The frescoes of the lower cloister of Malinalco that depict a botanical and zoological garden intend to offer a description and interpretation of life after death. For the Aztecs there were four possible places to go in the Afterlife. Three were heavens or paradises. The other place was the Mictlan, the Underworld, the region of the dead and nothingness. The kind of death and social class of the deceased determined the destiny of a soul, not morality. The Aztec heavens were described by Sahagun, as places of fertility and abundance, full of flowers, fruit and trees. In the Maya and Aztec thought there was the belief that the souls of those dead who entered to the "House of Sun", were converted into chalchinhuites (precious green stones) and after four years would be transformed into flying creatures to return to the earth.
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