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ANCIENT GIANTS “Ancient Giants is a well-researched blend of myth, legend, academic literature, newspaper accounts, and oral traditions attesting to the reality of giants in our past. The ubiquitous nature of giant lore is stunning in its own right, and the author takes us to every corner of the globe to display that this mystery is more than mere fiction. The fascination with giants exists to this very day and is firmly rooted in the collective unconscious, most likely because it is a historical reality. A very worthwhile addition to the ancient mysteries genre.” JIM VIEIRA, COAUTHOR OF GIANTS ON RECORD AND STAR OF HISTORY CHANNEL’S SEARCH FOR THE LOST GIANTS “Legends of giants permeate all cultures and eras. Isn’t it time we reviewed the evidence with open minds? Xaviant Haze does just that in Ancient Giants.” ANDREW GOUGH, HISTORICAL MYSTERIES DOCUMENTARY PRESENTER AND RESEARCHER “Ancient Giants is a whistle-stop tour of giant mythology and discoveries from around the globe. If you have ever wondered why giants seem to be a universal theme in mythology and religious lore, Xaviant provides a one-stop shop of the bizarre and spectacular world of oversize people.” BRUCE FENTON, AUTHOR OF THE FORGOTTEN EXODUS: THE INTO AFRICA THEORY OF HUMAN EVOLUTION CONTENTS Cover Image Title Page Epigraph Introduction. Antediluvian Structures Chapter 1. Ancient Giants of Ireland and Britain Chapter 2. Ancient Giants of France and Spain GIANT GAULS AND GARGANTUA OF FRANCE SPANISH GIANTS, FROM THE CANARY ISLAND GUANCHES TO THE BASQUE JENTILS Chapter 3. Ancient Giants of Italy and Germany ITALY’S MANY TOMBS OF GIANTS GERMANY: BAVARIAN CATACOMBS AND RHINELAND GIANTS Chapter 4. Ancient Giants of Russia Chapter 5. Ancient Giants of Malta and Greece MYSTERIOUS MEGALITHS ON MALTA, GOZO, AND COMINO ISLANDS GREEK GIGANTES Chapter 6. Israel and the Ancient Biblical Giants Chapter 7. Ancient Giants of Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Iran DARIUS THE GREAT AND IRAN’S ANCIENT PERSIAN EMPIRE IRAQ AND THE LEGEND OF GILGAMESH EGYPT’S GIANT PHARAOHS AND MUMMIES GIANT FOOTPRINTS AND GRAVES IN SYRIA Chapter 8. Ancient Giants of Africa Chapter 9. Ancient Giants of Australia, New Zealand, and Pacific Islands MAORI LEGENDS OF NEW ZEALAND AUSTRALIA’S DREAMTIME GIANTS PACIFIC ISLAND GIANTS Chapter 10. Ancient Giants of East Asia CHINA’S CORRIDOR OF GIANTS GIANT TRACES IN MALAYSIA AND THE PHILIPPINES JAPAN’S GIANT ARTIFACTS Chapter 11. Ancient Giants of India Conclusion. There Were Giants on the Earth! Appendix. Finding the Book of Giants TEXTS FRAGMENTS OF THE KAWĀN EXCERPTS QUOTATIONS AND ALLUSIONS APPENDIX Footnote Endnotes About the Author About Inner Traditions • Bear & Company Books of Related Interest Copyright & Permissions Index INTRODUCTION ANTEDILUVIAN STRUCTURES The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. GEORGE ORWELL Of all the ancient mysteries handed down by our ancestors, the megalithic monuments remain the most puzzling, especially given that their exact dates and methods of construction remain unknown. Also unknown are the actual builders of these immensely spectacular stone structures. Mainstream academia pretty much glosses over these megaliths that can be found all over the world, assigning their creation to the will of the people or slaves being forced to haul gargantuan stones, weighing tons upon tons. Lost or buried in the mainstream arguments explaining these megaliths are the native or local histories that attribute their construction to a race of giants from a forgotten era. The folklore of ancient Europe is full of tales starring giants who build massive stone monoliths and battle their way toward the Irish shores. The mysterious lands of Russia have also been slowly revealing their hidden ancient giant history with newly discovered megalithic structures being unearthed at a quickening pace. It seems there is a direct mythological connection between ancient giants and the prehistoric megalithic monuments that stand thousands of years later as immense rock icons of a lost civilization. Fig. I.1. Stonehenge, John Constable (watercolor, 1835) From the Holy Lands and across the oceans to the lands of the Native Americans, all of humankind’s earliest written and oral accounts speak of an advanced race of beings, commonly referred to as “giants.” These giants were supposedly a hybrid species fathered by a sophisticated culture that ruled Earth before the last great flood, as much as 11,500 years ago. In fact, modern science is pointing out daily that humans are a hybrid species by admitting that recent DNA tests on the Neanderthals and the newly discovered Denisovans indicate that they share genomes that come from a completely unknown, unidentifiable group of people.1 DNA from one Neanderthal discovered in a Siberian cave in 2013 suggests an interbreeding of multiple ancient humanlike groups in Europe and Asia more than thirty thousand years ago.2 These results also include an unknown human ancestor and paint a world full of varying characters similar to those found in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings universe. Could the genomes from the forgotten race of ancient giants provide the mysterious missing link those DNA hunters are looking for? Mainstream academia teaches that giants, cyclops, and other crypto- zoological beings are nothing more than myths, and the bones that ancient humans believed to be giant bones were misconstrued, being nothing more than prehistoric animal bones. That is the official (and end of) story for the establishment when the topic of ancient giants is discussed. But there is much more to this story, perhaps a bit too much more than many in high academic positions are prepared to admit (especially when doing so could jeopardize their livelihoods). Genesis 6:4 says: There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.3 In Hebrew versions of this passage the word Nephilim is used instead of giants; this controversial word is derived from the Hebrew verb nafol, and means “to fall,” implying that the Nephilim are the fallen race of giants who ruled the world before being destroyed by God in a global deluge that submerged the antediluvian realm. The Roman Jewish historian Flavius Josephus wrote about megalithic pillars (the great pyramids of Giza?) that were constructed before the flood by a race of giants who feared a global deluge. It was the hope that the monuments would survive to inspire future generations of humans. It turned out that not only did some of the monuments survive but so, too, did the giants. In The Antiquities of the Jews Flavius Josephus writes: These kings had laid waste all Syria, and overthrown the offspring of the giants. . . . There were still then left the race of giants, who had bodies so large, and countenances so entirely different from other men, that they were surprising to the sight, and terrible to the hearing. The bones of these men are still shown to this very day, unlike to any credible relations of other men.4
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