Never. It means never, as in Hell is supernaturally hot for eternity. There is never going to be a cold snap in Gehenna. Well, maybe in Gehenna but not Hades… or Tartarus or something. You see the problem with that. There are a dozen names because we’ve adopted them pel-hel from any culture which punishes the dead for going against the fashion of the dei.
Also, I’d like to take this time to point out that even fictional place names are capitalized. It’s not “oz,” neither is it “hell.”
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