Lesser Secrets, by hollow mirror

Lesser Secrets

by hollow mirror

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	1.	Three of Swords (I could've found you) 21:16
	2.	Eight of Wands (Thunder without warning) 17:52

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The Buddha told the bhikṣus, There are 8,000 continents surrounding the four continents [on earth]. There is, moreover, a great sea surrounding those 8,000 continents. There is, moreover, a great diamond mountain range encircling that great sea. Beyond this great diamond mountain range is yet another great diamond mountain range. And between the two mountain ranges lies darkness. The sun and moon in the divine sky with their great power are unable to reach that [darkness] with their light. In [that space between the two diamond mountain ranges] there are eight major hells. Along with each major hell are sixteen smaller hells.

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The first major hell is called Thoughts. The second is called Black Rope. The third is called Crushing. The fourth is called Moaning. The fifth is called Great Moaning. The sixth is called Burning. The seventh is called Great Burning. The eighth is called Unremitting. The Hell of Thoughts contains sixteen smaller hells. The smaller hells are 500 square yojana in area. The first small hell is called Black Sand. The second hell is called Boiling Excrement. The third is called Five Hundred Nails. The fourth is called Hunger. The fifth is called Thirst. The sixth is called Single Copper Cauldron. The seventh is called Many Copper Cauldrons. The eighth is called Stone Pestle. The ninth is called Pus and Blood. The tenth is called Measuring Fire. The eleventh is called Ash River. The twelfth is called Iron Pellets. The thirteenth is called Axes and Hatchets. The fourteenth is called Jackals and Wolves. The fifteenth is called Sword Cuts. The sixteenth is called Cold and Ice.

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Keep things precious to you close to your heart, so you may never lose them.

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released October 10, 2022

Music Octavia M. Sheffner, tenth month, AD 2022

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Keep it in your pocket, it could clarify your fate
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_Arcana

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Numerous Buddhist hell realms follow:

Cold Narakas

Arbuda (頞部陀), the "blister" Naraka, is a dark, frozen plain surrounded by icy mountains and continually swept by blizzards. Inhabitants of this world arise fully grown and abide lifelong naked and alone, while the cold raises blisters upon their bodies. The length of life in this Naraka is said to be the time it would take to empty a barrel of sesame seeds if one only took out a single seed every hundred years.[5] Life in this Naraka is 2×10^12 years long.
Nirarbuda (刺部陀), the "burst blister" Naraka, is even colder than Arbuda. There, the blisters burst open, leaving the beings' bodies covered with frozen blood and pus.[5] Life in this Naraka is 4×10^13 years long.
Aṭaṭa (頞听陀) is the "shivering" Naraka. There, beings shiver in the cold, making an aṭ-aṭ-aṭ sound with their mouths.[5] Life in this Naraka is 8×10^14 years long.
Hahava (臛臛婆;) is the "lamentation" Naraka. There, the beings lament in the cold, going haa, haa in pain.[5] Life in this Naraka is 1.6×10^16 years long.
Huhuva (虎々婆), the "chattering teeth" Naraka, is where beings shiver as their teeth chatter, making the sound hu, hu.[5] Life in this Naraka is 3.2×10^17 years long.
Utpala (嗢鉢羅) is the "blue lotus" Naraka. The intense cold there makes the skin turn blue like the colour of an utpala waterlily.[5] Life in this Naraka is 6.4×10^18 years long.
Padma (鉢特摩), the "lotus" Naraka, has blizzards that crack open frozen skin, leaving one raw and bloody. Life in this Naraka is 1.28×10^20 years long.
Mahāpadma (摩訶鉢特摩) is the "great lotus" Naraka. The entire body cracks into pieces and the internal organs are exposed to the cold, also cracking.[5] Life in this Naraka is 2.56×10^21 years long.

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Hot Narakas

Sañjīva (等活), the "reviving" Naraka, has ground made of hot iron heated by an immense fire. Beings in this Naraka appear fully grown, already in a state of fear and misery. As soon as the being begins to fear being harmed by others, their fellows appear and attack each other with iron claws and hell guards appear and attack the being with fiery weapons. As soon as the being experiences an unconsciousness like death, they are suddenly restored to full health and the attacks begin again. Other tortures experienced in this Naraka include: having molten metal dropped upon them, being sliced into pieces, and suffering from the heat of the iron ground.[5] Life in this Naraka is 1.62×10^12 years long.[6] It is said to be 1,000 yojanas beneath Jambudvīpa and 10,000 yojanas in each direction (a yojana being 7 miles, or 11 kilometres).[7]
Kālasūtra (黒縄), the "black thread" Naraka, includes the torments of Sañjīva. In addition, black lines are drawn upon the body, which hell guards use as guides to cut the beings with fiery saws and sharp axes.[5][7] Life in this Naraka is 1.296×10^13 years long.[6]
Saṃghāta (衆合), the "crushing" Naraka, is surrounded by huge masses of rock that smash together and crush the beings to a bloody jelly. When the rocks move apart again, life is restored to the being and the process starts again.[5] Life in this Naraka is 1.0368×10^14 years long.[6]
Raurava (叫喚), the "screaming" Naraka, is where beings run wildly about, looking for refuge from the burning ground.[5] When they find an apparent shelter, they are locked inside it as it blazes around them, while they scream inside. Life in this Naraka is 8.2944×10^14 years long.
Mahāraurava (大叫喚), the "great screaming" Naraka, is similar to Raurava.[7] Punishment here is for people who maintain their own body by hurting others. In this hell, ruru[clarification needed] animals known as kravyāda torment them and eat their flesh.[disputed – discuss] Life in this Naraka is 6.63552×10^15 years long.
Tapana (焦熱; 炎熱) is the "heating" Naraka, where hell guards impale beings on a fiery spear until flames issue from their noses and mouths.[5] Life in this Naraka is 5.308416×10^16 years long.
Pratāpana (大焦熱; 大炎熱), the "great heating" Naraka. The tortures here are similar to the Tapana Naraka, but the beings are pierced more bloodily with a trident.[5] Life in this Naraka is 4.2467328×10^17 years long. It is also said to last for the length of half an antarakalpa.
Avīci (阿鼻; 無間) is the "uninterrupted" Naraka. Beings are roasted in an immense blazing oven with terrible suffering.[5] Life in this Naraka is 3.39738624×10^18 years long. It is also said to last for the length of an antarakalpa.

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It's almost blackgaze.