On this site they keep appearing for different reasons: as children of Lot, as the people who took the land of the giant Emim, as worshippers of Chemosh, and as one of the nations that each had their own Elohim.
Rephaites explains the names: the Moabites called these giants Emim, the Ammonites called them Zamzummim, and both were counted among the Rephaim.
the Cyclopes stand in a wider pattern of crediting old walls to giants.
Giants worldwide
This page is the whole of The Giant Hands; or, The Reward of Industry by Alfred Crowquill, printed in London and New York by G.
THE GIANT HANDS:OR,THE REWARD OF INDUSTRY.
Jack the Giant Killer.
The giants of Genesis 6 never speak.
In the Book of Giants they do.
There is also an earlier video on the site, Book of Giants, and the book card.
Henning published fragments of a Manichaean Book of Giants in 1943.
remained unknown to scholars until 1943, when fragments of several Middle Iranian versions of the Book of Giants were published by W.
It names a book about a giant called Ogia, who is said to have fought a dragon after the flood.
In my translation that is: the book of the giant named Ogia, who is said by heretics to have fought a dragon after the flood, apocryphal.
The giants are sons of the Watchers.
The giants take fright and send Mahaway to ask Enoch what it means.
In 4Q531 someone who sounds like a giant admits that he cannot beat the angels who live in heaven.
The giant Humbaba guarded that forest in the epic.
He will appear as one of the great warriors from the mythical past, present only in spirit, to whom the giant Ohya comes to ask for an interpretation of his dream, thus playing a similar role than Enoch.
He is already dead, and the giants consult his spirit.
Henning's Fragment j has Hōbābīš robbing another giant of his wife (p.
Mani wrote his own Book of Giants.
Henning held that he wrote it in Syriac, and that the Persian and Sogdian names for the giants came later from translators (p.
In the Manichaean texts the giant Ohya has a sea monster to fight.
The Egrēgoroi and their giant progeny are fought and vanquished by four archangels: Raphael, Michael, Gabriel, and Istrael
In the Book of Enoch the giants are the problem the angels solve.
I hold both pictures open: giants as monsters, and giants as people who can be afraid.
Marro lists the Anakim, Gibborim, Nephilim and Refaim as Bible names for these giants (p.
The book also shows how far the giant tale travelled.
Marro says the tales of giants "pervaded the ancient literature", and he names Turfan, Mesopotamia, the Bible and Greece (p.
That is the ground I cover in Giants Worldwide.
The Book of Giants never names Atlantis.
There are giants, Watchers, dreams of fire and water, and a flood at the end of Hahyah's dream.
Marro reads Mahaway as a winged giant, in the family of the Mesopotamian demons Pazuzu and Shedu (p.
Every manuscript of the Book of Giants is torn, and there are many copies.
This book moves the question about the giants of Genesis 6.
Here the giants tell it, and it survived in two places: a library by the Dead Sea and the writings of a prophet in Persia.
Book of Giants (video): the earlier video on the site.
The Book of Giants: The Fragments, One by One: the fragments retold, with short quotes.
Who Were the Nephilim?: the giants of Genesis 6 and the sons of God.
Book of Enoch: the book the Book of Giants grew beside.
The Book of Giants was lost after the fourth century, when the church banned the Enochic writings.
One is Iñaki Marro Sánchez, The Book of Giants: A Critical Edition of the Aramaic Fragments in their Ancient Scribal and Tradition-Historical Context, a Munich dissertation of 2026.
Henning, "The Book of the Giants", Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 11 (1943), pages 52 to 74.
My own review is The Book of Giants: What the Fragments Say.
The book card is here, and the video is Book of Giants.
The giants of this book are the sons of the Watchers, the same people as the Nephilim.
Marro lists the biblical names Anakim, Gibborim, Nephilim and Refaim as the giants of the Bible (p.
He adds that the giant this manuscript names is Ohyah, not Og (p.
Judgment is announced against him, and the other giants rejoice over him.
Then two giants dream in the same night.
The giants cannot interpret the dream.
At that point all the giants become afraid.
they called Mahaway, and he came to the as[em]bly of[ his companions (?) (and)] the giants.
In column 7 ii Mahaway goes on a journey through the desert, and Marro reads him there as a winged giant, in the family of the Mesopotamian demons Pazuzu, Shedu and Lamaštu (p.
One passage in 4Q531 is a speech by someone who sounds like a giant, though the fragment does not name him.
Gilgamesh, the hero of the Epic of Gilgamesh, is here someone the giants go to for an answer.
The giants are not one voice.
Henning held that Mani wrote a Book of Giants in Syriac and that his followers translated it into Middle Persian and Sogdian.
The Persian translators renamed the giants.
