Wrath

Here I am at big sin number five - Wrath.

The solider, being spurred on by the wrath
of the lion and the whisper of the demon.

Wrath is anger, wrath is rage and destruction - perhaps an appropriate subject to be talking about on the day that some believe with herald Ragnarok (the end of the world as we know it)! The kind of hate that's encompassed by this sin is the sort that'll start a centuries' long feud and set brother against brother. Interestingly, whilst wrath is the only sin not wholly associated with selfishness there is an element of it here; anger directed inwards could easily lead to self-harm and the ultimate sin of suicide, a rejection of god's gifts in the eyes of writers such as Dante.

In Dante's version of the Inferno, the wrathful are consigned to the Fifth circle; the place is a stinking swamp, a swollen artery of the great river Styx. On the torpid surface of the river the actively wrathful  fight one another, whilst below the surface the more sullen lie in wait for any unwary souls who should fall in to join them. Dante went so far as to have another circle of hell for violent sinners, in a deviation (amongst several others) from our outlined structure of iniquity. 

Dore's depiction of Satan.

The great prince of Wrath is non other than Satan himself, whilst others might consider some of the gods of war, such as Mars, as being the personification of the quality. Gods, i.e. male deities certainly being balanced by Goddesses of war. Given that bit of information it is, in some ways, strange to think that by the time of the mediaeval era many people did not believe that women were capable of anger at all, given their cold and wet nature (phlegmatic, as the theory of the four humours would have termed it)!