God's Blog: Go to Hel

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Here's a quote from Fyodor Dostoevsky to start things off right: Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.

Friday, June 6, 2008

Go to Hel

Hel is different from Hell

(Although the word hell may have come from the Hel of Norse pagan mythology: The old Old Norse word Hel derives from Proto-Germanic *khalija, which means "one who covers up or hides something", which itself derives from Proto-Indo-European *kel-, meaning "conceal". The term may have later spawned the English word Hell. Related terms are Old Frisian, helle, German Hölle and Gothic halja).

So Hell is Hel-spawn.
I know a Kell and a Holly.
How does it feel, to be on your own...with no secrets to conceal?

Go to Hel! (Wikipedia)
Hel is also the female giantess who rules Hel, the underworld.
-Norwegian and Swedish helvete "hell" come from Old Norse helviti, hel (the location) + viti "punishment". Helvetia is a genus of jumping spiders, and an ancient region of Europe. Helvetia corresponded roughly to the western part of modern Switzerland, and the name is still used poetically. There is a New Helvetia in California.