Hell-Realm

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Noun[edit]

Hell-Realm (plural Hell-Realms)

  1. A hellish dimension.
    • 1992, The Theosophist - Volume 113, page 289:
      Of the six realms, three are reckoned as unfortunate: the Hell-Realm for people who hate; the Realm of Hungry Ghosts (or Pretas) for those who are greedy or lustful; and the Realm of Animals for the ignorant.
    • 1996, John E. Nelson, Andrea Nelson, Sacred Sorrows: Embracing and Transforming Depression, page 35:
      This Hell-realm is bankrupt of feeling, empty of meaning.
    • 2014, Elizabeth Riebe, Laurie Stimpson, A New Sensation: Truth and Teachings from Jesus Christ, page 12:
      Heaven does have many different levels, of course. As does Hell-Realm.
    • 2018, M Chabin, “Horror and the Big Elsewhere: Traumatic Enjoyment in Event Horizon and True Detective”, in Clues, volume 36, number 2:
      […] opens a central symbolic paradox of the film—that a ship (body) inscribed with the Christian symbolic order, the Law of the Father, would serve as a gateway to a quasi–Hell-Realm of […]
    • 2020, T Pak, “Picturing the Divine Agents of Food Bestowal: The Seven Buddhas in the Sweet-Dew Painting of the Chosŏn Period, 1392-1910”, in Korean Journal of Art History:
      In Chiokkye purhwa 地獄系 佛畵 [Hell-Realm Painting], edited by An Kwisuk, Kim Chŏnghŭi, and Yu Mari, 113-180.
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