The 136 Boiling Hells of Japan
<p><strong><em>Warning:</em></strong><em> I describe some Buddhist ideas of hell. Imagery can be disturbing to some.</em></p>
<p>Sulfuric fumes lay thick upon the senses. The smell of rotting eggs wrapped around my head in an intoxicating embrace.</p>
<p>Before me is a landscape of jagged rock, barren and dead. Steam rises from bubbling pools of yellow water, heated from the magma below the earth, for I am, in fact, standing on an active volcano.</p>
<p>Crows caw and flit around the ancient temple grounds in search of scraps. Blind priestesses go into ritualistic trances as they commune with the spirits of the dead.</p>
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