Underworld

Meikai. 冥界 - (めいかい) “Inframundo, Infierno, Submundo, Hades, Jigoku, etc, etc, etc…”.冥 界 - (めいかい) "Underworld, Hell, Underworld, Hades, Jigoku, etc, etc, etc ...". According to Masami Kurumada, realm of the dead where souls are judged in different prisons. Is the habitat of all spectra including the Dark Lord Hades. As described on his sleeve Masami Kurumada and then adapted to Anime is composed of eight prisons, three valleys, ten pits and four areas. In addition it is also the passage to the Elysian Fields, where only the chosen by the gods can go.

The Meikai corresponds to the underworld, is something like Tartarus of Greek mythology, where it fell those who sinned during its existence. In the myths of the past, we talk often of hell and paradise. In Saint Seiya, the kingdom of the dead world presents itself as a gloomy and unhealthy (finally, is what we want ...) in particular as well in which the souls fall. The design of your tenants surplis also reinforces this idea, except the armor of Hades, that apart from the color, looks more like an angel (especially the wings). The Saint Seiya Meikai term simply means "Underworld" unlike the Greek underworld is broken down between Limbo, Tartarus and Elison, the underworld Meikai includes all that is shown in the manga, including Yomotsu Hirasaka, scene of the battle between Shiryu and Deathmask.

The underworld was created by Hades to forever punish humans for their crimes. No life is possible in hell without the eighth sense (or special devices), all these things normally fall under the control of Hades. The spectra are unaffected and may enter and leave at the discretion of Hades, at least not while Athena has been sealed and locked.

Hell's Gate


Before reaching the river Acheron is a large door that brings a message to those who enter the underworld. That message says: He should be between abandoning all hope. The large door is argo high stone decorated with 4 columns, two on each side of the entrance, and on top of the arch is the grim legend to anyone who wants to go to hell.

Acheron River
Acheron's Underworld in the end the rivers Phlegethon and Cocytus, considered this as an outgrowth of the same Styx. In the hell of Dante's Divine Comedy, the river Acheron is the edge of hell, in the Inferno. The river is a green moss and surrounded by those who fell into hell and can not cross the river by not having to pay for the ferryman, in its banks as it bottom. This place is guarded by the Spectre of Acheron Celeste Star Space.

First Prison: Limbo


It is a place where the Hall of Judgement. The damned who are judged and come the lies are discovered immediately. It is a huge palace with a long wide staircase ascends to a porch full of columns supporting a gable roof, all made of white stone, from the columns is a large wooden double doors and sides with large windows same design of the door. This place is guarded by Spectrum tap Celeste Star Value and Griffon Minos, Judge of the Dead.

The Dark Valley of the Wind
This site connects the 1st Prison underworld with the 2nd Prison. It consists of a bridge with two circular spaces on each end, which connects the first two prisons, the bridge is lined with simple stone columns in ruin. The damned here were once lovers in life and they suffer eternally in love and are thrasshed by the black winds of this area.

Second Prison: Gluttony


The entrance of this prison has a decorative Egyptian around you appreciate ruins, rocks and fallen columns, the entry itself is a high wall which is reached by a long narrow staircase to get to we can see the door to 4 huge statues of pharaohs sit. Here are punished the greedy who are hit by freezing rain and devoured by the terrible hell dog Cerberus. This place is guarded by the Sphinx of the spectrum of the Beast Celestial Star.

Flower Fields
It is a place in the underworld where they grow beautiful flowers, is a field of green grass and beautiful flowers of white, pink and yellow.

Third Prison: Greed
The cave is a dirt road flanked by two high walls of rock, petty and wasters are punished in this prison, they will roll weight stones eternally for their sins. This place is guarded by Golem Spectra Star Celeste Corner and Troll Spectrum Celeste Star of Defeat.

Fourth Prison: Anger


The Swamp of Darkness is in reality a large valley covered by dark mountains and bathed by the waters of the River Styx, in this prison punishes those who suffered from anger and despair. This place is guarded by the spectrum of Lycaon Phlegyas Celeste Star of Sin.

Fifth Prison: Heresy, The City of Dis
It is a land of small mountains of rock and covered with darkened tombs made of stone blocks where the heretics suffer forever in the fiery tombs. The City of Dis is really the stereotypical "fire and Brimstone" Hell.

Labyrinth of the Minotaur
After flaming out of the tombs is the labyrinth of the Minotaur, a knotted huge field stone walls where no one can find the exit. The site's entrance is guarded by the Ghost of the Scarab Mortal Celeste Star of ugliness.

Sixth Prison: Violence
The land is covered with volcanoes and barren plains, and underground river of lava running on this prison. It rains often called, there is a gap that is not water or lava, but of blood.This is designated for those who were violent and abused others through violence.

