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Sam Hill is an American English slang phrase, a euphemism or minced oath for "the devil " or "hell" personified (as in, "What in the Sam Hill is that?").
the Utpala hell (the hell of the blue lotus), the Padma hell (the hell of the crimson lotus), the Kumuda hell (the hell of the scarlet lotus), the Pundarika (the hell of the white lotus). The first four names reflect the cries uttered by sufferers in these hells because of the intolerable cold.
"When Hell freezes over" and "on a cold day in Hell" are based on the understanding that Hell is eternally an extremely hot place. The "Twelfth of Never" will never come to pass. A song of the same name was written by Johnny Mathis. "On Tibb's Eve" refers to the saint's day of a saint who never existed.
Naraka (Sanskrit: नरक; Pali: 𑀦𑀺𑀭𑀬 Niraya) is a term in Buddhist cosmology usually referred to in English as "hell" (or "hell realm") or "purgatory". The Narakas of Buddhism are closely related to Diyu, the hell in Chinese mythology.
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes was an American soul and R&B vocal group. One of the most popular Philadelphia soul groups of the 1970s, the group's repertoire included soul, R&B, doo-wop, and disco. Founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the middle of the 1950s as The Charlemagnes, the group is most noted for several hits on Gamble and Huff ...
Abraham Sapien, born Langdon Everett Caul, is a fictional character in the comic book series Hellboy, created by Mike Mignola.He takes his name from "Ichthyo sapien", the fanciful species designation chosen for him by his colleagues in the 19th-century Oannes Club, and from Abraham Lincoln, on whose assassination date the Oannes Club abandoned Abe's body in a suspended animation tank beneath a ...
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is a 2017 action-adventure game developed and published by Ninja Theory.Set in a dark fantasy world inspired by Norse mythology and Celtic culture, the game follows Senua, a Pict warrior who must make her way to Helheim by defeating otherworldly entities and facing their challenges, in order to rescue the soul of her dead lover from the goddess Hela.
The Garden of Earthly Delights ( Dutch: De tuin der lusten, lit. 'The garden of lusts') is the modern title [a] given to a triptych oil painting on oak panel painted by the Early Netherlandish master Hieronymus Bosch, between 1490 and 1510, when Bosch was between 40 and 60 years old. [1] It has been housed in the Museo del Prado in Madrid ...
The Valley of Hinnom, Gehinnom ( Hebrew: גֵּיא בֶן־הִנֹּם, romanized : Gēʾ ḇen-Hīnnōm, or גֵי־הִנֹּם, Gē Hīnnōm) or Gehenna ( / ɡɪˈhɛnə / ghi-HEN-ə; Ancient Greek: Γέεννα, romanized : Géenna ), also known as Wadi el-Rababa ( Arabic: وادي الربابة, romanized : Wādī l-Rabāba, lit.
Etymology. The Old Norse name Hel is identical to the name of the location over which she rules. It stems from the Proto-Germanic feminine noun *haljō-'concealed place, the underworld' (compare with Gothic halja, Old English hel or hell, Old Frisian helle, Old Saxon hellia, Old High German hella), itself a derivative of *helan-'to cover > conceal, hide' (compare with OE helan, OF hela, OS ...