pronoiasecret: The Eye of Africa and My Novels

This post involves research for the graphic novel that I’ve been in the process of writing for about 25 years now,… well not just me alone, butt with Tou and the inner twin world. It’s a saga, so it’s long and requires a lot of research, butt another reason why it’s taking so long has to do with the fact that my life gets busy,… mostly with things that I would rather not be doing!! Sometimes I get the impression that it’s not meant to be finished, butt my sense now is different.

I am aware that my life is influenced by my inner twin and the inner twin world on a regular basis that sometimes connect with emerging pattern clusters as a result of investigating Wikipedia. I don’t necessarily post about the occurrences every time, butt this one is definitely meant to be included here.

Recently on Wikipedia’s Deaths in 2025 site, many of the notable person added in December stood, generating a “Christian/Biblical Theme” pattern cluster that I included in my recent December 3rd post,Hay Den Mud Brick Barns, where 3 in particular grabbed my attention:

Jacqueline Comtesse de Ribes (14 July 1929 – 30 December 2025) Ribs, rite, tribe, bribe, vibes, jack/raise line come test
Oscar da Costa Ribeiro (11 September 1936 – 19 December 2025) rib, os car day cost coast(rib)
Haroldo Costa (May 13, 1930 – December 13, 2025) actor (Você Decide) old cost coast (note: Coast means “rib” in origin

I’ve included at the end of each, the cryptic elements in their names that are designed to form part of a cryptic communication. The three share one thing in common in their names, — “rib”, with the first two being more obvious, and for the third, you have to be aware that the name Costa means “coast” in Spanish, … and that the earlier meaning of the word, coast, is “rib”. Note the etymology:

Coast (n.)
early 14c., "margin of the land;" earlier "rib as a part of the body" (early 12c.), from Old French coste "rib, side, flank; slope, incline;" later "coast, shore" (12c., Modern French côte), from Latin costa "a rib," perhaps related to a root word for "bone" (compare Old Church Slavonic kosti "bone," and PIE root *ost-)

Of course the Biblical tie-in with “rib” is in the Genesis 2:22: And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman… . My sense is that it’s not a literal account as many believe it to be, butt allegory— and that the “rib” actually references to the coastline where “land” meets “sea”, and that early humans began associating their world in terms of dualities: male and female; land and sea; day and night (eve), and then there’s the middle ground — the shore that at one point is part of the “sea “and then at another is bone dry “land” (food for thought)

Because the first book in my saga involves archaic nomadic tribes, where some foraged near the shore of West Africa, and some foraged far inland, I needed to find a suitable location somewhere in West Africa. During the course of the year, each tribe would begin a migratory journey covering hundreds of miles that would bring them to a common point where they stayed for another duration to work, trade and celebrate Kwanzaa.

At first, I leaned toward placing their shore village at Africa’s mid west … butt problems with this began to surface— this didn’t fit in with an important story line that I had in mind involving “ice whales”. Ice-whales is the term I concocted to describe an event that actually happens that’s known as “ice entrapment”, where whales get trapped by ice and then die as it closes off their last breathing hole (called sassat by the Inuit), leaving their bodies to become engulfed in a block of surface ice that thickens as winter progresses, until finally massive flows from melting glaciers during spring create mega-currents that together with giant calved ice bergs then push the surface ice and its cache of frozen whales out to sea

The ice-whales served this tribe as an easily acquired food source— blubber provides nutrients and especially much needed vitamin c …whale oil… and as they would later discover, a source of making methane gas. So I began looking for a place in north west Africa where ocean currents flowed directly from the North .

After more research, I found Mauritania, where its jutting shoreline offered a place where swift ocean currents could feasibly drive the bergs with their scooped up block of ice-whales, butt then another problem arose— Mauritania is part of the Sahara Desert… so how I could this desert location be a feasible spot for human habitation?! As time went on however, I learned about a cyclical occurring event referred to as the “Green Sahara” or “African Humid Period (AHP)”— that are intervals around 10,000 +-years, when the Sahara turned green — teaming with vegetation, lake, rivers, Savana grasslands, scrubland, marshland, flood plains, and even large pockets of jungle.

The first two images below are taken from various web sites that show the areas of the Green Sahara, and as you can see, Mauritania was fairly green during these intervals.

As time went on… and I still wasn’t sure where in Mauritania to locate the two related tribes, the inner twin world decided to help out… more specifically, bringing me to a place referred to as “the Eye of Africa, or the Rich-at-Structure, a circular land indentation, a massive, eroded geological dome in the Sahara Desert of Mauritania, known for its concentric rings visible from space, resembling a giant eye or bullseye (see third and fourth images below). On further research I learned that this huge crater filled with water during the AHP. So this was a plausible place… the furthest extent of the two related tribes.

This reminded me of my earlier posts, where I provide my sketch of the “Lion” that I could see in Africa (see the sketch at image 4, taken from my August 12, 2017 post: T- Neck... Teaneck and the Lion ).

I then learned of a great river that once flowed in the Sahara (see the river depicted at image 5)— The Tamanrasset River, an enormous palaeoriver believed to have flowed through West Africa as recently as 5000 years ago during the African humid period. The Tamanrasset River basin is thought to have been comparable with the present-day Ganges-Brahmaputra river basin in Asia.

And then, last night I decided to watch a film— Ben Hur (the newer 2016 film version)… because it is Bible related after all… and note the cryptic “ben/time her hurt” found in the name (Ben connects with “time” due to Big Ben clock). As the film began, at the time of indicating the Film maker logo, it began with a zooming out from an area that would soon become an “EYE” (see first image above), that then zoomed out further (see second image above), … that zoomed out further to reveal a “LION”… then its tell-tale “ROAR”… and finally the MGM logo (see third image above). Now THAT, is a real eye opener… and an inner twin world influence… and prompt!!

I’ve provided other research for the saga below,… maybe you can follow.