Giants are a common theme in mythology and folklore from cultures around the world, often representing natural forces, obstacles, or the remnants of older, forgotten worlds.
Here's an overview of some of the most notable myths and folklore about giants from various cultures:
In Norse mythology, giants, or Jotnar, are often the enemies of the gods.
Giants come in various types, including frost giants and fire giants, and play crucial roles in many myths, including the creation of the world and the events leading to Ragnarok, the end of the world.
The Greeks had several myths involving giants.
The Gigantomachy was a battle between the gods of Olympus and the Giants, born from the blood of Uranus.
Another group of giants in Greek mythology were the Titans, who were overthrown by the Olympian gods.
There were also the Cyclopes, one-eyed giants who were skilled craftsmen.
Giants are prevalent in the folklore of Britain and Ireland.
One of the most famous stories is that of Jack the Giant Killer, a young man who outwits and defeats several giants.
In Irish mythology, the giant Fionn mac Cumhaill is said to have built the Giant's Causeway as stepping-stones to Scotland.
The Basques have tales of giants called Jentilak, believed to be the builders of the ancient megaliths found in the Basque Country.
According to legend, these giants disappeared after the arrival of Christianity, throwing their idols into the sea.
Native American tribes have various myths involving giants.
For example, the Paiute of Nevada talk about a race of red-haired giants called the Si-Te-Cah, who were said to be cannibals.
Meanwhile, the Navajo speak of the Ye’iitsoh, a giant who was slain by the hero twins.
In Hindu mythology, there are several giant figures, including the Asuras and Rakshasas, who often battle with the gods.
Japanese folklore contains several giant creatures, such as the Oni, formidable ogre-like creatures that often appear as antagonists in folk tales.
In Slavic mythology, giants are often associated with natural elements.
For example, the Russian folklore character Svyatogor is a giant hero who embodies the power of the mountains.
1883 illustration by the Smithsonian's Bureau of Ethnology depicting the killing of the last of the "stone giants," a cannibalistic group that came from the "west" to Seneca lands.
The Fourth Race was the Nephilim -- a Being of Giant stature and hated by all.
The Nephilim Giants were then systematically wiped out.
Vibrational change on this planet
And there was a war between the beings from the sky and the Giants on Earth that were held in a part of the Middle East and India.
Giants were at war with the Nephal
Book of Giants
The "Book of Giants" is an ancient Jewish pseudepigraphal work, which is part of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Here are some key aspects of the "Book of Giants":
This suggests that the "Book of Giants" was a part of the Jewish apocryphal writings.
The book elaborates on the brief biblical mention of the giants.
It includes detailed narratives about the lives, activities, and ultimately the destruction of these giants.
The giants are depicted as engaging in significant battles and possibly corrupting various species on earth.
The "Book of Giants" shares themes and ideas with the "Book of Enoch," particularly the first part of it (1 Enoch 1–36), known as the Book of the Watchers.
These texts together develop the story of the fallen angels (Watchers) and their giant offspring.
The Amorites may also have been giants.
Goliath
Goliath: Goliath was a giant warrior from the Philistine army.
Giant Stature: Goliath was described as a giant, standing at about six cubits and a span in height, which is often translated to be approximately 9 feet 9 inches (about 2.97 meters) tall.
David passed the test by defeating the giant serpent and cutting off his head.
David was better than Saul, the tall man who feared the Philistine giant (1 Samuel 17:11).
Rephaim: A people believed to be giants, living in Ashteroth-Karnaim.
Emim: Another group of giants, dwelling in Shaveh Kiriathaim.
The Anakim are identified as a tribe of the Rephaites in Deuteronomy 2:11, a group often described as giants or mighty warriors in ancient texts.
The Israelites associated the Anakim with the Nephilim, the giants mentioned in Genesis 6:4, indicating their perceived extraordinary size and strength.
This leads to the theory that the Philistine giants, including Goliath, were descendants of the Anakim.
It seems Chedorlaomer fought three groups of giants—the Rephaim (the Septuagint actually translates Rephaim in Genesis 14:5 as γίγαντας, “giants”), the Zuzim (which is probably the Zamzummim of Deuteronomy 2:20), and the Emim (Deuteronomy 2:10-11).
The Amorites may also have been giants.
What is all the more fascinating is that Abraham then went and defeated Chedorlaomer—the giant killer—in order to rescue his nephew Lot (Genesis 14:14-17).
Thus Abraham’s victory in Genesis 14 is a foretaste of Joshua’s later victories over the giants in the land of Canaan.
Their association with the Repha'im, a group often characterized as giants or mighty warriors, further emphasizes these themes.
Zuzites
The Zuzim are mentioned alongside the Emim, a tribe later identified in the Book of Deuteronomy as the Moabite term for the Rephaim, a race of giants or mighty people in ancient texts.
Rephaites
King Og of Bashan (Giant)
The concept of "Rephaites" or "Repha'im" in the Hebrew Bible is multifaceted, encompassing both an ancient race of giants in Canaan and beings associated with the afterlife.
The 200 Grigori
The Grigori (from Greek egrḗgoroi, "The Watchers") are a group of fallen angels described in biblical apocrypha, who mated with women, giving rise to a race of hybrids known as the Nephilim—called giants in Book of Genesis 6:4.
