When I pull up an article on giants I never know if it will be the good, the bad or the ugly.
Enter the post Giant Humans on Earth, March 30, 2016 AD by the Interesting Theories site which self-describes as “a Science and Spiritual News Website to help evolve our civilization and help save the animals and people of Planet Earth.”
There are some encouraging words of encouraging within the post such as “I encourage you to do research on the subject. There is too much information out there.” Yet, it seems to head in a questionable direction, “After digging further it becomes apparent there is a lot of misinformation and deception going on to keep this information secret.” Also, when the post states, “There is clearly a lot of misinformation being thrown out there” it is true and yet the statement continues with “to throw people off of the real truth of our past. The world powers could be keeping this information secret for many reasons.” Sadly, the post itself becomes a promulgator of misinfo.
We are told, “I read this article from Fox News. It mentions a 20 foot skeleton that has been found with a 3.5 foot ‘hobbit’ that once lived on this Earth.” At first thought, I thought that this was actually the report of a crocodile skeleton and “a smaller, 3-foot-long relative”—20-Foot Fanged, Galloping Ancient Croc Fossils Found. However, I noticed a hyperlink to ‘Hobbit’ found in Indonesia may have gone extinct earlier than thought and about which I posted here: succinctly, the article is about “a tiny hominin” fossil found the Indonesian island of Floreswhich is thus, being called H. floresiensis and which was 3.6 ft. tall. The article merely throws in the statement that the fossil finds were “20-foot skeleton and bone fragments of as many as 10 individuals.” I wrote to Fox in order to ask about this as it would seem like a typo as nothing more is stated about it and am waiting to hear back—I know, I know but do not cry “Cover up!!!” quite yet.
We are then told that “More evidence” is “from the early 1900’s when the US Supreme court ordered the Smithsonian to release classified papers that they destroyed tens of thousands of giant human skeleton remains that were anywhere between 6 and 12 feet tall…from the article found here at world daily news.”
Well, this is from an obvious hoax-fake-satire piece that way too many people took at face value and did no fact checking follow up—see Did the Supreme Court prove that the Smithsonian destroyed giant skeletons?
Reference is made to the apocryphal “Book of Enoch” which is actually one of the books, plural of Enoch: they are referring to 1 Enoch aka Ethiopian Enoch—see here.
The key text seeks to add details to the Genesis 6 affair, as I term it, as the Enoch text states that the angels, the sons of heaven…took wives…teaching them sorcery, incantations, and the dividing of roots and trees. And the women conceiving brought forth giants. The Genesis text states There were giants [nephilim]…when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
We are then told, “Giants can be traced back to every civilization from Ethiopia, to Egypt, to the Mayans to the Native Americans.” Yet, the term “giant” tells us nothing about specific heights and only means taller than the average—the average Hebrew male of biblical times was 5.5 ft.
Somewhat generic reference is made to “two ancient Sumerian tablets” which “show a large giant king and a large giant to the left with 6 fingers and 6 toes” but at least photos are provided which are these.
This one is generally thought to be Gilgamesh from the epic tale about him which states that he was circa 14 ft. tall. I am presenting two versions of the statue: the one with the black background does seem to have six toes on the left foot although the pinky toe does not have a nail like the others which may denote that it is not a toe, is a superfluous toes that did not develop fully or, hey, is just a mistake by the carver. The one with the stone background is too hard to see. Neither have six fingered hands.
There are various versions of this tale the oldest of which seems to be Babylonian tablets from circa 1800 BC. The epic does not seem to tell us how many fingers and toes he had. Also, one such statue dates to 721-705 BC.
This is the one said to be of a “large giant king” which may just be. Yet, it may be depicting his superiority over his attendants. Also, they seem to be weighing a star so that is one super-extra-large-giant king. This may be Ur-Nammu aka Ur-Engur or Ur-Gur from circa 2047-2030 BC.
Other carvings may depict this same king either showing him with other giants or showing him with others within his government who are authoritative enough to be shown as more of an equal to him (such as a queen or priest/magi may be).
This very similar one is of King Hammurabi of Babylon.
The post states that “Other reports…have also shown the giants to have six fingers and six toes.” Yet, this is a non-issue and the article does not even elucidate why giants are being correlated with the number of fingers. However, I am aware that may claim that giants or some tribes of giants have six fingers and toes. From what I understand, this is simply based on a exaggeration of a misapplication of 2 Samuel 21:20 which states, “And there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant.” Even at face value, we are simply being told that one single person had this feature and nothing more is said about his tribe having them also nor about any other person having them whatsoever.
Even today there are people with this feature and it is simply the result of a genetic mistake whereby the genetic info for finger and toe construction is repeated one too many times. To claim that such people are of “Nephilim DNA” or some such thing (which the post in question does not do yet, many people do claim as much) is ignorant, abusive and even dangerous.
The post ends with the “Author’s Take” which concludes that “There seems to be a giant cover-up going on” in part by “the government.”
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