Tag Archives: divine comedy

The Academic Abyss

Posted on April 16, 2026 by Nathan

Katabasis, by R.F. Kuang – The title is an ancient Greek term for a journey to the underworld, and that is what happens in this book. It’s set in a world where magic is a respected academic discipline, and the … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Book Reviews, Chinese, Christianity, Education, Greek Mythology, Hinduism, Humor, Magic, Maps, Monsters, Mythology, Relationships, Religion, Roman, Technology | Tagged a closed and common orbit, artificial intelligence, bards, becky chambers, brigands and breadknives, carson lowmiller, computers, dante alighieri, divine comedy, dwarves, elves, goblins, hell, inferno, katabasis, meng po, orcs, r.f. kuang, rattkins, s.e. davidson, swords, the long way to a small angry planet, travis baldree, underworld, wayfarers, weapons, yama | 1 Comment

Psaro Gets Pstarted

Posted on May 16, 2024 by Nathan

Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince – One reason I was anxious to play Chapter 6 of Dragon Quest IV is that this game kind of follows up on it, with the same writer being involved. Here, you play as Psaro, … Continue reading →

Posted in Dragon Quest, Focus on the Foes, Food, Magic, Monsters, Music, Relationships, Video Games | Tagged aamon, dante alighieri, demons, diabolic hall, divine comedy, dragon quest iv, dragon quest monsters, dragon quest monsters the dark prince, dragons, dwarves, elves, endor, general chayne, heaven, hell, inferno, monty the monster monitor, nadiria, psaro, ragnar mcryan, randolpho the tyrant, reproduction, rosehill, sparkie, synthesis, toilen trubble, zangiel the omniarch, zenith dragon | 1 Comment

You’ve Got a Fiend in Me

Posted on March 17, 2024 by Nathan

I wrote a bit about the Four Fiends from Final Fantasy before, but I’ve since thought of more to say. Four of the main bosses in the first games, they’re associated with the four classical elements, and are causing the destruction … Continue reading →

Posted in Babylonian, Buddhism, Comics, Dragon Quest, Fairy Tales, Final Fantasy, Focus on the Foes, Games, Gender, Greek Mythology, Hinduism, Humor, Judaism, Language, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Religion, Technology, Video Games, Zoroastrianism | Tagged 8-bit theater, ahriman, archfiends, bahamut, baramos, barbariccia, cagnazzo, cecil harvey, cerberus, chaos, classical elements, dante alighieri, demons, dhuran, dinosaurs, divine comedy, dragon quest ii, dragon quest iii, dragon quest vi, dragons, dualhead hydra, dungeons and dragons, dwarves, echidna, elemental fiends, enuma elish, excalibur, final fantasy iii, final fantasy iv, final fantasy iv the after years, final fantasy ix, final fantasy mystic quest, final fantasy stranger of paradise, final fantasy vi, flamerus rex, four fiends, four heavenly kings, game boy advance, gardner fox, garland, gary gygax, general beatrix, golbez, golems, guardians of terra, gutsco, hans christian andersen, hydra, ice golem, inferno, kaimeiji yuu, kain highwind, kali, kary, kingdom of baron, kraken, kuja, land turtle, lich, light warriors, lilith, lufenia, malebranche, mara, marduk, marilith, mermaids, mortamor, mount ordeals, nagas, orthros, pazuzu, phylactery, quena quen, ramayana, robots, rubicante, salamanders, scarmiglione, siddhartha gautama, skullrus rex, stone golem, tataka, the little mermaid, the sword of the sorcerer, tiamat, time loops, titans, twinhead wyvern, two-headed dragon, ultros, vile four, wyverns, yang fang leiden, zidane tribal, zoma, zuh | 4 Comments

Cities of the Damned

Posted on April 16, 2023 by Nathan

The idea of the world of the dead as a physical place is fascinating to me, probably at least partially because I love maps. Whether people in ancient times who wrote about such things genuinely believed that the Underworld had … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Etymology, Final Fantasy, Greek Mythology, Language, Maps, Monsters, Mythology, Poetry, Religion, Roman, Video Games | Tagged aeneas, aeneid, afterlife, angels, bible, dante alighieri, demons, dis, divine comedy, emperor mateus, erinyes, final fantasy ii, final fantasy ix, final fantasy xiv, furies, garland, gorgons, hades, hell, hephaestus, inferno, john milton, lucifer, mammon, medusa, mulciber, mysidia, pandemonium, paradise lost, revelation, river styx, satan, stygian council, ultima, underworld, virgil | Leave a comment