And the women conceiving brought forth giants,
Mu & Atlantis history
Giant Nation people.
They were giants compared to humans.
The Hebrew word Nephilim is sometimes translated as “giants“, and sometimes taken to mean “the fallen ones”.
[4] There were giants, in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God Assendence of Aesir came in unto the daughters of men human, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men human which were of old, men human of renown – Methuselah, Lamech, Adam, Seth..
Of the Nephilim it is said that they were giants and savages that endangered and pillaged humanity.
"And they became pregnant, and they bare great giants, whose height was three thousand ells: Who consumed all the acquisitions of men.
And when men could no longer sustain them, the giants turned against them and devoured mankind.
And the women have borne giants, and the whole earth has thereby been filled with blood and unrighteousness.
They are described as a race of giants, descendants of Anak, and are associated with the land of Canaan.
The term "Nephilim" is also used in the Bible, particularly in the Book of Genesis, and is often associated with giants or mighty warriors of ancient times.
The spies reported back that they saw the Anakim there, a formidable race of giants, causing fear among the Israelites.
Some interpret them as giants, others as fallen angels or powerful rulers.
Above is the killing of a Nephilim Giant at Diana's Vow, Zimbabwe.
Above -- The giant Nephilim at Lake Chivero, Zimbabwe.
Numbers 13 is the key passage on giants in the land of Canaan.
In 1 Enoch, they were "great giants, whose height was three hundred cubits".
The majority of ancient biblical translations – including the Septuagint, Theodotion, Latin Vulgate, Samaritan Targum, Targum Onkelos, and Targum Neofiti – interpret the word to mean "giants".
These works describe the Nephilim as being evil giants.
The people of Ād are said to be giants, the tallest among them 100 ft (30 m) high.
Certain wise men of old wrote concerning them, and say in their [sacred] books that angels came down from heaven and mingled with the daughters of Cain, who bare unto them these giants.
But when they transgressed and mingled with the children of Cain, and begat children, ill-informed men said, that angels had come down from heaven, and mingled with the daughters of men, who bear them giants.
In some readings of the non-canonical texts, the Nephilim are children whose father is an angel and whose mother is a human and they are the "giants" (also known as Gibborim) referred to in the canonical Book of Numbers.[12] In others, angels and human women produce children who are Gibborim, and the Nephilim have fathers who are Gibborim and human mothers
In The Book of Giants we find:
Their even more corrupt offspring, the giants, were variously called thereafter nephilim, gibborim, or rephaim, being the earthly half-breed races that fought against God and his righteous followers whose numbers diminished as the world was overwhelmed with corruption and evil.
The Book of Giants is an expansive narrative of the biblical story of the birth of "giants" in Genesis 6.1-4.
In this story, the giants came into being when the Watcher "sons of God" (who, per the story's corroborative Jubilees account [Jub 4:15; 5:6],[5][19] God originally dispatched to earth for the purpose of instructing and nurturing humanity "in proper ritual and ethical conduct," "to do what is just and upright upon the earth") were seduced by and had sexual intercourse with human women, who then birthed a hybrid race of giants.
These Watchers (grigori) and giants (nephilim) engaged in destructive and grossly immoral actions which devastated humanity, including the revealing of heaven's holy "secrets" or "mysteries to their wives and children" and to mankind generally.
Nephites
The Hebrew word Nephilim is sometimes translated as "giants", and sometimes taken to mean "the fallen ones".
Some interpret them as giants, others as fallen angels or powerful rulers.
Root Races
In consequence of this [black magic], war was declared, the story of which would be too long to narrate; its substance may be found in the disfigured allegories of the race of Cain, the giants, and that of Noah and his righteous family.
Despite the chaos, several species survived: fish (such as sharks), birds, small mammals (your ancestors), various reptiles such as crocodiles… and there were the giant dinosaurs you call tyrannosaurs.
This force field has a variety of abilities, such as being able to levitate and operate a giant airship.
In this Norse myth, the god Odin bets with the giant Hrungnir that his horse Sleipnir is faster than the giant's horse, Gullfaxi.
The giants create a clay giant to aid Hrungnir, but Thor's clever servant tricks Hrungnir, allowing Thor to kill him with his hammer, Mjöllnir.
One day, Óðin staked his head on a wager with the giant Hrungnir that his horse Sleipnir was faster than the giant's horse, Gullfaxi.
Óðin invited the giant into his hall Valhöll, to enjoy the hospitality of the gods.
He arrived and was outraged to find a giant drinking with the gods.
The giants, realizing the importance of the duel, decided to make a man of clay so large that Þór would quake at the sight of it.
However, they could find no heart for the clay giant, so they used one from a mare.
At that moment, Þór hurled Mjöllnir at the giant.
Meanwhile, Þjálfi attacked the clay giant.
The giant was so terrified that he wet himself.
Þjálfi hacked away the giant's legs, and he fell with little glory.
Even the Æsir were not strong enough to move the dead giant's leg off of Þór's neck.
