Uçmag
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Uçmag (also spelled: Uçmag, Uçmak, Ocmah, Uçmah) is heaven in Turkic mythology. It is the opposite of Tamag. The souls of the righteous people dwell in heaven after death.
==Etymology== Since the soul reaches heaven by flying up to it, for example by taking the appearance of a bird or carried by a spirit sent by Ülgen, will be carried to heaven after death, heaven carries a connotation of flying. 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. However, another possibility is Sogdian word '' (paradise).
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