24-07-2016, 06:46 AM
Apropos of nothing, I'd like to point out that there is a generic similarity between the nine maps and the nine circles of Hell from Dante.
We start off by looking at the T-O map, which has a road from Europe (Christian) into the plains, whilst the roads from Asia and Africa sweep onto the shores of limbo (behind those walls).
We can then go through the remaining circles, which bear a similarity to the attributes of each circle, until we reach the central circle dominated by the giants, although there isn't an obvious central figure of Satan.
Quite an in-depth paper could be written on this if I had the time.
Mind you, this could just go to show that you can prove anything you want to.
We start off by looking at the T-O map, which has a road from Europe (Christian) into the plains, whilst the roads from Asia and Africa sweep onto the shores of limbo (behind those walls).
We can then go through the remaining circles, which bear a similarity to the attributes of each circle, until we reach the central circle dominated by the giants, although there isn't an obvious central figure of Satan.
Quite an in-depth paper could be written on this if I had the time.
Mind you, this could just go to show that you can prove anything you want to.