Reports about giants
Anyone who studies the history of human development will inevitably realize that the term previously used by paleoanthropologists does not apply. Anatomically modern humans with a fully developed cerebrum have existed for 300,000 years, as findings from Morocco show. Interestingly, however, these people showed no interest in actually using their thinking skills. Instead, they limited themselves to the production of primitive tools and cave paintings. Furthermore, intellectual stagnation prevailed for 290,000 years. Then, however, they suddenly began to build massive structures such as temples, pyramids and observatories and to develop technological innovations – a paradox for which there is no plausible explanation. Many scientists resort to meaningless phrases to explain this, such as the assumption that particular cultural, social or climatic conditions may have stimulated people’s creativity. However, some researchers are now prepared to admit that a cognitive “big bang” must be responsible for this sudden developmental surge, without being able to explain what or who triggered this big bang.
Practically every culture has its own creation mythology. Nevertheless, all of these myths seem to have a common origin. They all tell of gods who once descended to earth to create humans and instruct them in various areas such as morality, agriculture, animal husbandry and toolmaking. One could also say that the gods, through genetic manipulation, triggered an evolutionary push or this cognitive “big bang” in early humans that made us what we are today. The traditions of gods, fallen angels, biblical giants etc., which are recorded in religious writings, myths, sagas and legends, are often dismissed as fantasy by enlightened people. Interestingly, however, many of them, including respected scientists, admit to being religious and to praying regularly. Even evolutionary biologists sometimes profess to be deeply religious. This may seem paradoxical, as their beliefs are based on the same traditions that they dismiss as fantasy.
Reports about giants
The following publication makes no claim to completeness or verifiable scientific accuracy. It merely serves to provide an initial rough overview.
The first tablet of the Babylonian heroic epic from the clay tablet library ‘Assurbanipal’, which originated around 1200 BC from Sumerian and Akkadian traditions from the 3rd millennium BC, reports on Gilgamesh, the king of Uruk, among other things: He was eleven cubits long and his chest was nine spans wide. Two parts of him are God and a third part is man (…) This 2/3 god seemed invincible. No wonder, because depending on which cubit is used for the conversion, Gilgamesh was up to an incredible six meters tall.
In the ‘Scofield Bible’, Genesis 6:1-4, it says: In those days were the giants (also called Nephilim) upon the earth, and also afterward, when the sons of God entered in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them.
From the 6th chapter onwards, the Ethiopian ‘Book of Enoch’ also tells of angels (200 in number) who descended from heaven to earth to father offspring with human women, from whom giants emerged. It was not the sins of mankind, but the fallen angels and their bastards that were the main reason for the Flood triggered by God.
In the ‘Torah’, Numbers 13:32-33, the spies report to Moses after their return from the land of Canaan: All the people we have seen in it (in Canaan) are of great stature. We also saw giants there. Children of Anak of the giant race. We felt like grasshoppers against them and we must have seemed like grasshoppers to them.
In the ‘Luther Bible’, Genesis 3:11, we read about an Amorite king: Only King Og of Bashan was left of the giants. Behold, his iron bed (…) is nine cubits long and four cubits wide according to a man’s elbow.
An ancient Egyptian king’s cubit corresponds to 0.524 meters, which means that Og’s bedstead must have been an impressive 4.88 meters long.
Flavius Josephus, a Roman-Jewish historian from the 1st century AD, wrote in his work ‘Antiquities, as well as War of the Jews, Life together with other works’, volume 2, chapter 2, paragraph 3: They took the city (Hebron) by force and strangled everyone in it. There were giants left that were much larger and differently shaped than humans. They were terrible to look at. Their bones are still on display today and anyone who has not seen them with their own eyes cannot believe that they were so immense (…)
In the 2nd century AD, Pausanias, an ancient historian, reported the discovery of five-meter tall humanoid skeletons in what is now Syria.
The Great Chronicle of Taiping tells of an envoy of Emperor Tang Xuanzong who was swept away to an unknown coast by a storm on the high seas. There, he and numerous other castaways are said to have been welcomed by giants measuring six meters or more.
In Greek mythology, Titans are considered the oldest of the Greek gods. The giants (gigantes) are hybrids of humans and snakes. They are considered opponents of the Olympic gods.
