A Digestive Hell

C.S. Lewis' "Screwtape Letters describe hell as ruthlessly competitive.  I think of scenes out of the manga "Devilman".

“Everyone wishes everyone else’s discrediting, demotion, and ruin; everyone is an expert in the confidential report, the pretended alliance, the stab in the back”. In Screwtape's hell, the devouring is literal and not metaphoric, as in our world of bureaucrats.

“To us a human is primarily food; our aim is the absorption of its will into ours, the increase of our own area of selfhood at its expense”. “Bring us back food or be food yourself”. Thus Lewis shows each stronger devil desiring to “suck the weaker into itself and permanently gorge its own being on the weaker’s outraged individuality,” and he says that Satan (“Our Father Below”) dreams “of the day when all shall be inside him and all that says ‘I’ can say it only through him”..

From C.S. Lewis' "Perelandra: ‘…it made little difference. There was, no doubt, a confusion of persons in damnation: what Pantheists falsely hoped of Heaven, bad men really received in Hell. They were melted down into their Master, as a lead soldier slips down and loses his shape in the ladle held over the gas ring. The question whether Satan, or one whom Satan has digested, is acting on any given occasion, has in the long run no clear significance.’

In "Perelandra" Weston's identity be absorbed into the Devil's. This is an interesting concept.

Wayne Barlow - known for a few things - among them being "Inferno" - an imagining of the demonology of the Grimoire of Honorius - Barlow has human souls as being the lowest order in the hierarchy of Hell. Human souls are also Hell's most important resource, "being easily twisted and reshaped by their masters into (among other things) beasts of burden, means of conveyance, war machines, and building materials."

 This image of Barlow's "Inferno" is reminiscent of Shamanic Dismemberment. This idea is fascinating - that the identity is torn asunder, yet conscious - that all that you know as you, is stripped from you.