# Did the Native North & South Americans go to Heaven?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [September 26, 2002, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-native-north-south-americans-go-to-heaven/129736 "2002-09-26T17:21:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2002, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-native-north-south-americans-go-to-heaven/129736/41 "2002-10-05T18:55:17Z")

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Hmmm… html not working here?

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**Author:** ![cthulhuCultist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cthulhuCultist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cthulhuCultist)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2002, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-native-north-south-americans-go-to-heaven/129736/42 "2002-10-06T19:21:03Z")

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> \*Originally posted by NoClueBoy \*  
> \*\*Hmmm… html not working here? \*\*

If you look at the “Forum Rules”, you will see that HTML is disabled, but vB code is allowed.

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**Author:** ![greck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ab992/32.png) [@greck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/greck)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2002, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-native-north-south-americans-go-to-heaven/129736/43 "2002-10-07T14:09:18Z")

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OK, i got the poop on where the aztecs went after death

according to legend, there are 3 deaths  
the first occurs when the heart stops beating  
the second occurs when the body is returned to the earth (burial)  
and the third/final occurs when there is nobody around to remember the departed anymore

where you go when you die all depends on how you died

warriors and mothers who died in childbirth went to a mansion on the sun - the nicest of all

then there are other criteria for going to the one on the moon, and other places in descending order

so essentially, there are multiple aztec heavens, and i don’t know what kind of popsicles they have at the various ones  
what god did with them from their various mansions in the sky, well, that remains a mystery

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