Hollow Earth

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Date : 2016

There are countless stories about the hollow earths, tales of underworld societies, conspiracy theories, secret cults (like the early christians in ancient Rome) or places where the dead souls live, like the Hades in classic mythology or Hell as Dante imagined in his “Divine Comedy”.
This dantesque reference was probably the strongest influence. A hollow underground where the souls of the condemned are suffering for their past sins, punished by evil entities and other mythological figures, all surrounded by a symbolic /metaphoric atmosphere of awe.
We can see the connection at the design’s main shape, a triangle, related to some maps of Inferno and their circles/levels, funnelling all the way down to Lucifer, king of Hell. This
idea of a subterranean realm is also held by the tibetan buddhism. The place of Yama (lord of Death) is someway linked to Dante’s voyage in underworld.

Some other theories of a Hollow Earth are proposed by folklore tales and literary “subterranean fiction”. Like “the Journey to the Center of the Earth” by Jules Verne we also find the mythic idea of a city built in the Earth’s Core – “Agartha”.
Edmond Halley, the astronomer/geophysicist (1656-1742) talks about the hypothesis of the Earth with a hollow shell with 800 km thick, two inner concentric shells and an innermost core.

A free-pass to the underworld

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