Twenty-eight volumes on the African origin of the world's oldest stories. The drowned island is Dama Ali, in the Afar of Ethiopia, and the traditions that remember it are one story told from different shores.
Plato's description of Atlantis is a list of physical specifications: a volcanic island ringed with land and water, hot and cold springs, a great plain worked by canals, a harbour, a drowning in a single day and night, and a shoal of mud left where the land went down. One place on Earth answers every term at once. It is the Abhe basin of the Afar depression, where three tectonic plates pull apart, and the island is the shield volcano Dama Ali, standing in the floor of a lake that once rose above 400 metres.
From that ground the series follows the memory outward: into Genesis and Enoch, Gilgamesh, the gods of Egypt, the Greeks, the Covenant and the Gospel, the Grail, and the mountain of Meru. Each volume takes one tradition and reads it against the same map.
Atlantis in Ethiopia
The Lost Island of Dama Ali
The foundational volume. Part One puts Plato's twenty-three specifications to the ground of the Afar and counts the result: twenty-two answered, seventeen documented, six awaiting named field tests, none contradicted. Part Two follows the memory of the island through fourteen ancient witnesses.
Paperback and Kindle on AmazonAll twenty-eight volumes are on Amazon in paperback and Kindle, in English. French editions of most volumes are also available. Each cover opens the book's page.
A weekly essay on one site, one star or one correspondence from the books, free to read. The first: why the island was never in the Atlantic.
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A printable catalogue of the series, with a code for each book, is available on request.