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From North America to Europe and the Near East, myth and legends of giants are found in almost every archaic culture. Some are fanciful fables of mythical monsters, but others hint of real history such as the wars of the Israelites during the 1st millennium BC. Giants were almost always ..."
From North America to Europe and the Near East, myth and legends of giants are found in almost every archaic culture. Some are fanciful fables of mythical monsters, but others hint of real history such as the wars of the Israelites during the 1st millennium BC. Giants were almost always on the frontline with the Philistine army.According to the first century Jewish historian, Flavius Josephus (37-100 AD), giants were real:"For which reason they removed their camp to Hebron; and when they had taken it, they slew all the inhabitants. There were till then left the race of giants, who had bodies so large, and countenances so entirely different from other men, that they were surprising tothe site, and terrible to the hearing.
The bones of these men are still shown to this very day, unlike to any credible relations of other men."
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book V, Chapter 2, Section 3
Stories and Legends of Giants
Stories of giants are found
on the west side of the Atlantic. From the Iroquois Nation of the East
to the Rocky Mountains and Pacific Northwest, tales of giants are found
in almost every Native American culture. According to legends of the
Oglala Sioux giant white men lived in the northern areas. (Black Elk
Speaks, John G. Neihardt, 1932) In Sketches of Ancient History of the
Six Nations, David Cusick writes that “…after a time some of the people
become giants and committed outrages upon the inhabitants”. A tribe of
giants whose origin was in the northand of considerable population,
launched raids against the Eagwehowe (original people), typically to
pillage.
In his article “The
Discovery of fossil vertebrates in North America” (Journal of
Paleontology, 1943), George Gaylord Simpson writes of a letter dated
August 22, 1762, from James Wright to John Bartram. It tells of mammoth
remains and relates an Indian legend of giant men:
"The bones were of enormous
size and were accompanied by tusks ten or twelve feet long. No such
creatures as these had ever been seen alive by the Indians, but legend
said they had once been hunted through the forests by men of gigantic
stature and that when the last of these men had died, God had destroyed
their mighty prey in order to protect the present race of Indians."
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