Giants Were Among Us
Giants have been
well documented not only in myth and legend, but also in the historical
and archeological record. More than just children's stories, many giants
were real people, living with close associations in real societies and
even ruling ancient kingdoms. 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. There is the giant of "Jack
and the Beanstalk" fame and, of course, it is almost a crime not to
include a giant in any fantasy film or video
game.
Gigantopithecus and Meganthropus are names given to giant hominids found
by paleontologists, but since they don't fit too well in the imaginary
evolutionary chain, they don't get much attention. Meganthropus is the
giant Java man who inhabited Southeast Asia over a million years ago. He
stood12 feet tall and weighed several hundred pounds. Java man was found
with stone implements consisting of hand axes, clubs, pounders, adzes,
knives, and other tools often ranging in weight from 8 to 36 lbs or more.
Artifacts, identical to those used by Meganthropus, have been found in
Australia. Gigantopithecus is often suspected of being the elusive Bigfoot
or Yeti.
Outside the scientific theater, there are a number of skeletons, skulls,
and footprints of giants as tall as 30 feet. They appear in almost every
culture's folklore and legend, most of them the "big bully" variety, and a
hero dispatches almost all. Theories about the builders of pyramids, stone
circles, and other monolithic examples of ancient construction find giants
as a possible answer. Big blocks mean big builders.
Even the Catholic patron saint of travel, St. Christopher, was, by all
accounts, a giant. Jacques de Voragine, in The Golden Legend, wrote of St.
Christopher: "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 Jesus as one of his customers. Jesus
blessed him and told him that he had carried on his shoulders all the sins
of the world. He then asked St. Christopher to plant his great
walking-staff in the ground. At once, a wonderful tree miraculously sprang
up. This was not the first time Jesus made a living tree grow from a
staff.
The lack of the presence of giants in orthodox history, academia, and
anthropological studies is appalling in light of the true historical
records form every part of the globe. Were one to undertake a thorough
study of giants and record all in detail it would certainly be a life's
work. 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 skeleton's
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. 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 Giant Cover-up
The Smithsonian
Giants
Rumored to be beneath the Vatican lie many levels of secret, impregnable
vaults that make up the legendary Vatican Archives. Supposedly
containing the plunder of millennia and the secrets of the ages, their
contents have filled the imaginations of countless generations.
Perhaps not equal in quality, but certainly rivaling in quantity, are the
archives of the Smithsonian Institution. And in those archives, open
only to government officials, lie the bones of many thousands of corpses
dug up, described and stored without study, many for over a century and a
half. Scores, if not hundreds, of these skeletons are considered
giants and yet, they lie deteriorating, not finding the slightest interest
from anthropologists. Wanting no part in rocking the neatly defined,
religiously correct American prehistory model, the researchers ignore them
now and there is no sign this will ever change.
Hidden in dark, inaccessible storage is a sad example of scientific
domination over social understanding and cultural history. Not to be
found in the history books, the science references or the classroom is
undeniable evidence that a race of giants had a prominent presence on the
North American continent. Also hidden from public understanding is
the fact that giants were among the native people who fell before the
colonial eradication crusade. Only the fortunate cultural conscience
of amateur historians, writing about the prominent events of their
individual communities, preserved easily accessible evidence of giants in
our North American
past.
Though there is much evidence in the written record of the Smithsonian it
is an overwhelming and disorganized system typical of a rapid and
misguided mass internment project. Meant more to verify the
inferiority of the accepted view that the natives standing in the way of
economic progress and religious dominance were a more savage and primitive
race of sub humans than a relevant culture, the die was cast. All
evidence, showing anything not fitting a Stone Age culture better
eliminated than trifled with or indicating anything that might warrant
serious study, was quietly filed away and warehoused in
obscurity.
We
have glimpses of a great society thriving on the North American continent
in total contradiction to historical propaganda. Throughout the
entire continent there were many great societies living from the land
while maintaining a high level of stewardship over it for thousands of
years. A harmony of cultural beliefs that paid homage to the
biosphere that so generously provided their needs, the value of life and
love and gods that ruled their existence, was their religion. But,
the colonial interlopers, who wanted to reap the generous harvest in the
name of profit, considered the moderate use of the land inefficient and
the natural way of life only a hindrance to progress. Even offers
from the native population to share the bounty was not enough. The
religious crusaders considered the native beliefs heathen, pagan, and in
need of
change.
To the invaders, the concept of living from the land without farms and
fences was totally impractical. The ridiculous practice of taking only
what was needed without any regard to profit was simply a sign of native
stupidity. The only thing the religious zealots understood about the
native beliefs was that they had to be changed at all cost, as quickly as
possible. And, as proof of all the colonial views, the natives
actually resisted the change, resulting in the entire race being labeled
as savages.
When science studied the indigenous population they found exactly what the
religious and commercial wanted them to find. Not only did the
natives act like primitives, they actually were primitives. Their
physical nature was classified as less developed then their European
superiors, their mental capacity was consider as woefully inadequate, and
even the color and shape of their eyes was considered as evidence of
primal and ferocious passions. Science justified the genocide by
lowering the value of the
victims.
With this racist mindset as the focus of research eventually done by the
Smithsonian, anything that might question the inferiority of the
indigenous peoples was not considered valid. Anything not dark
skinned, dark haired or dark eyed didn’t fit the mold, so it was
discarded. Any signs that these savages may have had contact with
other civilized societies might indicate they may possess some cultural
diversity, so that also was discarded. And the evidence of giants
posed the worst of all possible problems; they could create interest,
which might produce investigation, and could possibly expose the racist
conspiracy. Blond haired, blue eyed, white skinned or giant
corpses needed to quietly disappear, and they did, deep into the vaults of
the Smithsonian. Only the low browed, angle eyed, stocky corpses fit
the mold and only they were
studied.
The sad result is that the evidence of giants on the North American
continent is in storage in the dark warehouses of the Smithsonian.
We know of their presence from the catalog records that were kept by the
people who dug them up and boxed them away. For the present they are
only accessible to government officials with no explanation of the
secrecy. There is no interest in exploring this enigma because the
racist mindset toward the indigenous peoples of North America has only
changed from fear to pity. True understanding of the nature of these
proud people and the giants they lived with will never be achieved until
their culture comes out of the quaint gift shops and off the new age
bookshelves and into the scientific journals and the classroom.
The
evidence of giants in North America is extensive, but woefully simplistic,
mainly the discovery of skeletons and skulls. They were mainly dug
up, described in local history journals or newspapers, and then shipped
off to museums, never to be seen again. A few are still in the
public domain. It is the simple record of the discoveries and a few
privately held skeletons, bones or skulls that provide the only evidence
available.
Tribes of Giants
In the Bible and
Around the World
