getting nowhere...

The whole point of that 'circles of hell' post was that, I had a moment where I felt like I had been continually banging my head against something... I won't go into the details... and had a sudden association with the level in Hell where those particular damned are sentenced to pulling and pushing heavy stones around. The actual thought I'd had was of someone continually rolling a stone uphill. I was relating to that in particular at that time.

But, as it turns out, the fourth level of Hell (the one concerned with weights) in fact contains two groups of damned who crash giant weights against each other, over and over again, in some kind of tug-of-war in reverse, until such time as their final judgment comes, and this punishment is levied against those who are consumed with material acquisitions... not what I had in mind. I was thinking more of an existential kind of block-headedness so I was pretty far off the mark there...

I know there is a reference to eternally rolling a stone uphill as some form of punishment or self-punishment, but I am unable to recall where that seed in my mind was planted... somebody out there knows...

Anyway... I sort of digressed in that post about my dream and never really got to the point.

Interestingly enough, when I looked up the punishment with the stones, I came across a reference to snakes, whereby thieves are continually bitten by snakes as their damnation, interred all the way down (get ready for some participial phrases!)in the 8th level of Hell, in the 7th ditch in the City of Dis. I find interest in the relationship between those in level 4 who are materialists, and those in the 7th ditch, thieves, who it could be argued are also concerned with material possesions...

Sucks for them...