Giants
Myth or Reality?
In the human experience, giants are literally the "elephants in the
room". When our research first began on this paradigm, we had little
knowledge of how extensive the evidence of their existence was. We
now have a comprehensive database consisting of over 200 historical
descriptions; over half from the United States and the U.K. history,
alone. And, our unpublished files contain enough information to more
than triple the current data we now have online. Were one to
undertake a thorough study of giants and record all in detail, it
would certainly be a life's work.
The lack of the presence
of giants in orthodox history, academia, and anthropological studies
is appalling in light of the true historical records from every part
of the globe. Even more mysterious is the seemingly unanimous
decisions by the keepers of the world's museums and archeological
treasures to keep the physical evidence of giants hidden from public
view. Only a smattering of the evidence is available in obscure
locations. Thousands of skeletons and hundreds of historical reports
are ignored.
The accepted knowledge
among the world's peoples is that giants are the creatures of myth
and folklore, relegated to children's fairy tales and B grade horror
movies, an it is almost a crime not to include a giant in any
fantasy film or video game. The reality is that giants were present
throughout our history from ancient biblical accounts and historical
Roman military campaigns to the relatively modern genocide of the
natives of North America.
A Wealth of Evidence
Giants appear in the
legends of Australia, Bavaria, Belgium, Chad, Chile, China, England,
France, Germany, Greece, Holland, India , Italy, Kazakhstan, Laos,
Morocco, the Netherlands, Nova Scotia, Pakistan, Patagonia, the
Philippines, Poland, Rwanda, Russia, Scotland, Sicily, Spain,
Sweden, Switzerland, Terra del Fuego, Turkey, the United Sates,
Wales, Zanzibar, and the ancient Incan, Toltec, and Nordic cultures,
just to name a few.
Giants are everywhere; in our religions, our history, our
literature, and our folklore. Legends of extraordinarily tall humans
are found in almost every culture and, on almost every continent.
But, they are always viewed as mythical beings. Jack, the Beanstalk
kid, Paul Bunyan and his giant ox, and the travels of Gulliver are
familiar children’s stories in English literature. There are
festivals dedicated to giants, they are represented in paintings,
statues, and rock art, and even the Catholic Church has its own
giant saint; St. Christopher, who was so tall, he made a living as a
human ferry, transporting people on his shoulders across deep
rivers.
St. Christopher was
described by Jacques de Voragine in "The Golden Legend": "He was of
gigantic stature, had a terrifying mien, was twelve coudees tall.”,
(a coudee is equal to or larger than the English foot). According to
this ancient account, St. Christopher stood from 12 to 18 feet tall,
a fact that was erased from church history. While Western icons
don't picture St. Christopher as a giant, those of the Eastern
churches do. His story, in brief, is that his name was originally
Offro, or Offerus, and he was a giant of great strength, but of a
sensitive nature, traveling in search of the greatest God. He was
possibly of royal birth. His search eventually led him to a strange
occupation as a human ferry, hiring out to literally carry people
across rivers too deep for a normal human to cross. The legend has
it that Jesus was one of his customers. Jesus supposedly blessed
him, and told him that he had carried all the sins of the world on
his shoulders. After the giant had carried Jesus across a river he
asked St. Christopher to plant his great walking-staff in the
ground. At once, a wonderful tree miraculously sprang up."
Giants in the Bible
The Bible, alone, of all
the ancient writings describing giants, has scores of descriptions
of giant beings. Even the recently discovered Dead Sea Scrolls
contains a book called "The Book of Giants". The giant, Goliath, was
only one of many giants the Bible speaks of and, owing to the "best
seller in history” status of the Bible, he is the most famous. The
4th verse of Genesis 6 begins with: "There were giants in the earth
in those days". The word "giants" in Genesis 6:4 is translated from
the Hebrew word nphiyl, pronounced nef-eel'; properly, a feller,
i.e. a bully or tyrant. Many have been mistakenly led to believe
that the word "nphiyl", commonly thought to be the word Nephilim,
meant the "fallen ones", or "those who fell from heaven or the sky".
This mistake has been promoted by the proponents of theories created
by Zachariah Sitchin for decades, but has no basis in fact, as a
simple study of the word in any Hebrew lexicon, (dictionary), will
verify.
If there is any doubt
about the true meaning of this word, one only needs to go to very
next instance in the Bible where the word 'nphiyl' is used to get a
clear meaning. Moses describes a race of giants called the
Amalekites in the land of Canaan: "And there we saw the giants, the
sonown sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight."
