Visit hell 'frightened' of ancient people

According to the spiritual world, hell is the place where bad people have to go down and suffer punishment after death. For every different religious civilization, there are different concepts of hell.

1. "The house of deception"

According to the culture of the Persians, on the way to hell, the souls of the dead will encounter a bridge - Chivanat , which separates the world of the living and the dead.

This bridge is smaller than a hair but is sharper than a razor blade and guarded by a four-eyed dog. Here, the soul will be judged based on what you did when you were alive.

If they live, they do many good things, the soul will cross the bridge safely and go to heaven, on the contrary if doing many bad things, the bridge will be upside down, throwing that soul into a deep pit - this is exactly The house of falsehood.

As its name suggests, this place is extremely scary and full of lies. Ruled by hundreds of demons, this is where the dead have to die more and more to pay for their crimes. They were 'fed' to 'die' and then resurrected and continued to die.

Apaosha and Zairika are the demons that represent hunger - thirst, it always makes the soul crave food to survive but the "food" they receive is only dead animals, rotting flesh .

2. Duat in Egyptian culture

On ancient Egyptian reliefs, there is a place called Duat. Duat is governed by Shen Rong Osiris - the god of life and death. This place is quite similar to Earth but there are many strange elements such as the Fire Lake and Iron Wall .

In order to reach Duat, the soul must cross the seven doors, guarded by half-human, half-beast monsters with very strange names such as: 'The blood drinker from the slaughterhouse' or 'The man who eats from my hind legs'.

After passing through those doors, the heart of the dead will be placed on a scale and weighed with Maat's feather . If the person is pure and honest, the heart will be as heavy as the feather. At this time, they will be entering the kingdom of God Osiris .

If the heart is heavier, that person's heart is not pure and too ambitious, then they will be eaten by the demon Ammut , and the soul will be punished according to the rules here.

3. Xibalba

Xibalba is the hellish version of the Mayan people and is believed to actually exist in a specific place in the caves near Belize. Any soul passing through here will suffer extreme pain.

To reach Xibalba, the soul must swim through rivers filled with blood, scorpions poisoning. Then, the soul will come to a crossroads, leading to different paths ruled by the lords.

Each lord will perform his own evil deeds to 'entertain' the souls of the dead. As Ahalpuh and Ahalgana will cause pus to erupt from the bodies of the dead, Chamiabac and Chamiaholom will turn the human body into skeletons, or XIC and Patan will squeeze the body until the blood erupts at the mouth .

4. Tuonela

Unlike hell in other cultures, Finnish Tuonela is the place to "continue" new life. Without any punishment here, the life of the dead will continue as if they were alive, just another place.

Those who know they are about to go to Tuonela will often prepare the necessary items to survive when they get there and they will be buried or cremated with them.

Another special feature of Tuonela is that it also opens doors for those who live to visit the dead road in the Tuoni River . However, this is extremely dangerous because the possibility of 'real death' is very high. The main reason is that the Tuoni River does not contain water but is full of poisonous snakes .

5. Naraka

According to the religious culture of Hinduism, Sikhism and partly Buddhism , Naraka is said to be hell - where the souls will be punished for the "karma" they cause when they are alive.

It is divided into more than 1,000 floors, each representing a different sin. Maharaurava, for example, is a platform for people who specialize in theft and fraud of others. They will be eaten by a snake demon called Ruru.

Or Kumbhipakam is the floor for the butcher - they will be punished in the way they used with their "victims" : that is to be boiled in the cauldron until there are no more hairs left. .

According to the culture of Hinduism, Naraka is ruled by Lord Yama Loka . When a person dies, acts, their work on the earth will be evaluated by God's assistant Yama Loka. Accordingly, these people will be sent to Svara (heaven) or Naraka (hell). When "karma" is paid enough, they are reincarnated.

6. Niflheim Hell in Norse mythology

Niflheim is a strange kind of hell in Northern European and German culture. Instead of a furnace, it was a cold land , administered by the goddess Hel, and lying by the coast of the corpse, where Nidhogg lived. Nighogg is a giant snake that eats dead people.

Of the nine worlds in Norse mythology, Niflheim is the deepest and darkest place, and stories suggest that the Earth was created when the icy Niflheim world and flaming Mispelheim joined together. The land is the home of the villains and also the anchor of Yggdrasill - the World Tree , which creates the universe. According to the myth, Hel is the daughter of Aesir Loki, who was expelled from the land of Asgard and became the ruler of the world of the dead. The souls brought to Niflheim will be depressed in pain forever.

7. Gehenna Hell in Middle Eastern culture

The name "Gehenna " was originally the name of a valley near Jerusalem where devotees worshiped the god Moloch sacrificing the children in large flames. Later it was named for the hell in the Hebrew language, where the bad guys had to pay offense.

Gehenna is quite similar to hell we know. It is a deep place and separate from the endless flames of fire and the rains of fire. The fire here is 60 times hotter than any fire on the ground. Heavy sulfur clouds in the air, along with rivers made of molten metal.