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A Hellmouth, or the jaws of Hell, is the entrance to
Hell envisaged as the gaping mouth of a huge monster, an image which
first appeared in Anglo-Saxon art, and then spread all over Europe. It
remained very common in depictions of the Last Judgment and Harrowing of
Hell until the end of the Middle Ages, and is still sometimes used
during the Renaissance and after. It enjoyed something of a revival in
polemical popular prints after the Protestant Reformation, when figures
from the opposite side would be shown disappearing into the mouth.
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notable late appearance is in the two versions of a painting by El Greco
of about 1578. Political cartoons still showed Napoleon leading his
troops into one. Medieval theatre often had a hellmouth prop or
mechanical device which was used to attempt to scare the audience by
vividly dramatizing an entrance to Hell. These seem often to have
featured a battlemented castle entrance, in painting usually associated
with Heaven.
The evil you see today is of old. In Nineveh, the gates to the palace were as such; Jonah was sent to condemn it, should they not repent. It is the same today - repent or suffer your due and righteous judgment.
It's time to make that choice. Not later, now.
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| Album cover: revealing coven parents offering their children to the fire. There is judgment upon you devils for this. |
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| Sanpaku eyes of the KILLER. And since 1935. |
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| The changing face of the damned...same as it ever was. |
