"as they wallowed in blood during their lives, so they are immersed in the boiling blood forever, each according to the degree of his guilt"

Inspired by Dante Alighieri's epic poem "Divine Comedy"

Phlegethon is a river of boiling blood and fire in the first round of the seventh circle of Dantes Inferno. Where the murderers, war-makers, plunderers, and tyrants are immersed.