mictlan

[Wauthan]

Aztec mythology is a bit confusing but as far as I've come to understand Mictlan was the
collective name for the entire realm of the dead, all nine layers of it. But since the eight 'top'
layers where merely passageways to the ninth the name Mictlan also seems to be synonymous
with the last layer. The final destination so to speak.

But I might be all wrong.

Apparently Mictlan was not all bad. It seems to be the equivalent of Hel in the old norse mythology,
in that it was the resting place for the unremarkable dead, not a place where sinners where punished.

The names of each layer of the mythological Aztec universe seems to be very elusive information on the internet.