Due to a violation of physical laws in the domain of our known mythical Shangri-la, Hegel attempts a descent into the Earth’s core; it is the reader’s call to judge if this downhill pilgrimage and upside- down pedagogy reminds more of Dante’s “Divine Comedy” or the “Journey to the Center of the Earth” by Jules Verne. The reader can interactively choose as companion in this expedition either the Homeric Odysseus or Dante’s Ulysses. Yonder, she/he will face beings corresponding to the four elements of nature, but also creatures of the quintessence and the ether.