According to the common belief the dead, on leaving this world, pass between two fires, _agnicikhe_ raging on either side of his path.

These fires burn the one that ought to be burned (the wicked), and let the good pass by.
Then the spirit (or the man himself in body) is represented as going up on one of two paths.

Either he goes to the Manes on a path which, according to later teaching, passes southeast through the moon, or he goes northeast (the gods' direction) to the sun, which is his 'course and stay.' In the same chapter one is informed that the rays of the sun are the good (dead), and that every brightest light is the Father-god.

The general conception here is that the sun or the stars are the destination of the pious.

On the other hand it is said that one will enjoy the fruit of his acts here on earth, in a new birth; or that he will 'go to the next world'; or that he will suffer for his sins in hell.