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Cohoba is an old Spanish transliteration (then h was not mute as in modern Spanish, today j is used for the h sound) for ceremony in which psychedelic ground seed of the cojóbana tree; was smoked in twin nasal Y-shaped pipes also called Cohoba The cojóbana tree is believed by some to be Yopo, Anadenathera peregrina [http://www.quake-art.com/docs/Hallucinogenic%20Plants%20-%20A%20Golden%20Guide.pdf although perhaps it may have been a generalized term for psychotropics including various quite toxic Datura and related genera (Solanacea). The corresponding ceremony using cohoba-laced tobacco is transliterated as cojibá (the terminal accented á indicates action in Taíno). This corresponds culturally to the practice of drug induced “astral traveling” so common to the Americas and else where.

 

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