People are giants. Do you think this is a myth or reality? In the article we will analyze the findings and compare the facts, which will help solve this mystery or get very close to the result.
The existence of giants is evidenced by finds of bones of unusual sizes around the world, as well as myths and legends living mainly among American Indians. Scientists, however, have never paid enough attention to collecting and analyzing this evidence. Probably because they considered the existence of giants impossible.
The book of Genesis (chapter 6, verse 4) reads:“At that time there were giants on the earth, especially since the time when the sons of God began to come in to the daughters of men, and they began to bear children to them. These are strong people who have been famous since ancient times.”
Goliath
The most famous of the giants described in the Bible is the warrior Goliath of Gath. The Book of Samuel says that Goliath was defeated by the sheep shepherd David, who later became king of Israel. Goliath, according to the biblical description, had a height of more than six cubits, that is, three meters.
His military equipment weighed about 420 kg, and the weight of the metal spear reached 50 kg. There are many stories among the people about giants who were feared by rulers and leaders. Greek mythology tells the story of Enceladus, a giant who fought Zeus and was struck by lightning and covered by Mount Etna.
In the fourteenth century, the skeleton of the supposed Polyphemus, the one-eyed king of the Cyclops, was discovered in Trapani (Sicily), 9 meters long.
The Delaware Indians say that in the old days east of the Mississippi there lived giant men called Alligewi who would not allow them to pass through their lands. The Indians declared war on them and eventually forced them to leave the area.
The Sioux Indians had a similar legend. In Minnesota, where they lived, a race of giants appeared, which, according to legend, they destroyed. The bones of giants are probably still in this land.
Trace of the Giant
On Mount Sri Pada in Sri Lanka there is a deep imprint of a man's foot of gigantic proportions: it is 168 cm long and 75 cm wide! Legend says that this is the trace of our ancestor - Adam.
The famous Chinese navigator Zheng He spoke about this find in the 16th century:
“There is a mountain on the island. It is so high that its peak reaches the clouds and the only imprint of a man’s foot can be seen on it. The recess in the rock reaches up to two chi, and the length of the foot is more than 8 chi. They say here that this trace was left by Saint A-Tang, the forefather of mankind.”
Giants from different countries
In 1577, huge human bones were found in Lucerne. The authorities quickly convened scientists who, working under the guidance of the famous anatomist Dr. Felix Plater from Basel, determined that these were the remains of a man 5.8 meters tall!
36 years later, France discovered its own giant. His remains were found in a grotto near Chaumont Castle. This man was 7.6 meters tall! The Gothic inscription "Tentobochtus Rex" was found in the cave, as well as coins and medals, which lead to believe that the skeleton of the Cimbri king was discovered.
Europeans who began to study South America also talked about huge people. The southern part of Argentina and Chile was named Patagonia by Magellan from the Spanish "pata" - hoof, because tracks resembling large hooves were found there.
In 1520, Magellan's expedition encountered a giant in Port San Julian, whose appearance was recorded in the journal: “This man was so tall that we only reached his waist, and his voice sounded like the roar of a bull.” Magellan's men probably even managed to capture two giants, who, chained on the deck, did not survive the journey. But because their bodies stank horribly, they were thrown overboard.
British explorer Francis Drake claimed that in 1578 he got into a fight with giants in South America, whose height was 2.8 meters. Drake lost two people in this battle.
More and more explorers encountered giants on their travels, and the number of documents on the topic grew.
In 1592, Anthony Quinett summarized that the height of known giants is, on average, 3-3.5 meters.
Giant Man - Myth or reality?
When, however, Charles Darwin arrived in Patagonia in the 19th century, found no trace of the giants. Earlier information was discarded as it was considered to be greatly exaggerated. But stories of giants continued to come from other regions.
The Incas claimed, What giant people descend from the clouds at regular intervals to live with their women.
It is often difficult to tell the difference between a very tall person and a giant. For a pygmy, a person with a height of 180 cm is probably a giant. However, anyone over two meters tall should be classified as a giant.
That's exactly what he was Irishman Patrick Cotter. He was born in 1760 and died in 1806. He was famous for his height and made his living performing in circuses and fairs. His height was 2 meters 56 centimeters.
