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The idea that Hell was hot comes from the fact that the sun was hot. In Egypt the sun is hot, a lot hotter than it is in other countries. In Egypt it is hot! They figured that when the sun goes down at night, it must also be hot while it is going through the Earth. So if you die and go into the Earth it must be hot. Of course, when volcanoes blow up hot stuff, that proves that the Earth is hot. So if you go into Hell and you die, you go to Hell, and it is hot. You go into the Earth, it is hot. Actually, the word Hell is Nordic and it was spelled Hel, not Hell. It meant a place where you bury something like a grave. If you bury something in a hole and cover it up, that is Hel, in the Scandinavian tongue. Therefore, if you put something over your head to cover it, that is a hel met. Because that is what hel meant, covering something up.