(Numbers 13 33) Or, the next instance in order: "For only Og king of
Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold his bedstead was a
bedstead of iros of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in
our n; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits
was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the
cubit of a man." (Deuteronomy 3:11) Converted into modern terms,
this verse is stating that the bed of King Og is 14 feet long and 6
feet wide, making his estimated height to be 12 feet, (3.8 meters),
or taller.
Some Notable Examples Worldwide
♦ One of the most fascinating cases of giants in U.
S. history are the Smithsonian Giants. During the genocidal conquest
of the indigenous peoples of North America, the United States
Calvary and hired mercenaries encountered giants living among the
tribes, and engaged in direct combat with them. The mindset used to
justify the wholesale slaughter of many, and forced relocation of
the rest of these tribes, was that they were sub-human; their darker
skin being a key to this gross misconception. The giants they
encountered and killed were red-headed with white skin. Fearing a
backlash from the American people for killing whites, giants or not,
the government ordered that all bodies of these giants be retrieved
and shipped to the Smithsonian Institute, to hide the damaging
evidence. We have no idea if those bodies were ever disposed of, but
there is sufficient evidence available from the Smithsonian
officials and documentation of the time to believe this actually
occurred.
♦ Bones of giants have been
uncovered in the United States in New York, California, Ohio,
Tennessee, Illinois, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Missouri,
Nevada, Indiana, Minnesota, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Arizona, New
Mexico, and Kentucky from as early as 1792 to as late as 1965.
♦ The legends of early North
American tribes are rich with stories of giants, including the
Sioux, who told about giants that ran down the buffalo, and the
Algonquin stories of giant, bearded men that first occupied their
native lands. Individuals, from Columbus to Wild Bill Cody, gave
testimony to their existence in North America. Reports of giant
skeletons up to 25 and more feet being discovered were reported in
early history of the occupation of the United States.
♦ Early English history
describes, and even names, giants. Miss Marion, the 8-foot, six-inch
Queen of the Amazons, the 8-foot, four-inch George Auger, of the
1903 Barnum and Bailey Circus, Charles Byrne the towering
eight-foot-two-inch giant, who gained fame in the late 1700s in
London, are just three such giants. Bones of giants up to 13 feet
and taller have been uncovered all over the English landscape.
♦ In China, archaeologists have
found some of the earliest skeletal remains of giants, as much as
fifteen feet tall. Melchior Nunnez, in his letters from India,
vouches for the fact that some five hundred giants were used as
archers to guard the gates of Peking. George Hakewill, in his
Apologie, written in 1627, issued a similar report.
♦ A skeleton found in 1692 in a
tomb near Angers, France, measured seventeen-feet, four-inches. And,
in his "De Gigantibus", Joh Cassanio speaks of a giant in Bordeaux,
France that stood so tall, a man of ordinary size could walk between
his legs. He states that Francis I of France (1494-1547) enlisted
him as one of his guards.
♦ The Greeks had more than their
share of giants in their legends, including Agrius, Alcyoneus,
Aloeus, Alpus, Antaeüs, Arges, Atlas, Brontes, Chthonius, Clytius,
Coeus, Crius, Cronus, Damasen, Enceladus, Ephialtes, Epimetheus,
Eurytus, Gegenees, Gration, Hippolytus, Hopladamus, Hyperion,
Lapetus, Metis, Mimas, Mnemosyne, Oceanus, Orion, Orius, Otus,
Pallas, Peloreus, Phoebe, Polybotes, Porphyrion, Prometheus, Rhea,
Steropes, Talus, Tethys, Thea, Themis, Thoas, Thurius, and Typhoeus.
♦ At Agadir, in Morocco, the
French Captain Lafanechere discovered a complete arsenal of hunting
weapons, including five hundred double-edged axes weighing over
seventeen pounds, 20 times as heavy as would be convenient for
modern man. To use these tools would require the hands of a size
appropriate to a giant with a stature of at least 13 feet.
