Ancient Giants: History, Myth, and Scientific Evidence from around the World

219 Pages·2016·13.6 MB·English

by  Xaviant Haze

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