But heaven is not often described, and hell never, in this period.

Yet, when the paradise desired is described, it is a place where earthly joys are prolonged and intensified.

Zimmer argues that a race which believes in good for the good hereafter must logically believe in punishment for the wicked, and Scherman, strangely enough, agrees with this pedantic opinion.[51] If either of these scholars had looked away from India to the western Indians he would have seen that, whereas almost all American Indians believe in a happy hereafter for good warriors, only a very few tribes have any belief in punishment for the bad.

At most a Niflheim awaits the coward.

Weber thinks the Aryans already believed in a personal immortality, and we agree with him.