The Wood of Suicide
An infernal forest covers this region. The black and lifeless trees and the ground floor is red-hot, there is no recognizable landscape. This is the place of punishment for those who have committed suicide.

The Abominable Sands
Passing the gloomy forest of hell is a vast desert whose sands burn the skin to the bone, in those who were sexual predators is condemned to wander aimlessly while your feet are burned by the hot sand.

Great Waterfall Tears of Blood
The sixth prison ends with the great waterfall of blood, which feeds on the tears of all the deceased lying in the underworld. This large waterfall connects the 6 th 7 th prison with prison. At the top of the waterfall is the only tree in the underworld, one whose fruits are totally opposed to the minerals they are made Sapuris of the spectrum, Mokurenji furos tree are used in the rosary of 108 beads, seal where the souls of the Wraith to prevent resurrection.

The River Phlegethon
Moreover the big waterfall between 6th and 7th prison is the river Phlegethon, a river of boiling blood. It is a tributary of the Acheron. For the blood boils, containing the souls of tyrants and murderers, thieves and those guilty of sins related to violence toward peers.

Seventh Prison: Fraud
It's the infernal prison greatest of all; here lies a bed of ferruginous colored stone.In this plain centrote opens a hole wide enough and deep. The space between the dura and the well is nearly round and is divided into 10 Bolgia or enclosures like many pits. According to their deeds in the world, sinners fall into one of the 10 graves there. In the first pit, hit with whips beings who engage in prostitution. In the second pit, the kneeling are sunk in excrement.In the third pit Popes who were corrupt are thrusted head first into a furnace. The next bad pope that dies is crammed down the same furnace, forcing the last victim further down. The fourth hole, false preachers were unable to put two heads your way. The fifth hole corrupt politicians, will be put into boiling tar and will be tapped throughout the body by demons. The sixth hole, the hypocrites will be forced to walk around wearing long cloaks of lead. The seventh hole is reserved for thieves who are bitten by snakes. In the eighth pit burn the souls of the conspirators. In the ninth pit, punish those that generated discord, they are infinitely short. The last hole, the tenth, are counterfeiters, they rot and their bodies will be infested with diseases, despair alone makes you strip their flesh.

Eighth Prison: Treachery
Also known as Lake Cocytus, this part of hell is a vast plain of snow and icy winds which punish the damned who conspired against the gods in life. This place is guarded by the Harpy spectrum Celeste Star's Lament.

Caina: Temple of Radamanthys
Caina is the first field in the frozen hell of Cocytos, this temple belongs to the spectrum Wyvern Celeste Star Fury and Judge of Hell. It is a temple or mansion, possibly home of the spectrum, a quadrangular building with 4 columns rounded at each end, small steps around the entire structure, both columns as the center of the building have domes adorned with statues of Wyvern, mythological creature which is based Surplice the Judge of Hell.

Antenora: Temple Aiacos
Antenora is the second area of ​​ice in hell, this temple belongs to the spectrum Garuda Celeste Star Advantage and one of the three judges of Hell. The temple has a polygonal base on which rises a circular building whose circumference has columns interspersed by two walls, holding broad and flat roof of a game which emerge over columns arranged in circles, leaving a roof again but this time holding the figure of Garuda, the animal in which is based Surplice the judge.

Ptolemeia: Temple of Minos
Ptolemeia is the third area of ​​Cocytos, the guardian is the spectrum tap Celeste Star Value and Judge of Hell. The temple sits atop a high stone base of which is accessed via stairs, its sides are two statues of cranes with their wings open. The building is surrounded by columns supporting the roof, which in its central part is gabled sides and is particularly smooth.

Pandora Judecca: Hades and Pandora's Apartments


Judecca is the last of the circles of hell frozen. Reside in Hades, god of the Underworld and Pandora, commander of the army of Wraith. The palace is a building of God in the purest Greek style, it is a central circular structure and side two homers structures that form a single building, the entire building is surrounded by tall columns puffs, most of them aya stone walls cover the building, a huge wooden door stands at the center of the temple leading to the chambers of the lord of the underworld, inside a large room at the bottom containing a large and high ladder to the throne of God behind him is a curtain covering the Western Wall, the entrance to the Elysian Fields, the paradise reserved for the gods and their protégés. The Wailing Wall is a huge wall made of dark colored rock carved in high relief with the faces of two winged characters face, possibly the Twin Gods, Hypnos and Thanatos, who inhabit the Elysian Fields, meadows of grass and beautiful flowers Gods reside where they give away their music to the nymphs, a place that knows no violence or blood. There in the depths of Hades paradise save valuable body that was kept from the mythological age after suffering a scratch by the Holy Pegasus.