The other world in Indians mythology
The understanding of death is rather interesting in traditions of Mexican Indians. And sometimes this understanding got rather original form in compare with the European traditions. First of all it refers to the paradise and the special cult of death connected with the practice of sacrifice that was rather spread among Indians.
There were interesting conceptions about the mystery of death. And there were two ways of sin death. The first one was to turn into the ordinary person eating maize and the second one was to start the sexual life. But they understood that it is rather difficult to talk about the death that is why there are a lot of opinions described in ancient books of Indians.
Indians believed there were four places where the souls of dead people go. They were Chichihuacuauhco, Mictlan, Tlalocan and Ilhuícatl tonatiuh. And the place where the person is going to get depends not on his/her deeds but on the way the person died.
The souls of warriors were getting to the house of the sun. And there in the gardens they had the battles and when the sun was rising they were greeting it. And in four years they came back to earth in the form of birds with bright plumage and were eating the flower nectar.
Even the enemies-warriors got to this paradise. They had their own patron god the name of which meant "the god of dead enemies".