There are numerous giant gods in Germanic mythology. They are said to have lived in Riesenheim, which in ancient Germanic languages means Jötunheimr or Utgard and can be translated as the outside world.
Norse mythology tells of Odin as the supreme god and creator of the world and the Asen, the main gods of the Norse pantheon. The Aesir created humans and actively intervened in their fate. The Asen were assisted by the Wanen (nature gods). Both fought against the forces of evil, the race of giants, who were intent on destroying the world and the gods.
An ancient legend about the enormous and enigmatic pyramid complex of Puma Punku (Bolivia) says that the complex was built in one night by a race of giants after a gigantic flood had destroyed the entire area.
Native Americans consider giants to be the original humans. In the 19th century, David Cusick wrote down the legends of his tribe. It tells of the Ronnongwetowanca people, who are said to have been giants. Around 1000 BC, a battle broke out between Cusick’s tribe, the Tuscarora, and the Ronnongwetowanca. The Tuscarora prevailed, after which there were no more giants.
The Cherokee tell of giants who were twice their size. According to their legends, there is also a secret place with a sculpture built for Tsul’kalu – a great hunter among the giants.
On the granite walls of the Grand Canyon’s Havasu Canyon there is a mysterious scratched drawing showing a giant fighting a mammoth. The depiction is covered by a layer of iron, which suggests that it is very old.
The skeleton of a giant was found on a hotel construction site in Chesterville, Ohio, in 1829. After detailed examinations, it was determined that the skeleton was anatomically similar to that of a modern human but had more teeth. After the skeleton was sent to Mansfield for further examination, its trail is lost.
In Lompoc Rancho, in the US state of California, soldiers digging a pit for a powder magazine in 1833 came across the skeleton of a giant who is said to have been almost four meters tall in his lifetime. Next to the strange creature, which was supposedly equipped with double rows of teeth, lay a giant stone axe as well as stones and shells on which indecipherable signs had been carved. After local Indians learned of the giant’s discovery, they stole and burned his bones.
In Kansas City, in the US state of Missouri, a giant skull is said to have been found in a hill in 1877. The strange creature is said to have been a good seven meters tall during its lifetime.
In Eureka, in the US state of Nevada, surveyors came across the bones of a powerful humanoid creature in a rock in 1877. Doctors who examined the petrification said that the creature must have been about four meters tall. The rock in which the bone was discovered was later estimated to be 185 million years old.
In Crittenden, in the US state of Arizona, construction workers came across a huge stone coffin in 1891 while digging a pit for the foundations of an office building. Inside were the mummified remains of a humanoid giant at least four meters tall. His bones had crumbled, but drawings on the coffin depicted the giant.
In 1897, gigantic skeletons were discovered in an Indian grave on a farm in Jackson, Ohio. The finds were handed over to the Eastern Institute, whereupon they disappeared without trace.
In Iztapalapa, Mexico, the prehistoric skeleton of a humanoid giant was unearthed in 1909, which is said to have been over 4.5 meters tall.
The bodies of two humanoid giants over five meters tall are said to have been discovered in the Grand Canyon in the US state of Arizona in 1923.
In 1926, miners found giant humanoid molars in a coal mine in the US state of Montana. To the great surprise of the archaeologists and anthropologists, the teeth were stuck in a layer of rock that is at least 30 million years old.
In 1931, several skeletons of humanoid giants were found in the Humboldt Lakebed near Lovelock in the US state of Nevada.
The complete humanoid skeleton of a giant is said to have been found in Italy in 1958, encased in an 11-million-year-old layer of coal.
In 1958, garden workers found a decomposed, 3.3 meter tall human corpse in a vineyard in West Virginia. The find was labeled a fake after a newspaper reported that three bullets had been found in the skull. The balls were not described in detail. It is also not known what happened to the remains.
A gigantic skeleton of a Neanderthal-like creature was unearthed in the US state of Minnesota in 1968. However, a planned radiocarbon dating could not be carried out because the skeleton disappeared without a trace on the way to the examination.
In Bir Hooker (Egypt), an old grave robber kept the chopped-off finger of a humanoid giant for several decades. It was an heirloom from his grandfather. The Swiss entrepreneur and amateur researcher Gregor Spörri was allowed to photograph the 38-centimeter-long finger in 1988. After a resettlement operation in the Bir Hooker area in the 1990s, the relic and its former owner were unfortunately lost.
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