At the same time, he lived in the USA Paul Bunyan - Lumberjack, about which there are many legends. According to them, he kept elk as pets, and when he was once attacked by a buffalo, he easily broke its neck. Contemporaries claimed that Bunyan was 2.8 meters tall.
There is also a very interesting document in the English archives, namely, "The History and Antiquities of Allerdale." This work is a collection of folk songs, legends and stories about the Cumberland and tells, in particular, about the discovery of huge remains in the Middle Ages:
“The giant was buried at a depth of 4 meters in what is now farmland, and the grave was marked with a vertical stone. The skeleton was 4.5 meters long and was fully armed. The sword and ax of the dead man lay near him. The sword was more than 2 meters long and 45 centimeters wide.”
In Northern Ireland there are 40,000 closely spaced and driven into the ground conical pillars with convex and concave ends, which are believed to be natural formations. Old legends say, however, that these are the remains of a colossal bridge that connected Ireland and Scotland.
In the spring of 1969, excavations were carried out in Italy and 50 brick-lined coffins were discovered nine kilometers south of Rome. There were no names or other inscriptions on them. All of them contained skeletons of men with a height of 200 to 230 cm. Very tall, especially for Italy.
Archaeologist Dr Luigi Cabalucci said the people died between the ages of 25 and 40. Their teeth were in surprisingly good condition. Unfortunately, the date of the burial and the circumstances under which it occurred were not established.
Where do giants come from?
So, the number of finds increased, and in different countries. But the most intriguing question is “where do they come from? giant people"remains unanswered.
French writer Denis Saurat has formulated a fascinating version. Thinking about what might happen if some other celestial body began to approach Earth, he concluded that the effect of such an event would be a sharp increase in the gravity of our planet.
The tides would be higher, meaning land would be flooded. Another, less well-known consequence of this state of affairs would be gigantism in plants, animals and humans. The latter would reach a height of 5 meters. According to this theory, the size of living organisms increases with increasing radiation, in this case cosmic radiation.
“Increased radiation, including cosmic radiation, probably has two effects: it causes mutations and damages or transforms tissue. Some illustration of the theory and the effect of radiation on growth may be the events of 1902 on the island of Martinique, where Mount Pelée erupted, killing 20,000 people in St. Pierre.
Immediately before the eruption began, a purple cloud consisting of dense gas and water vapor formed over the crater of the volcano. It grew to an unprecedented size and spread throughout the island, whose inhabitants were not yet aware of the threat.
Suddenly, a pillar of fire 1,300 feet high shot out from the volcano. The fire also engulfed the cloud, which burned at temperatures above 1000 degrees. All the inhabitants of St. Pierre died, with the exception of one, who was sitting in a prison cell protected by thick walls.
The destroyed city was never rebuilt, but biological life on the island was reborn faster than expected. Plants and animals returned, but they were all much larger now. Dogs, cats, turtles, lizards and insects were larger than ever before, and each successive generation was taller than the previous one."
French authorities set up a research station at the foot of the mountain and soon discovered that mutations in animals and plants were the result of radiation from minerals released during the volcanic eruption.
This radiation also affected people: the head of the research center, Dr. Jules Graviou, grew by 12.5 cm, and his assistant, Dr. Powen, by 10 cm. It was discovered that the irradiated plants grew three times faster and reached a development level in six months. which would normally take two years.
The lizard, called the copa, which previously reached 20 cm in length, turned into a small dragon 50 cm long, and its bite, previously harmless, became more dangerous than the venom of a cobra.
The strange phenomenon of anomalous enlargement disappeared when these plants and animals were transported from Martinique. On the island itself, the apogee of radiation was reached within 6 months after the explosion, and then its intensity slowly began to return to normal levels.
Is it possible that something similar (maybe on an even larger scale) happened once in the past? Increased doses of radiation could contribute to the formation of abnormally large organisms. This theory finds some support from the fact that huge animals existed on Earth long after the extinction of the dinosaurs.
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Legends about giants are spread all over the world. In the epics of many nations, three-meter-tall people are mentioned. Some believe that giant structures like the English Stonehenge are the graves of giants buried at colossal depths. Throughout human history, evidence has been found that incredibly tall people actually lived on Earth in ancient times.
Race of giants
Thus, in 1931, the imprint of a gigantic human foot was discovered in Mexico City. The existence of a race of giants is also evidenced by eyewitness accounts who traveled in Patagonia (South America) in the 16th century.
