The Abyssinian Cyber Vernaculus is a series of visual narratives that unfold over the rock-hewn churches of Lalibela, Ethiopia. Using methods of virtual immersion and narrative mythmaking, this work seeks to uncover and reinstate the presence of those marginalized and maligned by the dominant conservative ethos of contemporary Ethiopian society, while pushing up against the apocryphal stories of Africa. The virtual reality component of this body of work activates the existing architecture of the site through three parallel narrative-driven experiences constructed around the perspectives of the self-proclaimed experts of the site: the western academic or white savior (depicted by an Indiana Jones spoof), the conservative Orthodox Christian Ethiopian man and the Hotep (pro-black yet non-progressive cis man).