Perhaps it may work if Abe could still chant to create bird portals and rescue his coworkers, but does not learn how to possess other beings until reaching Monsaic Lines? I figured (to explain away the gameplay mechanic) that chant suppressors and such were placed for a reason, that Mudokons chanted when they felt like it, but perhaps it didn't do much of anything except attract birds. And that the Glukkons were being superstitious.
And my two cents on Big Face and Abe's resurrection: my interpretation was that Big Face came to Abe in a dream, when he was hovering between life and death, and brought him back to the land of the living. And also had him wake up at the entrance to Monsaic Lines.
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