The souls of the righteous people dwell in heaven after death.
Since the Turkic word for flight (uç) combined with the infinitive verbal suffix -mak means to take flight, from the eleventh century onwards, this word served to designate this particular region of the afterlife.
[3][verification needed] However, another possibility is Sogdian word 'wshtm'x' (paradise).
[4] In Tengrism, heaven resembles the earth, but as undefiled by humans with an untouched nature.
It is much brighter than the earth there and the natives of this world have never deviated from the traditions of their ancestors.