♦ Giants play an integral role in
the lore of the Norse gods, including Angr-boda, Asvid, Aurboda,
Aurvandil, Baugi, Beli, Bergelmir, Bestla, Bolthorn, Bolverk, Börr,
Brimer, Buri, Byleist, Eggther, Farbauti, Fjolvar, Gang, Geirrod,
Gerdh, Gilling, Gjalp, Grid, Gunnlauth, Gymir, Hela, Helblindi,
Hlebard, Hrauthung, Hreidmar, Hrimthurs, Hrod, Hrungnir, Hrym, Hymir,
Hyndla, Hyrrokin, Ide, Jarnsaxa, Jötunn, Laufey, Leirbrimir, Logi,
Mistblindi, Norfe, Odin, Orvandil, Skadi, Surt, Suttung, Thiassi,
Thrym, Thurs, Tjatsi, Trivaldi, Trym, Utgarda-Loki, and Vafthruthnir.
♦ Many mariners, such as
Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, Sir Francis Drake, Sir
Thomas Cavendish, Oliver Noort, Sebald de Weert, William Cowley,
George Spilbergen, and George Shelvock, reported encountering giants
in the logs of their voyages.
♦ In 1812, an Italian journal
reported that in the valley of Mazara, in Sicily, the skeleton of a
man ten-feet and three-inches in length was dug up in the same area
that several other human skeletons of gigantic size had previously
been found.
♦ In 1950, in the Euphrates
Valley of Southeast Turkey, many tombs containing giants 14 to 16
feet tall were unearthed.
The Giants of the Breitenwinner Cave - A Potential Breakthrough
In our
initial research to compile our database of giants in human history,
we dug deeply to find as many references to giants as possible. In
2003, we discovered an obscure document allegedly written by one
Berthold Buchner in 1535, which spoke of giant bones found in
Breitenwinner Cave in the Bavarian region of Germany. In the opening
of that document, Buchner, speaking of the exploration of the cave,
stated: "The marvels they saw there have been written down by
Berthold Buchner. The ignorant will not believe this story, the
experienced ones will not think it possible. But we have seen it
with our own eyes, and it is the truth." Further, in the 1535
recounting of his experience, Buchner goes on by documenting the
following: "When we crept in we found so many bones that the first
of us had to pile them up in one place to make room for us to enter.
The bones were very large as if from giants." And, "We came to a
narrow vault where we found a skull bigger than we had ever seen
before. "
Unfortunately, we were
dealing with a long-forgotten incident that occurred almost 500
years ago. We could only find one reference to this cave and the
giant bones, at the time, and wrote the following in our conclusion
to that document: "The 16th Century narrative is self explanatory.
The cave now lies in ruin, having been looted over the centuries, of
all the ancient treasures it once held." It was our belief that this
treasure of giant evidence, including the bones was forever lost to
history and the human experience.
Then, as fate would have
it, we received an email on November 8, 2007, which began: "You
wrote of Breitenwinner Cave in Bavaria. I just got out of the Army
and was stationed at the Joint Multinational Training Center, now
known as the Joint Multinational Readiness Center, a NATO training
facility which now surrounds this cave." The individual went on to
say: "Two friends also stationed here and myself accidentally
stumbled across this cave which was located near what we call
Checkpoint 35, those ever stationed here will know where that is. We
had a video camera with us and found thousands of bones that were of
huge proportion." We viewed the video, immediately made contact with
the person making this claim, established his credibility, and
contacted our media sources. Within 24 hours, the man who had
explored Breitenwinner Cave, was interviewed on a major radio show.
Danny, (last name held by
request), is a former combat photographer, with over 7 years in
service. He was forthcoming and seemed only interested in getting
the story out. His concern was focused on what he believes to be the
travesty of a mass burial site going unnoticed and treated with
absolutely no respect. The cave is now located in a "live fire
zone", being used for bombing practice for NATO training exercises.
Danny, in fact, knew nothing about the history of the Breitenwinner
Cave until long after he had explored the cave and done research on
it. Due to this, he was not looking for any evidence of giants when
he explored it and took a video of that exploration.
At the time of this
writing, anthropologists, universities, non-governmental
organizations, and researchers in the field are coming together to
attempt an official examination of the Breitenwinner Cave. If
successful, such an exploration could blow the lid off the cover-up
of this amazing paradigm and add a new dimension to the human
reality. The readers following this paradigm are asked to contact
any individuals that may be of help in exposing this phenomenon. The
evidence of giants in world history is overwhelming and the time has
come to reveal this fact to the world.
More Information
A documentation of an exploration of the Breitenwinner Cave
in 1535 by Berthold Buchner,
and the video of the recent exploration of that cave can be found
here:
The Giants of the Cave
A comprehensive database on giants can be found here:
Giants Were Among Us
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