Polite discourse appreciated, praise over the top. Most of what looks
smart is dumb luck.

Dumb luck had me look into the history of Kucha; even wrote a digital
novel about the place posted at my website. http://daybrown.org;
software issues make it hard to read, but I'm working on it. I have
notions of printing and binding ANZI books, where I'd have more
flexibility in the font and scale.

But I digress. Funny thing about the Kuchan graveyards, is that they
are full of middle class people. No lavish graves of the honchos.
Nobody buried with much other than herbs, pots, daily use items. &
herbs. No weapons.

There's no weapons cause there's no warrior class; and that's not
needed cause Kucha is way out the fuck in the Taklamakhan desert.
There's not enuf water in the few springs on the route to supply an
army. Kucha is kinda intimidating anyway when yoo get there. Built on
what out West we call a butte. But there's no palace in town. Its all
middle class adobe and the shrines for 22 religions.

The same cold dry alkaline soils that freeze dried the bodies- so we
can see what the best dressed 6th century Celts in the world wearing,
they also preserved documents. Even an entire library found by Chinese
Commie Taoist monks 30 years ago while cleaning out a Buddhist temple.
Behind a false wall. LIke a fucking movie. Everyone marvels at the
Dead Sea Scroll collection. Which would all fit in a footlocker.

Over the last 100 years or so, they've hauled enough documents out of
the Taklamakhan and Kara Kum deserts to fill 18 wheelers. And hardly
anyone in the cultures dominated by Christianity knows anything about
it. We marvel at ghost towns out west that are 150 years old. There
are ghost towns out east that are ten times older. The Chinese just
found another one last year that's been abandoned 2500 years.

Aryans domesticated the horse 6000 years ago, and arrive in China with
it, the cart, the wheel, bronze, and another language 4000 years ago.
And all along the way, from China to the Black Sea and the Dneipr to
Danube river basins. oases were found, trading towns were built along
rivers, and ports built on the Caspian and Black seas. It was a
mercantile, not military empire.

By the 7th Century, Kucha was well known as the translation center for
Occidental and Oriental documents. The desert has presevered samples
in 20 different languages. They even found a mail bag in the Kara Kum
that was lost in 341AD. Personal letters that fell off the camel
train, were tossed aside by robbers, died in the desert of thirst or
disease, or whatever. They have literally hauled tons of this shit,
and there's more tons yet to be found. The mail bag had letters
written on Paper. Everyone thot, until they saw these letters, that
paper had been invented in China hundreds of years later.

They keep finding stuff to show the world isnt what history said it
was. Nobody in China talks about it, but there's a whole vocabulary of
Shang words that have Aryan roots- related to horses, tack, harnesss,
bronze, the wheel, cart, wood working tools, joinery, etc. DNA is
revealing lotsa herbs and veggies came from China along this trade
route. Which was actually at least three main East/West routes-
summer, winter, and the mid range route for summer or fall.

Warfare, revolution, political unrest resulted in camel trains making
detours. All the while this is going on, people realize they are
loosing money. As a result, they learned to work it out. A lot of it
was worked out by women. Its all in a feminine hand. So, while each
city state along the silk road routes were in capitalistic competition
with each other, they had to be egalitarian and minimize the cost of
management. It was all too easy for any skilled craftsman to hop on
the next camel train to wherever they offered a better deal.

There were also the world's first transnationals- shipping offices run
by women who left us the letters to each other. Among other things,
arranging for their boys to get laid when they get to town. The women
dont want their men coming back with STDs from fucking cheap whores.
Kucha was notorious cause the brothels were owned by the city.

The Gautamid Queens of Kucha were also madams. Their salons must have
been big hits. The Kuchan wine was remarkable, dosed with
psychedelics. And because merchants had so many different cultures and
religions, there were all these shrines, and all these documents being
compared among Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, Zorastrianism,
Nestorian and Manichean versions, Vedas. damn near anything.

The Gautamas were so well informed because they always sent girls on
loan to royal courts. The priciest call girls in Xian were all Kuchi.
The Chinese found a remarkably well preserved noblewoman a few years
ago with type AB blood still in her veins. Nobody says anything, but a
med professional told me the Chinese dont *have* AB blood. The lady
had an Aryan ancestress. Well, we all know how call girls move up the
power structures.

For thousands of years, central Asia was a free trade zone, but it
didnt have slums or minorities. Aryans and Chinese have been found
buried in each other's costumes. Kucha left us frescos of rich
mercants decked out in the latest Chinese silks, but- with red hair
and blue eyes. If you recall, Alexander's army was halted in Parthia.
Its a region that was real hard on armies cause the rich target zones
were all so damn far apart.

By the time an army could get organized to leave, the call girls had
already left with the news they were coming. And on the Steppes, you
could always tell where the army was because of all the vultures
circling above them. So that by the time the army got there, all the
smart money had already left town with the girls, so that all the
troops found was an empty shell. No gold, no silver, no pussy.

Oh, the Longswords were often called for police action to track
bandits. And sometimes sent up into the hills to settle a blood feud.
Otherwise, it was a somewhat tarnished golden age of peace. Where men
ruled they did so in competition for women. The Gautamas had an
advantage in that they never bred the airheads, but drafted them into
brothels.

The road to Kucha was well known cause it was so very clearly marked:
with the skeletons of the dead. There are genuine acoustic reasons for
the noises of the desert at night, but those who cant keep their wits
leave the bones along the way, so Kucha was the survival of the
fittest. It all adds up to disconcerting history.