14 Afterlife beliefs from different religions (With Pics)

4. Aztecs

When most people think of the Aztecs and their religion, the images that come to mind are those of people offering up their children as human sacrifices to appease their gods. This religion had numerous festivals dictated by the Aztec calendar, and the people believed in numerous gods and goddesses. The Aztecs believed that when of their own died, they would enter into any one of the three places they believed was where they would spend their afterlife: Mictlan, Tlalocan, or the sun. Women who lost their lives during childbirth and fallen warriors were believed to transform into hummingbirds, those who drowned were believed to go to Tlalocan, and those who died from horrible causes ended up in Mictlan.