Tallstone and the City - Wammack, Dennis
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The Beginning of Civilization: Mythologies Told True is a six-book character-driven suis generalis series with unbroken narrative written in crisp inviting language touched with poetry stripped of ornamentation that explores the motivations, fears, and desires of the flawed everyday people whose lives and exploits, told and retold through the ages, gave rise to our mythologies. With each book, our simple innocent beginning degenerates into increasingly conflicted complexity whose accumulated failures and lessons unlearned haunt and bring us to where we are today. The series imagines the real…mehr

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The Beginning of Civilization: Mythologies Told True is a six-book character-driven suis generalis series with unbroken narrative written in crisp inviting language touched with poetry stripped of ornamentation that explores the motivations, fears, and desires of the flawed everyday people whose lives and exploits, told and retold through the ages, gave rise to our mythologies. With each book, our simple innocent beginning degenerates into increasingly conflicted complexity whose accumulated failures and lessons unlearned haunt and bring us to where we are today. The series imagines the real people behind Biblical, Greek, and Egyptian mythologies. It is historical fiction mixed with fantasy. The first three books are set in the neolithic inspired by current-day Gobekli Tepe, Sanliurfa, and traditions of Atlantis and the Great Flood. After Pumi and Valki initiate civilization, then the Titans-Oceanus, Cronus, Dionysus, and their brethren-battle the Olympians-Hestia, Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Demeter, Aphrodite-in a losing attempt to save civilization. In the last three books, civilization regroups with the rise of Djoser's Egypt as he exploits Egyptian myths of Isis and Osiris and the competitions between Horus and Set. In Canaan and Phoenicia, sexual and religious attitudes continue their evolution and misogyny emerges as civilization continues its attempt to overthrow the ongoing omnipotent control of the Kyrios-Olon. The narrative is continuous across the six books with new protagonists replacing the old. Book One-Tallstone and the City: A New Heaven and Earth, Second Edition imagines mankind's transition from nomadic hunter-gatherers into permanent agrarian and scientific communities. The tradition of Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden is retold through the story of Pumi the stonecutter and Valki the gatherer- from their birth through their death. Pumi and Valki, through innocent acts of living, create a city, domesticate wheat, establish scientific inquiry, create animal husbandry, and lay the foundation for modern civilization. They meant no harm. Book 2 imagines the Titan creation of an Atlantis-inspired civilization. Book 3 imagines the rise of the Olympians and the origination of the Great Flood myth. Books 4, 5, and 6 follow the protagonists into the lands of Egypt, Canaan, and Byblos.
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THE SHORT VERSION: Dennis Wammack: Alabama Born. Alabama bred. All the pride. All the guilt.Seven decades of figuring things out: An engineering contractor with white socks and pocket protector at Houston Space Flight Center in the 60's and 70's. A retail merchant supplying photographic supplies to commercial photographers, corporations, colleges, high schools, and hobbyists in Birmingham Alabama from the '80s through 2015. A worst-selling author/editor/publisher from 2016 until now.He has a wife of 52 years, two independent self-actualized daughters, 150 world-class photographs, and 1100 masterpoints from ACBL.He does NOT have a dog or hope for the survival of human civilization-Tip died in 2015, hope in 2016. ### THE LONG VERSION: Dennis Wammack was born, raised, and lives in Birmingham, Alabama. He spent thirteen years in Houston working for various incarnations of McDonnell-Douglas; a prime contractor supporting NASA Houston Manned Spaceflight operations, specifically with in-flight-simulations and crew training During that time, he married Dianne Perry of Montgomery, and they had two children, Jennifer and Catherine.In 1978, he moved his family back to Alabama to raise their children with their grandparents and cousins.They opened a photographic supply store, Cameras Brookwood, in Homewood Alabama, where they served primarily advanced hobbyists, professional, and educational markets for over 38 years.The core business of film and darkroom supplies was impacted by the transition from analog to digital. Mr. Wammack states, "We closed the store because our lease was up, our bills were paid, I was old, and I wanted to."After retirement, he began writing short stories as gifts for family members. This segued into self-published paperback novels. His writing is influenced by his desire to resolve dichotomies, especially those suggested during his working-class Southern Baptist upbringing.Dennis and Dianne have a collection of over 150 superb photographs. They are both well past the Life Master rank in Duplicate Bridge. He has a BA from UA in Aerospace Engineering. She has a BS from AU in Computer Sciences. He writes. She plays bridge. They live in the suburban woods of Riverchase.