Parmuat Koikai is a Maasai Elder from the Kitilikini Community in Loita Hills. At a young age, he trained as a shaman/laibon/medicine man, traveling throughout his region as a healer. For many years he has been the keeper of the forest herbs in the Naimina Enkiyio Forest, the Sacred Forest of the Lost Child, providing these herbs for all the Maasai communities throughout Kenya and Tanzania. He is also the keeper of his great grandfathers' kidongi (the horn that keeps the stones). For many years, for wisdom and insight, Parmuat has been learning to read and consult these stones with surprising accuracy. Parmuat presently holds a government job as the leader of the Loita Village elders, the "mzee kijiji" for all the Loita Villages. 

LMAKIYA LESARGE, is a graduate of Social Sciences from Moi University Eldoret. Born and brought up in Samburu County, he is a strict adherent to the Samburu cultural values and ideals. He is enthusiastic and committed to documenting and preserving his people's indigenous cultural knowledge for prosperity. This has exposed him to vast wealth and depth of knowledge that makes him one of the finest cultural tourist guides in Kenya. Lesarge is a respected Samburu elder and has mentored many in the younger Samburu generation on the importance of adherence to and preservation of their culture. He is the author of The Samburu: A Brief Cultural Guide and Proverbs of the Samburu and Folktales of the Samburu. Lmakiya and Murphy met in 1998. GVF provided a computer, cassettes and a cassette player for him to record the Samburu proverbs, as well as sponsored him to lecture in Santa Barbara and for him to attend a mythological retreat at Pacifica Graduate Institute.