A huge copper ax weighing about 30 kilograms was found in an ancient burial ground in Ohio (USA). Another ax was found stuck in the ground in the US state of Wisconsin. Its weight and size leave no doubt - only a very tall person, who also had remarkable strength, could operate such a tool. This ax is now in the collection of the Missouri Historical Society.
During excavations in Siberia in the 60s, Soviet archaeologists became the owners of another unique find: dinosaur bones with a huge arrowhead sticking out of them.
Footprints in the sand
Not far from the city of Carson City (Nevada, USA), prints of a whole chain of footprints of bare feet were discovered in sandstone. The prints are very clear, and even a non-specialist can see that these are human footprints. The only thing that confuses scientists is the length of the foot, forever imprinted in sandstone, is almost 60 centimeters! The age of the find is about 248 million years!
But the imprint of a human foot discovered in Turkmenistan is 150 million years old. Scientists testify that the foot of our distant ancestor differs from the foot of modern man only in its incredible size. Next to this print there is a clear trace of a three-toed dinosaur paw! All this indicates only one thing - our ancestors could well have been giants. They existed in prehistoric times and hunted giant lizards, which looked not so huge next to these people.
The Man from Wilmington and the Giant from Cern
And images of giant people can be found in almost all countries. The most famous of them are the giants of Britain. These are the 70-meter “Man from Wilmington” (Sussex County) and the 50-meter “Giant from Cern” (Doroeth County), the figures of the giants are located on the chalk hills. The ancient people removed the turf and grass there in such a way that the white base of the hills was exposed. The white outline of huge human figures is perfectly visible against the green background when viewed from an airplane.
Residents of Atlantis
So who were these giant people? According to anthropologists, powerful people distinguished by their gigantic growth, or, as they are commonly called, Atlanteans, inhabited America, Europe, Asia Minor and the South Caucasus in prehistoric times.
The “Caucasian branch” of the Atlantean civilization, whose heyday was in the tenth millennium BC, was adjacent to the Aryan tribes in the north who settled in Eastern Europe, the Black Sea region and the Volga region.
Six thousand years ago, the Aryans moved to Western Asia and India. In the Black Sea region they encountered the Atlanteans. The civilized Atlanteans, who, judging by the myths, did not even eat meat, began to be crowded out by barbarians. This is apparently where the legends about the fight against the titans came from. So the history of the Atlanteans before the flood is a century of struggle with the Aryans.
Amazing ending
Scientists determine the date of the flood as 3247 BC. It was because of this monstrous catastrophe that Atlantis perished.
A terrible earthquake destroyed the Dardanelles Isthmus, and the waters of the Mediterranean flooded the coasts of the Marmara and Black Seas. Many Atlantean cities were under water. This marked the end of an ancient civilization. However, the Atlanteans did not disappear without a trace. A huge number of myths among different peoples tell about the giants of antiquity. The Atlanteans also had a great influence on the culture of the Slavs. After all, it was the giant Triptolemus who helped the Scythian-Slavs switch to agriculture. Most likely, the hero Svyatogor was also an Atlantean.
Caucasian crypt
As already mentioned, the remains of an ancient civilization are found here and there. So, in 1912, in one of the gorges of the North Caucasus (in the current territory of the Stavropol Territory) a crypt with the remains of giant people was found. The huge stone crypt had a low ceiling, and its interior walls were lined with tightly fitted stones. Four human skeletons lay exactly in the center. The bones amazed scientists with their size. The people who found their final refuge in the “Caucasian crypt” were one and a half times taller than modern people. All four skeletons were positioned with their heads to the west. Apparently, the giants were buried naked, since scientists did not find the remains of clothing in the crypt. Archaeologists were also struck by the peculiarity of the giants’ cranial bones. Just above the temples, the skulls had spherical growths the size of a little finger, which scientists dubbed “horns.”
Unfortunately, reports of this sensational discovery were soon replaced by even more sensational news of the sinking of the Titanic. The author was unable to clarify where the remains of the giants went...
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Indians and cannibal giants
Initially, the “Indian Wars” took place not between the American cavalry and Native American tribes, but between the Indian settlers and the primitive Native Americans - red-haired cannibal giants.