Their mental superiority and command of the arts gave them the character of giants who arrived from the East; who had divided into two great emigrations, one moving eastward (toward Europe), the other westward (toward America).
"There were giants in those days," says the Bible.
A great deal of the Central American history is taken up with the doings of an ancient race of giants called Quinames.
They stayed in giant platforms around Earth, processing ore from our planet and sending it to Nibiru after refinement.
He is often depicted wielding his powerful hammer, Mjölnir, to combat giants and other foes.
Norse mythology is rich with stories, adventures, and complex relationships among its gods, giants, and other mythical creatures.
English Translation (by Henry Adams Bellows): Out of the south dropped venom into the world to lecherous giants; it became a dragon of enormous size.
Garm howls loudly before Gnipa-cave; I know of a bad deed, when a son of the giants will follow Fenrir.
Garmr, the wolf, howls, and a son of the giants follows Fenrir.
This son of the giants will capture Odin, who is often referred to as the “father of men,” and give him to the wolf.
Odin is called the “slayer of Beli” and is described as “bright.” Surtr, a powerful fire giant, emerges with a mighty sword.
The Chronicle of Akakor
He spoke of giant stone cities and subterranean settlements of the divine ancestors.
The Anunnaki are giants compared to man today, with olive complexions and dark eyes.
In 1 Enoch, they were "great giants, whose height was three hundred cubits".
The majority of ancient biblical translations – including the Septuagint, Theodotion, Latin Vulgate, Samaritan Targum, Targum Onkelos, and Targum Neofiti – interpret the word to mean "giants".
These works describe the Nephilim as being evil giants.
The people of Ād are said to be giants, the tallest among them 100 ft (30 m) high.
Certain wise men of old wrote concerning them, and say in their [sacred] books that angels came down from heaven and mingled with the daughters of Cain, who bare unto them these giants.
But when they transgressed and mingled with the children of Cain, and begat children, ill-informed men said, that angels had come down from heaven, and mingled with the daughters of men, who bear them giants.
In some readings of the non-canonical texts, the Nephilim are children whose father is an angel and whose mother is a human and they are the "giants" (also known as Gibborim) referred to in the canonical Book of Numbers.[12] In others, angels and human women produce children who are Gibborim, and the Nephilim have fathers who are Gibborim and human mothers
In The Book of Giants we find:
Their even more corrupt offspring, the giants, were variously called thereafter nephilim, gibborim, or rephaim, being the earthly half-breed races that fought against God and his righteous followers whose numbers diminished as the world was overwhelmed with corruption and evil.
The Book of Giants is an expansive narrative of the biblical story of the birth of "giants" in Genesis 6.1-4.
In this story, the giants came into being when the Watcher "sons of God" (who, per the story's corroborative Jubilees account [Jub 4:15; 5:6],[5][19] God originally dispatched to earth for the purpose of instructing and nurturing humanity "in proper ritual and ethical conduct," "to do what is just and upright upon the earth") were seduced by and had sexual intercourse with human women, who then birthed a hybrid race of giants.
These Watchers (grigori) and giants (nephilim) engaged in destructive and grossly immoral actions which devastated humanity, including the revealing of heaven's holy "secrets" or "mysteries to their wives and children" and to mankind generally.
The Fourth Race was the Nephilim -- a Being of Giant stature and hated by all.
The Nephilim Giants were then systematically wiped out.
Age limit to 120 years
There were giants before and after the Great Flood (12,800BCE)
were giants
[1] And it came to pass, when men human began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,[2] That the sons of God Assendence of Aessir saw the daughters of men human that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.[3] And the LORD Enlil said, My spirit appearance shall not always strive with man altered humans, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be limited to an hundred and twenty 120 years.[4] There were giants, Nemhir, in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God Assendence of Aessir came in unto the daughters of men human, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men human which were of old, men human of renown - Methuselah, Lamech, Adam, Seth..[5] And GOD Anu saw that the wickedness rebellion of man altered humans was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.[6] And it repented the LORD Enlil that he had made man altered humans on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.[7] And the LORD Enlil said, I will destroy man altered humans whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man altered humans, and altered beast, and the altered creeping thing, and the altered fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.[8] But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD Enki.[9] These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man altered human and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God Anu.
Giants -> nephilem
[4] There were giants, Nemhir, in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God Assendence of Aesir came in unto the daughters of men human, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men human which were of old, men human of renown - Methuselah, Lamech, Adam, Seth..
Our conceptors added to their alien genetics the DNA of the most evolved and adapted species of that era, a giant lemur, now long extinct, just like they did to create your species much later with the DNA of another evolved large primate that you call Anthropopitecus.
Those artificially produced species, including giants, dragons and monsters, were used as slaves and soldiers in wars against the Star Council of Elders, that were still based in Mu.
The exact nature of Mímir's being is unclear; sources vary on whether he was considered an Aesir god or a giant.
Enclosed garden
Their height in these early days was about ten or twelve feet--truly a race of giants--but through the centuries their stature gradually dwindled, as did that of all the races in turn, and later on we shall find they had shrunk to the stature of the "Furfooz man." Link
The destruction of Niflheim is said to have led to the creation of the first beings in the universe, including the giant Ymir.