Thursday,
November 26, 2015
Discussing
Giants of the Ancient Past
I
have not seen a reason to cover the giant myths of folklore and of the Jason C.
blogs, only because it is his territory, and also because the fringe doesn't
like it.I've chosen to go into it now though. Sure, why not.
First
of all, it is a staple of fantasy to include giant people, those over 7 feet
who are massive in strength and stature, and can crush the average man.
Since
there are megafauna, that is animals that are giants, it is certainly
reasonable to have fantasies based on finding their bones and imagine what kind
of man produced them, even if you know full well it was a horse hind leg, an
elephant skull, or a whale bone.
The
cyclops of ancient myth, although not really a giant, could have been a
mistaken reading of an elephant skull, as it has that funny middle part that is
where the trunk attaches.
The
giants of old as thought of in the Babylonian stories are similar to those in
the Bible. They are often described as large people, physically taller than the
natives writing the story. Goliath for instance was allegedly 9 feet tall.
The
Nephilim are not really giants. They were great rulers according to some myths
about the Babylonians and the Bible later.
Some
confusion with the Bible stories, of which some groups completely disregard as
myths, arises from making the statements about great kings of men and great
sized kings of men.
Great
warriors also got the giant treatment, erroneously thought of as mighty as in
tall, and not merely mighty as in strong. Someone built like Arnold from
Terminator looks tall an imposing, when he is tall but not over 6 foot 2, and
yet his mass is great. Most basketball players are well over 6 foot 8.
Some
of the confusion is translation error. You get a story where a giant allegedly
stalks, and it turns out it was an animal.
The
other blogs have already gone into much of this, so really there is little
point in me going there. If there were giant human bones, we would have found
them. There. Also I classify a giant as any humanoid over 7 feet tall.
I
am in agreement with Jason C.'s web site about the giants, so there is no
reason to really delve into what he's gone over. I do not know him and troll
his blog on occasion.
Anyway,
to the ancient mighty kings, well that is just powerful kings. They might not
have been actually very tall.
Goliath
may not have actually been 9 feet tall. He was likely closer to 7 feet tall,
and the Hebrew measuring was different then. A 7 foot tall person in Canaan is
entirely possible.
The
Nephilim are supposed to be angel and human hybrids, but since we've no direct
evidence of angels in the first place, by proxy they don't count as giants.
They also don't count as ancient aliens. Some say they were likely meant as a
story stand in for an earlier ancient group that ticked off the storyteller of
Genesis, so he made it sound like God hated them for being like that.
The
Cyclops is not a giant. If you look in the original Greek, he is big but nor a
giant.
The
Menataur might have been larger though.
If
Centaurs weren't just men on horseback and were really half horse men, they
would be tall.
Zeus
however was supposed to be a giant.
Some
of the Egyptian statues are mistaken by fringe people as representations of
actual giants, and also other statues like at Easter Island, or later ones.
This just assumes that people cared literally what they saw, which they cannot
know. So no, they didn't. They just are making a statement, not a
representation of an actual being they saw. A tall statue is more interesting
than a shorter statue is all.
If Pegasus and Unicorns weren't someone just
high on mushrooms or local seeds...but that's not about giants....so yeah.
Like
the Bigfoot, nobody has ever brought proof of a giant skeleton of a man,
although in nature, men can group to impressive height caused by a disease that
messes with their stature.
All
of the giant skeletons are misread animals or hoaxes, all of them.
Then
the fringe has the audacity to claim the science community is hiding the truth
from the public and they have secret info, on the internet, in 2015. Uh, right.
Like no.
So
the alleged Watchers are some other group, but from Lovecraft and other fantasy
writers, they're made up.
The
reptilians of fantasy are said to be big, because dinosaurs, but still it's
kind of sketchy.
The
insect cannot grow very large unless it's a hybrid.
Nobody
is hiding the truth because these guys can't prove it is hidden.
Also
it is funny to recant and copy and paste other texts and then complain about
being caught.
Even
so, the only Giants I know of are a baseball team. :)
Originally published under Freelance Kitty 14 web site.
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