CHAPTER IX.
THE SOUL AND ITS DESTINY.
Universality of the belief in a soul and a future state shown by the aboriginal tongues, by expressed opinions, and by sepulchral rites.
The future world never a place of rewards and punishments .-- The house of the Son the heaven of the red man .-- The terrestrial paradise and the under-world .-- Cupay .-- Xibalba .-- Mictlan .-- Metempsychosis ?--Belief in a resurrection of the dead almost universal 233.