Along with a elderly, demonic male companion she punishes a thief, ties his head to his feet, strips him of his clothes and send him off to his final judgement. The deity that saves the souls of babies from eternal damnation.ĭatsueba (奪衣婆)? So what do we know about the Old Hag of Hell?ĭatsueba is first mentioned in a spurious Chinese sutra which deals with Bodhisattva Jizō and the Ten Kings of Hell. On the other side of the river is the figure of Jizō, In the middle-ground is a scene from the Blood Hell Pool.īehind that is the figure of Datsueba holding theĬlothes and/or skins of souls condemned to Hell. I mean… that has got to hurt… a lot.īelow is a detail from the right-hand panel showing souls being boiled (‘ adead‘ – not really a word, but I just thought of it and thought it would fit well here) and in the upper right souls forced to climb a mountain of sharpened knife blades or needles, Hariyama (針山).ĭetail from the right panel showing souls being forced to climbĭetail from the left panel from the collection of the British Museum. Sandwiched between those rocks you can make out the legs of many of those poor souls who have merited being squished between them. If you look closely at the oxidized brownish and green demons in the lower center you will see them applying an instrument of torture – an iron clamping system placed over two large, flattened rocks. I am showing you a larger representation of that section of the triptych so you will be better able to see the details. Scenes of Heaven and Hell by Kuniyoshi from the 1830sĬenter panel of the Kuniyoshi triptych seen above. Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs The Apostle Paul, he who builds a church will “ His idea was build a church in Pokrovskoe,įor, as Rasputin wrote, echoing the words of
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