Thousands of years ago, giants roamed the east. Their primitive settlements and terrible customs instilled fear in the earlier indigenous settlers who wandered across the land bridge to the North American continent and went south and west into what would later be called the West and the Great Southwest in the United States.
The tribes still talk about the distant days when their ancestors fought fierce battles against the ravenous leaping giants - some standing twelve feet tall and taller - who roamed the land, attacking settlers , brutally capturing screaming women and crying children to later eat them.
Redheads reached a height of twelve feet
The Paiutes, a tribe of Native Americans who were native to parts of Nevada, Utah, and Arizona, told early white settlers of their predecessors' brutal wars with a savage race of white, red-haired giants. According to the Paiutes, these giants already lived in that area.
The Paiutes named the giants Si-Te-Ka, which literally means “reed eaters.” Reed is a fibrous aquatic plant that the giants used to build rafts to avoid constant attacks from the Paiutes. They traveled on rafts across Lake Lahontan.
As the Paiutes said, the red-haired giants reached twelve feet in height and were cruel and harsh. They killed and ate captured Paiutes.
Early Paiute settlers were told that after years of war, all their tribes had united to get rid of the giants.
One day, while they were hunting the remaining red-haired enemies, the fleeing giants disappeared into a cave. The tribe's warriors demanded that the enemy come out and fight them, but the giants resolutely refused to leave the shelter.
Upset that they were unable to defeat their enemy, the tribal leaders ordered the warriors to throw brushwood at the entrance of the cave and then set it on fire to drive the giants out of the cave.
Those who came out were immediately killed by a hail of arrows, and those who remained inside were suffocated.
Then an earthquake occurred in this place, and the entrance to the cave was blocked - the remaining space was only enough for bats.
Evidence of giants—men seven to twelve feet tall—is contained in fossil records and other artifacts recovered during excavations. Fragments of giant skeletons sometimes frightened sixteenth-century explorers.
Mounds and giants
These mounds are scattered throughout the Midwest from Tennessee to Wisconsin, as well as west to Oklahoma and east to western Virginia. Excavations of most of the mounds have yielded numerous artifacts and remains of medium-sized individuals.
However, in more ancient mounds, the remains of the skeletons of giants were found... giants with red hair.
Moreover, as for these mounds, they have all been explored. Several giant skeletons discovered in some mounds were rejected and destroyed as aberrations. Ten and twelve foot people did not fit into the framework of dogmatic theories. Usually, when giant skeletons were discovered, such finds were laughed at as if it were a joke. Unfortunately, conventional science has too much to lose by carefully examining the mounds.
Archaeologists cannot deny that mound builders actually existed. However, they deny the existence of some of the things found inside the mounds.
Over the past century and a half, it has been shown time and time again that certain hills and small pyramids served as burial sites for large people, eight feet tall and taller, who had a very complex culture. Some giants wore leather armor and were buried with swords. One such giant was discovered near Spyrow Mound in Oklahoma in the 1930s.
Strange message from San Diego
According to data from the Archaeological Society in San Diego on August 5, 1947, the mummified remains of giants were discovered near the wastelands of Arizona, Nevada and California. These remains were dressed in strange leather robes. The team of researchers tentatively dated the remains to be eighty thousand years old.
In 1931, retired Dr. F. Bruce Russell from Cincinnati (Ohio, USA; mixednews note) discovered several tunnels located near Death Valley. He could not return to this area until 1947 and asked for help from Dr. Daniel Bovey - the man who opened the cliff settlements in New Mexico to the world. The household items he found appeared in an issue of National Geographic Magazine.
With the help of Dr. Bovey, Russell recovered the remains of several giants, whose height was between eight and nine feet.
“These giants,” says Hill, “are covered with robes consisting of a medium-length shirt and trousers that flare out slightly at the knees. The texture of the material resembles gray dyed sheepskin, however, it is obvious that the skin belongs to an animal that is unknown to us today.”
Who were these mysterious people who roamed America long before the extinct woolly mammoth? Were they our ancestors or the ancestors of another race like the Neanderthals?
Red-haired giants have also been discovered in China
Little is known about these giants from North America beyond what has already been said, but there is one interesting fact:
About twenty years ago, during archaeological excavations in northern China, researchers stumbled upon the burials of twenty-two strange giants.
Each of them was nearly twelve feet tall and each wore leather armor; on their withered head there was hair... red hair.