These Judges Are Such Cretans

Posted on April 12, 2023 by Nathan

When the world of the dead is presented as a place of reward or punishment, as has become pretty standard, that generally means that someone has to decide who goes where. The Underworld of Greek mythology came to have three … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Greek Mythology, Monsters, Mythology, Poetry, Roman, Video Games | Tagged achilles, aegina, aeneid, alcmene, androgeos, ants, apollo, apollodorus, arabian nights, aristophanes, bulls, cadmus, cerberus, cyclopes, daedalus, dante alighieri, divine comedy, eleusinian mysteries, elysian fields, europa, fortunate isles, hades, helios, hell, hera, hercules, inferno, king aeacus of aegina, king aeetes of colchis, king asterion of crete, king minos of crete, kronos, law, minotaur, myrmidons, nymphs, odysseus, odyssey, pasiphae, patroclus, peleus, plato, polyphemus, poseidon, rhadamanthus, sarpedon, sinbad the sailor, the frogs, theseus, triptolemus, trojan war, underworld, virgil, zeus, zork | 1 Comment

Put a Zork in It

Posted on February 3, 2023 by Nathan

I remember seeing magazine ads for Zork and other text-based adventure games when I was a kid, and thought they seemed pretty fascinating. I never actually got to play any of them at the time, though. I don’t think they … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Douglas Adams, Games, Greek Mythology, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Humor, J.R.R. Tolkien, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Magic, Maps, Monsters, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Video Games, William Shakespeare | Tagged alice's adventures in wonderland, bats, cassius, colossal cave adventure, cyclops, dante alighieri, divine comedy, don woods, dungeons, dungeons and dragons, flatheads, glinda of oz, great underground empire, grues, hades, hell, hunt the wumpus, inferno, infocom, jack vance, julius caesar, lucien kaine, odysseus, odyssey, polyphemus, swords, the dying earth, the zork anthology, weapons, will crowther, wizards, zork, zork i, zork ii | 7 Comments

The Fellowship of Hell Can’t Help You Now

Posted on February 2, 2021 by Nathan

The History of Hell, by Alice K. Turner – Erica Olivera recommended this book to me, and I quite liked it. In a casual style, it explores the concept of Hell throughout history, in both religion and popular culture. It … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Art, Babylonian, Book Reviews, British, Catholicism, Christianity, Egyptian, Greek Mythology, History, Humor, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy, Plays, Poetry, Religion | Tagged abraham, alice k. turner, angels, bible, dante alighieri, demons, dis, divine comedy, hades, heaven, hell, hellmouths, hours of catherine of cleves, inanna, inferno, jesuits, jesus, john milton, orpheus, pandemonium, parables, paradise lost, purgatory, satan, tartarus, the history of hell, titans, tobias swinden, virgin mary | 4 Comments

Hell No, We Won’t Go!

Posted on September 1, 2020 by Nathan

I don’t believe in an afterlife, but I can see the appeal of it, because I’m kind of afraid of no longer existing. I think it’s what’s going to happen, and I won’t care afterwards, but it bothers me on … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Comics, Fairy Tales, Greek Mythology, Humor, Judaism, Mythology, Norse, Philosophy, Religion | Tagged afterlife, bible, charles gounod, dante alighieri, divine comedy, eternity, faust, folklore, gehenna, hades, heaven, hel, hell, henrik ibsen, inferno, jack o' lantern, jesus, john milton, lobo, mephistopheles, paradise lost, peer gynt, plains of asphodel, satan, sheol, stingy jack, tantalus, tartarus | Leave a comment

I Have the Power!

Posted on August 10, 2019 by Nathan

Hell’s Super, by Mark Cain – This comedic look at the popular conception of Hell is narrated by Steve Minion, a rich guy in life who became the superintendent in Hell, conscripted to fix everything that breaks. The fact that … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Cartoons, Celebrities, History, Humor, Mythology, Oz, Religion, Star Trek, Television | Tagged andy mangels, bill cosby, captain marvel, creating the filmation generation, divine comedy, fat albert, filmation, florence nightingale, ghostbusters, he-man, hell, hell's super, henry ford, inferno, jason of star command, journey back to oz, lou scheimer, mark cain, masters of the universe, nikola tesla, orko, orson welles, ozcon international, shazam, she=ra, sid haig, skeletor, superman, the real ghostbusters, the three stooges, thomas edison | 1 Comment

Hey, Let’s Do the Limbo Rock

Posted on March 19, 2015 by Nathan

There’s something I’ve always liked about the word “Limbo,” which has entered into popular usage as meaning a state where nothing can happen until certain conditions are met. It comes from the Latin limbus, meaning an edge or border. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Catholicism, Christianity, Comics, Etymology, Games, Greek Mythology, Mythology, Oz, Places, Religion, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Television | Tagged allison mcbain, baptism, cory in oz, dante alighieri, divine comedy, doctor who, dungeons and dragons, elysian fields, endless quest, hell, inferno, jesus, limbo, marvel comics, nowhere, revenge of the rainbow dragons, shredder, splinter | 1 Comment

Tag Archives: divine comedy

The Academic Abyss

Psaro Gets Pstarted

You’ve Got a Fiend in Me

Cities of the Damned

These Judges Are Such Cretans

Put a Zork in It

The Fellowship of Hell Can’t Help You Now

Hell No, We Won’t Go!

I Have the Power!

Hey, Let’s Do the Limbo Rock

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