The very center and bottom of Hell, trapped in the ice at the waist, howls Satan himself. He is Lucifer, The Devil, Dis, the Father of Lies, and here he's encased in an eternally frozen tomb, powerless. In the medieval view, Satan is not running amock in our lives, causing chaos on earth, tempting us to evil--the souls in Hell have freely chosen Sin, Hell, and Death of thier own accord.
Satan is the symbol of all of Hell and of all that is evil. He betrayed God himself and waged a war in Heaven. Since God is the Almighty, Satan lost and he and all his followers were cast down into this forsaken place forever. Satan had no more power then, while in Heaven, he was an angel of the Lord. Therefore, Satan is not opposite to God (that would assume he has his own power); Satan is opposite of Michael the Archangel.
Now, Satan is no longer a beautiful angel, but a horrific mockery of everything that is sacred. He has three faces, mocking the Holy Trinity. He has six wings, the form of a bat's wings. He has six eyes, and three chins. Set these numbers side by side and you get 666.
In each of his mouths, Satan chews endlessly on a sinner--three in all. On one side, Brutus is the sinner; on the opposite side is Cassius. These are the two men who betrayed and killed Julius Caesar.
In the middle mouth, Satan chews on one more sinner, Judas Iscariot--the man who betrayed Jesus.
As Satan flaps his wings, in a futile attempt to escape, the wind he produces only freezes the ice around him more, trapping him worse and worse for all time.
Dante's Inferno
“One of the most prominent icons of modern day Christianity, the Crocoduck is capable of dispelling all arguments in favor of Atheism and Darwinism simply by not existing. Its sworn enemy is the platypus, which, in harsh contrast, is capable of proving god does not exist by existing.”
I tried to tell you that on the way down here. I assumed you knew something I didn't.
