Someone here has to speak latin i know yall are nerds

  • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    In this depiction, Satan's crotch is at the center of the planet (the Latin label is "Center of World)". Dante and Vergil climb down Satan's torso and (due to the reversal of gravity relative to Satan's body) up Satan's legs to reach Purgatorio, which is on the opposite side of the planet from the 9th Circle.

      • TerminalEncounter [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        At the end of the Divine Comedy (spoilers lol) it is revealed that the Empyrean and God are ultimately the primum mobile that imparts motion to the rest of the cosmos. When Dante looks back, he sees that it is actually Earth that is flung out to the outer edges of the universe and God is at the center of the universe - this is similar to a geometric transformation called a circle inversion, which is interesting because inversive geometry wasn't discovered until the early 19th century. Satan was therefore cast as far as possible away from heaven, literally the outer edges of the universe and ultimately his junk is the the point at infinity.

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Yeah, though Satan himself also revolves at the same rate because he is embedded in the ground.