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I'm not sure the lake of fire concept of hell existed before the book of Revelation, a couple decades AD. I don't think the Hebrew hell/afterlife is like that, for instance. And I don't know if any other religions that have it either.

I think the Christian idea of hell also come out of the Jewish Gehenna, which it sounds like was the name of an actual valley near Jerusalem which was associated with a (condemned in Judaism) practice of child sacrifice via fire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gehenna

Etheopia had one of the earliest Christian communities (that early on split from what became the larger group of Christians) so I could easily imagine Dallol being inspiration for the book of Revelation and/or otherwise influential in forming the Christian idea of hell.

It sort of looks like Caelid in Elden Ring.

It’s plausible, considering Ethiopia is precisely where early->modern humans evolved. Australopithecus Afarensis (“Lucy”) was discovered in the same region/province, not very far south of Dallol.