For hell's sake, in numerous religious and folkloric conventions, is a position of torment and discipline in the great beyond. Religions with a straight awesome history regularly portray hells as interminable goals while religions with a cyclic history frequently delineate a damnation as a mediator period between manifestations. Normally these conventions find hellfire in another measurement or under the Earth's surface and regularly incorporate doorways to Hell from the place where there is the living. Other existence in the wake of death goals incorporate Heaven, Purgatory, Paradise, and Limbo.
Different customs, which don't consider eternity as a position of discipline or reward, just portray Hell as a homestead the dead, the grave, a nonpartisan place situated under the surface of Earth (for instance, see Sheol and Hades).