Damnation (from Latin ) is the concept of
divine punishment and torment in an afterlife for actions committed on Earth. In
Ancient Egyptian religious tradition, citizens would recite the 42 negative confessions of
Maat as their heart was weighed against the feather of truth. If the citizen's heart was heavier than a feather they would face torment in a
lake of fire. They all faced torment in a lake of fire. Zoroastrianism developed an eschatological concept of a
Last Judgment called
Frashokereti where the dead will be raised and the
righteous wade though a river of milk while the wicked will be burned in a river of molten metal. Abrahamic religions such as Christianity have similar concepts of believers facing judgement on a last day to determine if they will spend eternity in Gehenna or
heaven for their
sin . A damned human "in damnation" is said to be either in Gehenna, or living in a state wherein they are divorced from
Heaven and/or in a state of disgrace from God's favor. In traditional Abrahamic
demonology, the
Devil rules Gehenna, where he and his
demons punish the damned.
