Here’s another story. It’s Sufi in origin. Some of my Christian friends have a hard time understanding this story...it’s about Lucifer and God.
God asks all his angels to bow to his latest creation...man. All do, except Lucifer. God asks Lucifer, the angel who loved God the most, why he displayed such disobedience. Lucifer says, ‘my love for you knows no bounds. I only bow to YOU.’
For his disobedience,God casts Lucifer to hell. So, the Mystics ask, ‘how can Lucifer survive in hell now that he is separated from his love?’ The answer they say is Lucifer keeps on remembering God’s last words to him, ‘be gone!’
And, that’s what hell is...loss of love. You are consumed by your own ego...forever.
The Yazidis have a story something like this. I think their head Peacock Archangel refused to bow, and was sent to punishment. But he repented and cried so many tears he filled seven large vessels. Then he poured the tears out of the vessels and extinguished the fires of hell.