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Chumaki - The Black Paths
Chumaki is a word i liked. I don't know why i was interested in these grain traders, these people who were carrying oxend. They travelled in groups of about a hundred with an oxen. Each carried about two thousand pounds. And they travelled over long distances, bringing grain in one direction, some sometimes leather in slaves in other directions. Chuma means plague, and chumaki are the people who carry the goods, but they also carry the plagueso the word is related. The milky way for ukranians is chumasky way riht, and it's the path of the chumas as they see ita.
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