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Troy Valencia

Musical artist

Sep 7, 2026

HamidHOST
28:31
Um, should really just talk about that and, you know, how do you all work with it and, and maybe even honor the plant and the lineage, you know, like there's definitely a lot there.
28:41
Yeah, yeah, I think starting with the lineage is always appropriate there.
28:46
So like I said, in Central West Africa, in Gabon is where this plant comes from.
28:52
And the people there are the Bwiti people.
28:53
You could think of the Bwiti like a tree of sorts.
28:57
the roots of the tree are the desumba tradition which is the first tradition the trunk is the masoko and then there's various branches uh the machogo the fang the mabundi there's all these different branches and so my first initiation was into a fang tradition which is a blend of traditional masoko and christianity when they came together in desumba excuse me And then after that, I got initiated into a Masoko branch, Masoko Ngonde, which is the moon.
29:25
And that's the family and the tribe I'm associated with now.

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HamidHOST
48:05
It's more like moving more towards a medicine maybe, um, What are your thoughts on that?

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