The story of the fallen angels and their giant sons needed little adaptation to be fitted into Mani's system.
In Fragment j the giants turn on each other.
Thereupon the giants began to kill each other and [to abduct their wives].
Giants, and what he will not believe.
He holds that there were giants before and after the flood, greater than other men in size and strength.
He throws out the Arabic story of the giant Og, enemy of Noah, and the tale that a beard Og tore out became a cedar forest from which Noah built the ark (Tomus II, p.
He asks with how artificial a work she has elaborated bones of a giant size, and horns of a prodigious length, in her hidden workshops, and with what sagacity she has drawn fossil wood under the earth, and plants of an incredible fabric, corals, out of the rocks of the sea.
Much later, still in the second section of this book, he comes to giants, because he has been talking of bones of a giant size.
He asks, when giants are mentioned, whether they are to be understood only of strength and of manhood, or also of a mass of body.
He says it is now clear, from men seen in the Strait of Magellan, that men of a good proportion can exceed the ordinary stature by half, or even by more, and that no giant of the kind he has just discussed was invented in our age.
Giants of that kind, before and after the flood, that is, more eminent than other men both in size and in strength, are to be held as certain.
The Arabic history, or rather the fabulous description of the giant Og, surpasses, he says, every conception of the human imagination in its monstrosities.
Og the giant, survivor both before and after the flood, was engaged in a notable and irreconcilable enmity with Noah, and continually sought him for slaughter.
Noah could not resist so great a vastness, and hid himself in the caves of the mountains, which the huge mass of the giant's body could not enter.
Once, when the giant could not catch Noah as he fled, he threw after him a beard he had torn out.
Kircher says he gives this for the mind's sake, and that the recent history of giants is empty and ridiculous.
He also throws out the Sicilian tales of giant corpses.
He asks how a vaulted chapel could hold a corpse of sixty-six palms, and he says the teeth sold as giants' teeth are the teeth of mineral fossils.
Fazelus on the like giant corpses in Sicily is, he says, mere fable, or else it fails on the demonstrated facts.
No one will persuade him that there were never giants in the world.
Sacred literature teaches otherwise, from Genesis 6: there were giants on the earth in those days, and they were powerful from of old, famous men.
What Berosus writes of the giants, and of the city of the giants, Enon, on Mount Lebanon, has, as he sees it, no credit with historians, and those fables are no more to be ascribed to history than all the other things the old gentile historians and Homer write of the Giants, the Titans, and the Cyclopes, and the births from heaven and earth.
The recent histories of giants rest on nothing, he says, except to show how nature generates a substance of this kind in subterranean places.
He accepts giants before and after the flood as greater men.
He does not accept Og, and he does not accept the subterranean bones as the corpses of those giants.
In plants, pine and palm gradually displaced the giant tree ferns.
Secondary sources based on the Cayce material describe these as “hordes of huge beasts,” “giant members of the animal kingdom,” or animals that threatened human populations.
Radiocarbon and other dating methods show the last appearances or sharp reductions of many large species (e.g., giant ground sloths, certain elephant-like animals, large carnivores) cluster in this window, especially in Australia where extinctions were largely complete by ~50,000 years ago.
Cayce directly links this phrase to the biblical account in Genesis 6:1-4, where the “sons of God” saw the “daughters of men” and took them as wives, leading to corruption and the Nephilim/giants.
Jim Charles clarifies that they were tall but not considered giants by modern standards, around 2 meters (6.56 feet) tall.
This seemed aflame, in shape like a giant spear-head, and it cast a light of intense power over all things around, yet one could look at its steady, unwavering white glow without desiring shade for the eyes, even though these were not strong.
This skull was placed within an orichalcum shield beneath the giant Tua crystal, which was secreted within the sanctum sanctorum of Poseidon’s temple.
That’s when Avalon will emerge from the mists, and I will be with my giant, daughter, and son once more.
During the exorcism, he stood over her, shouting in Latin, waving giant rosary beads and holding up an iron cross.
He is the prophet famously associated with being swallowed by a giant fish (often called a “whale” in popular retellings) and then being spit out after repenting.
And still the black giant arose, awful in gloom and blood-stained mantle, till the earth around became as a solemn night before a battle of death.
In Greek mythology, the Gigantomachy was the great war in which the Olympian gods, led by Zeus, fought the Giants, the monstrous offspring of Gaia, to maintain cosmic order.
The Giants were born to overthrow the gods and attacked by hurling rocks and trees.
They buried many Giants under volcanoes, confirming civilized rule over primal chaos.
In Norse mythology, the Aesir gods, among them Odin and Thor, fought an ongoing conflict with the Jotunn (giants) of Jotunheim, who stand for chaos and the wild forces of nature.
