Activating the ancestral-spirits
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What is amagobongo?
Those are the roots of certain trees. You dig different roots of different trees and you put them together, and then you put them in a pot with water. Every morning you stir it and eat the bubbles. You drink it and vomit and then you bath with that medicine. You boil this medicine and put a blanket over you and inhale the fumes. This is done up until you finish training. The reason for doing this is to activate the ancestral-spirits in you.
Are they supposed to be bitter medicines?
Yes. The iDlozi needs to eat medicine.
When you talk about spirits, is it the ancestors you talk of?
These are the relatives of your family who died long ago.
Because you don't know all of them, they will come with your relative who was an isangoma, it can be someone you have seen (known) in your life. That person accompanies them to introduce them to you.
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