The Gates of Hell.
The Gates of Hell (or Gate), as obvious by its name, is one of the gateways to Hell itself. It is where the souls of the damned are led during their time in Purgatory and when they have committed sins during their life in the human world.
Description[]
The Gates of Hell are one of the primary methods utilized by a demon to venture out of the Inferno and into the mortal realm. When the Gate is open, it does not lead directly into Hell, but rather the bridge to Limbo, where it is there that Mot, the Hellmouth, is tasked with being the gatekeeper. It is possible that humans can travel to the gate by astral means.
It is said that Mot is inextricably linked with the Gates of Hell, to where his very maw, famously known as the Hellmouth, can lead to the depths of the Abyss as well. In legend, Mot's own body serves as its own realm of Hell and preys upon souls that attempt to escape from the Inferno, devouring them and sucking them inside his stomach, where they are forever to be burned in the flames of his body.
Overview[]
It is unknown how the first Gate of Hell came to be nor who built it although signs point it to Sin who, alongside Death, was the first gatekeeper of Hell. When Satan convinced Sin to abandon her duty as she was not directly a creation of God thus should not be obedient to him, the position of gatekeeper was given to Mot, a Canaanite god who symbolized as the Hellmouth by medieval Christians and theologians.
According to the Codex Gigas, the first Gate that was used by Satan and Lucifer is the true and original Gate and was self-built with all the woes and wickedness of mankind. It is the one Gate that is completely closed off to demons and other hellish spirits as it is strictly for mortal souls that are brought before the infernal doors and condemned to be eternally damned in the fires of Hell. Ornias claims that Mulciber used the material of the original Gate to graft the Seven Gates of Hell that would be used by the Seven Kings to conquer the human world. This was Mundus' way of bypassing the the sole function intended for the original Gate.
