Lore EA hellgate
Old English hellegat/hellegeat "the entrance to Hell"
hell is from Old English hel, helle "nether world, abode of the dead, infernal regions"
Proto-Germanic *haljō "concealed place, netherworld"
"Thine loves the same world that mine hates; / Thy heaven doors are my hell gates."
"The Everlasting Gospel"
“Facilis descensus Averno:
Noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis;
Sed revocare gradium superasque evadere ad auras,
Hoc opus, hic labor est.”
(“The gates of Hell are open night and day;
Smooth the descent, and easy is the way:
But to return, and view the cheerful skies,
In this task and mighty labor lies.”)
"The Aeneid"
Another translation:
“Easy is the way down to the Underworld: by night and by day dark Hades' door stands open; but to retrace one's steps and to make a way out to the upper air, that's the task, that is the labour.”
ianua ditis also means "the doors of the rich"
| ~☉~ | lucid definition; added layer of lucidity, or aethereal context |
| ⚜ | classic definition |
| ☣ | artificium definition; usually words which have undergone a warped evolution, or a complete perversion of the original sense |