Thor often battled frost and fire giants to protect Asgard and Midgard.
Giant's Dance
It was placed within an orichalcum shield (a golden-colored bronze alloy used extensively in Atlantis for energy transmissions, later inherited by the people of Khem/Egypt) beneath the giant Tua crystal in the sanctum sanctorum of Poseidon’s temple.
Myths of ice giants describe this.
No other land has been the homeland of such mighty men of thought as grace your scrolls of fame.13. A host of sturdy giants of philosophy, of poetry, of science, and of art, were born upon the soil of Greece, and rocked to manhood in your cradle of pure thought.14. I come not here to speak of science, of philosophy, or art; of these you are the world's best masters now.15. But all your high accomplishments are but stepping stones to worlds beyond the realm of sense; are but illusive shadows flitting on the walls of time.16. But I would tell you of a life beyond, within; a real life that cannot pass away.17. In science and philosophy there is no power strong enough to fit a soul to recognise itself, or to commune with God.18. I would not stay the flow of your great streams of thought; but I would turn them to the channels of the soul.19. Unaided by the Spirit-breath, the work of intellection tends to solve the problems of the things we see, and nothing more.20. The senses were ordained to bring into the mind mere pictures of the things that pass away; they do not deal with real things; they do not comprehend eternal law.21. But man has something in his soul, a something that will tear the veil apart that he may see the world of real things.22. We call this something, spirit consciousness; it sleeps in every soul, and cannot be awakened till the Holy Breath becomes a welcome guest.23. This Holy Breath knocks at the door of every soul, but cannot enter in until the will of man throws wide the door.24. There is no power in intellect to turn the key; philosophy and science both have toiled to get a glimpse behind the veil; but they have failed.25. The secret spring that throws ajar the door of soul is touched by nothing else than purity in life, by prayer and holy thought.26. Return, O mystic stream of Grecian thought, and mingle your clear waters with the flood of Spirit-life; and then the spirit consciousness will sleep no more, and man will know, and God will bless.27. When Jesus had thus said he stepped aside.
It is the matchless wisdom of the master minds of Greece, united in a master mind.18. This giant mind has taken to itself the substances of soul, and thinks, and hears, and speaks.19. It will remain a living soul while master minds feed it with thought, with wisdom and with faith and hope.20. But when the master minds of Greece shall perish from the land, this giant master mind will cease to be, and then the Delphic Oracle will speak no more.
and were they slain as punishment for some great crime?26. And Jesus said, We cannot look upon a single span of life and judge of anything.27. There is a law that men must recognise: Result depends on cause.28. Men are not motes to float about within the air of one short life, and then be lost in nothingness.29. They are undying parts of the eternal whole that come and go, lo, many times into the air of earth and of the great beyond, just to unfold the God-like self.30. A cause may be a part of one brief life; results may not be noted till another life.31. The cause of your results cannot be found within my life, nor can the cause of my results be found in yours.32. I cannot reap except I sow and I must reap whate'er I sow,33. The law of all eternities is known to master minds:34. Whatever men do unto other men the judge and executioner will do to them.35. We do not note the execution of this law among the sons of men.36. We note the weak dishonoured, trampled on and slain by those men call the strong.37. We note that men with woodlike heads are seated in the chairs of state;38. Are kings and judges, senators and priests, while men with giant intellects are scavengers about the streets.39. We note that women with a moiety of common sense, and not a whit of any other kind, are painted up and dressed as queens,40. Becoming ladies of the courts of puppet kings, because they have the form of something beautiful; while God's own daughters are their slaves, or serve as common labourers in the field.41. The sense of justice cries aloud: This is a travesty on right.42. So when men see no further than one little span of life it is no wonder that they say, There is no God, or if there is a God he is a tyrant and should die.43. If you would judge aright of human life, you must arise and stand upon the crest of time and note the thoughts and deeds of men as they have come up through the ages past;44. For we must know that man is not a creature made of clay to turn again to clay and disappear.45. He is a part of the eternal whole.
Suddi told me once that he was descended from the house of David, so I asked if he had heard of a story about David that involved a giant.
D : Was he really a giant?
Key themes include origins tied to Noah’s descendants, earth-centered deities like Mari, giants (jentilak or mairu), and nature spirits.
Hercolubus, also known as the Red Planet or occasionally spelled Ercolubus in variants, refers to a hypothetical giant celestial body described in esoteric literature as approaching Earth and causing apocalyptic events.
For instance, no red giant planet has been detected approaching, and past doomsday predictions tied to similar ideas have failed.
And why do you think the Washington monument in the centre of Washington DC is a giant obelisk?
Among the ruins, Tellinger discovered fossilized body parts of humanoids, animals, and reptilian creatures, some with large scales indicating giant beings.