Destination |
Mode of Transportation |
Amenities |
Accommodations |
Cost |
Paradise |
Islam |
Date and pomegranate trees, goblets of non-sin-inducing wine served by boy waiters, virgins, everlasting peace |
Gardens, brocade-lined couches, green cushions, beautiful carpets |
Repentance, righteousness, passing of God’s tests, including weighing of soul and judging of deeds |
Valhalla |
Norse paganism |
Freshly slaughtered boar, liquor from goat’s udder, daily warrior fights |
Shield-roofed palace |
Glorious death in battle |
Sukhavati |
Pure Land Mahayana Buddhism |
Music of birds, trees hung with precious jewels and gold bells, rebirth |
Purifying lotus buds on a terraced pond in a land of bliss |
Belief in Buddha Amitabha, invocation of his name at moment of death |
Elysian Fields |
Greek polytheism |
Eternal sunshine, incense- and fruit-bearing trees, music, drinks, singing, dancing, wrestling |
Rose meadows on the banks of the River Oceanus at earth’s end |
Gaining the favor of the gods, living righteously |
Heaven |
Roman Catholicism |
Eternal life, beatific vision, becoming godlike |
Pearl-gate entrance, God’s eternal presence |
Baptism, dying in God’s grace, penance in purgatory |
Fields of Earu |
Egyptian polytheism |
Feasts, boating, checkers |
Fields and canals in the sky |
Mummification, being provisioned with spells and amulets |