Sara begins to notice that her mother is not behaving in the usual way. Maybe it's because of the change of city. The weather, the local people and missing her friends could be the causes.

Sara discovered that her mother went to the bathroom and left the door open... After a while she passed by and saw her bent over with her hand in the basin and circling in the water... Sara yelled: --- What? Mom, what are you doing?

She didn't answer anything and her vision was lost... Sara was very worried. He carried her to the bed after having cleaned her of the excrement.

As she walked away from her, she heard her say, "That's nine circles!"

She turned and asked him on the subject, if she answered now...

--The nine Dantesque circles daughter...

--Are you reading or what?

--No daughter, it was just a dream with a very handsome man who taught me many things...

Tell me mom...

-There was no answer, she fell asleep.

Sara began to read about the Dantean Circles.

The Divine Comedy, written between 1304 and 1321, is a poem divided into three parts that recounts the journey of the Pilgrim, Dante's alter ego, through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise, accompanied by Virgil and Beatriz. The work is in turn divided into songs and is full of symbolism and allegories of religious themes such as salvation, divine love and Christian ethics.

In the first of the three canticles, commonly known as Dante's Inferno, the Pilgrim is led by the spirit of the poet Virgil through Hell. Through 33 songs, this section describes the punishments that sinners receive. According to Dante's work, hell is divided into nine circles, each contained within the other.

Each one corresponds to a punishment according to the type of sin. These are the circles of hell from The Divine Comedy. First Circle (Limbo) It is the largest circle of hell. Here lie the virtuous pagans and the people who were good but who, because they were not baptized, cannot enter heaven. Dante describes it as a place with meadows and castles. Punishment: Feeling never satisfied to know God. Illustrious characters: Homer, Aristotle and Plato, Averroes. Second circle Here is the door to the true hell, where newcomers are judged. In the second circle are the people who in life allowed themselves to be carried away by lust. Punishment: a strong wind that blows relentlessly and throws the inhabitants of this circle to the ground and walls. Illustrious characters: Achilles, Tristan, Paris, Cleopatra, Helena. Third Circle Here those who sinned in gluttony are punished. Punishment: A heavy rain mixed with hail falls on the sinners. Hades' monster, Cerberus, tears apart those who inhabit this third circle. Illustrious Personages: Ciacco Fourth Circle The fourth circle is inhabited by those who appreciated and accumulated many material goods. There are also those who wasted a lot. Punishment: Pushing large, heavy objects around the circle and constantly bumping into other groups. Fifth circle It is a lagoon where angry people and lazy people dwell. Punishment: The angry are immersed in the mud of their anger, condemned to hit each other. Sloths drown. Illustrious Personages: Filippo Argenti Sixth Circle It is located within the walls of the city of Doti, watched over by a multitude of devils and by the furies Magera, Alecto and Tisiphone, spirits of revenge. Heretics are punished, those who persist in violating the dogmas and the authority of the Church. Punishment: The sinners of this circle are doomed to lie in uncovered graves. Illustrious characters: Farinata degli Uberti, Cavalcante. Seventh circle Guarded by a minotaur, from this circle are the sinners who gave themselves up to malice. It is divided into three rings: murderers and criminals; of those who are violent against themselves; and of the blasphemers, sodomites and usurers. Punishment: The sinners of the first ring are drowned in a river of boiling blood; those of the second are turned into trees that are pecked and torn by harpies; those of the third are in a burning desert with a shower of flames. Illustrious people: Brunetto Lattini, Jacopo Rusticucci. Eighth circle Here sins related to fraud and treason are punished. This circle is reached by descending from a large cliff guarded by a three-headed winged monster.

According to the level of fraud, the sinners are accommodated in ten enclosures. Punishment: varies according to the venues, most include torture with fire. Illustrious characters: Ulysses, Diomedes, Guido da Montefeltro. Ninth circle It is surrounded by biblical giants. Here lie the traitors and they are accompanied by Lucifer himself. The ninth and last circle is divided into four rounds and in the center is Satan, condemned for betraying God.

Sara was very worried, was it a haunted house?

What were they inhabiting?

Her mother was a very normal person. She has a very cheerful character and healthy habits.

Who was that man she was talking about? Tomorrow he would ask her again when she was calmer...

It was about the circles of hell and her mother made circles in that filthy water. She was very neat. It was not explained why...

Hell is a huge conical valley and is divided into nine levels or circles, each deeper and narrower than the last. To reach it you have to cross the river Aqueronte, and the souls do it in Charon's boat.

According to Dante's work, hell is divided into nine circles, each contained within the other. Each one corresponds to a punishment according to the type of sin. These are the circles of hell from The Divine Comedy

In love alone. Crazy about Beatriz Portinari, whom he idealized as the most marvelous of women. Dante's love for Beatriz may have started when she was nine years old at most and he had been an adult for some time. When the young woman came of age, he saw her again, and her obsession continued, but she died…