The Roman Portal To Hell #shorts

There is a doorway in modern Turkey that if you were to walk through it, you would end up dead. Thousands of years ago in the world of ancient Greece, it was considered a literal gateway to the depths of hell. Anyone who got too close to the portal would die, and anyone who wandered through it was never seen again. It was so convincingly evil and so obviously dangerous that nobody in the ancient world had any doubt it led directly down to Hades.
In fact, it became a great place of sacrifice and ritual. Priests learned exactly how close they could stand to the doors without dying, and they would sacrifice animals to the lord of the underworld – Hades in the days of the Greeks and then Pluto in the days of the Romans.

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[arnragnarson]

I wonder who drew the short straw to decide who got to see how close you could get to before you met hades

[duaneburrisate]

Modern science? Dang a canary could have told you it ain't safe.

[TheTwon]

Where is the door?
I want to explore.

[jamesmonroe]

Islam 7, very interesting, Brother Monroe Dey El Bey 7 MOORISH EMPIRE CHEROKEE.

[nekomataumbreon]

Even though hell wasn't a concept until sometime after Jesus died.

[thebleaknarratives]

...wait, what? If having a close proximity to it is fatal how tf did anyone know it led to hell? This doesn't pass the sniff test. Just like all of the rest of the stuff we tell each other.

[grapeape]

Why? Because the cave admitts poisonous gases naturally❤
Often, they would sacrifice animals and because gas is heavier-than-air, the priest would walk along chanting as the poor critter succumbs to the gases😔❤️‍🩹