THE LOST WORLD OF GIANTS
INTRODUCTION
Can you imagine it? Perhaps at this moment you are seated in a room that has a 2.5 meter (8 foot) ceiling. So now, fill up the room with the alligator's head and upper body, then walk out and back through the whole house. That's all alligator. Essentially, everything in the fossil record was larger in the past than it is today. The environmental conditions of that early world would exercise the full genetic viability of all life forms. There is evidence that the earth supported plant and animal life of fantastic size and numbers. The fossil record shows that all terrestrial life has decreased in size. The largest members of the animal kingdom are either becoming extinct, or shrinking as if touched by a magic wand. Mammals were often twice the size of their current counterparts. There
were kangaroos as large as today's hippopotamuses, with skulls a meter
long. Sheep were as big as today's horses. Frogs were 6
to 10 feet (2
to 3 meters), with
heads half a meter long - and jaws more powerful than those of a modern
ox. Fossil eagles have been found; these birds were 40
feet (13 meters) long
and 12 feet (4
meters) high. Oh yes, and lobsters 6
feet (2 meters) long. Australian koalas were as big as rhinos. In the northwest of South Australia, between 500 and 1,000 skeletons were found of a colossal wombat as large as a rhinoceros! It was given the name Diprotodon. In New Zealand zoologists from Christchurch chipped out of a cave roof the fossil skeleton of a penguin 7 feet (2.2 meters) tall. On the Matakaoa foreshore, near Te Araroa, were found preserved prints of a huge animal. The prints extended for some distance. Some were 28 inches (70 centimeters) in breadth. Personnel at the Dominion Museum suggested the tracks might be those of either the Megatherium or the Labrynthodon, huge mammals estimated to have weighed up to 30 tons. The Assistant-Director of the Auckland Institute and Museum wrote an article for the Auckland Star and objected to the foregoing information, since "such a statement is not in accordance with the modern scientific view of evolution and of geology." It was believed that New Zealand's wildlife had evolved in isolation independently from the rest of the world, hence its uniqueness. But if this were so, then these giants must have evolved parallel with the same giants INDEPENDENTLY in more than one place. This stretched credulity to the limit. Well, perhaps we should begin to review our scientific theories! In North and South America fossil crocodiles have been found in the rocks up to 18 meters (54 feet) long. Present-day Australian crocs are small by comparison and grow only to 6 meters (20 feet) long, and that is awesome enough. The coalfields around Manchester and Newcastle (UK) as well as those in Pennsylvania and Alabama (USA), contain giant fossil horse tail rush plants as tall as a five storey building. Today horse tails plague British and USA gardens at only 45 cm (18 inches) tall. The common Tasselfern found in Australia and other countries grows only a few feet tall, but in the rocks its fossil ancestors are over 30 meters (100 feet) tall. Alongside such giant preserved plants are fossil cockroaches, forty times bigger than the ones we see today. On a Nova Scotia field trip led by Australian John Mackay, a giant fossil slater or wood louse was photographed. This monster has been found on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean amongst fossil trees in the coal fields of Nova Scotia and Western Scotland. The fossil was so well preserved that its stomach contents were intact. There is no difficulty in identifying it as a giant member of the wood lice or roly poly family which is still here with us. They used to be nearly 2 meters (6 feet) long. Today they are only about ½ inch (1 centimeter) long. A huge fossil ammonite was discovered on the west coast of New Zealand. It is nearly 2 meters (6 feet) across. This giant shellfish's only known present day cousin is the Nautilus shell, which measures from 5 to 25 centimeters (2 to 10 inches). Says
English scientist Alfred Russell Wallace: "It is quite clear, therefore,
that we live in a zoologically impoverished world, from which all the
hugest and fiercest and strangest forms have disappeared." (The
Geographical Distribution of Animals, pp. 150,151)
Even Charles Darwin was astonished to discover that "now we
find mere pigmies compared with the antecedent allied races." (Sir
Henry Howarth, The Mammoth and the Flood, p. 351)
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For example, the present day Kotoko people of Chad, Africa, claim that their ancestors were giants. "In those days men were so tall they could look over the trees," they say. "Men twice as tall as us" once inhabited the "realm of delight", claim stories of old China, but they lost it by not living "by laws of virtue". God was angry with the giants, say the Montagnais Indians of Canada, and sent a flood upon them. It is a fact that the whole world seems to enshrine ancestral memories of giants. One could cite scores of such legends, from everywhere. Here are some of them: EUROPE: 1.
NORDIC MYTHS: 2.
SCANDINAVIA: 3.
GERMANIC MYTHS: 4.
GOTHS: 5.
CELTIC LEGENDS: 6.
IRELAND: 7.
BRITISH LEGENDS: 8.
CLAUDIUS AELIANUS (2nd
century): 9.
GREEK LEGENDS: 10.
GREEK LEGENDS: 11.
SICILY: 12.
SICILY: 13.
SICILY: AFRICA:
14.
CHAD: "The enormous piles of large stone blocks near Goulfei were transported there by the Sao, men so tall that they could look over the trees." (same tribe) ASIA: 15.
CHALDEA: 16.
BABYLONIANS: 17.
BABYLON: 18.
BOOK OF ENOCH: 19.
APOCRYPHA OF BARVCH: 20.
INDIAN RECORDS: 21.
CHINA: 22.
TIBET: 23.
TIBET: 24.
THAI TRADITION: AUSTRALASIA-PACIFIC: 25.
ABORIGINES, AUSTRALIA: 26.
ABORIGINES, AUSTRALIA: 27.
MAORIS, NEW ZEALAND: 28.
PAPUA NEW GUINEA: NORTH AMERICA: 29.
ESKIMOS: 30.
MONTAGNAIS INDIANS, CANADA: 31.
USA: 32.
SUPAI CANYON, ARIZONA: CENTRAL AMERICA: 33.
AZTECS, MEXICO: 34.
AZTECS, MEXICO: 35.
TOLTECS, MEXICO: 36.
CHOLULA INDIANS, MEXICO: 37.
MAYA, GUATEMALA; INCAS, PERU: SOUTH AMERICA: 38.
PERUVIAN TRADITION: 39.
QUICHUA INDIANS, PERU: 40.
TWO INCA LEGENDS, PERU: As you see, the whole world appears to enshrine ancestral memories of giants. 41. A manuscript called The Apocalypse of Baruch, a pseudepigraphical work written around AD 100 and preserved only in the sixth-century Syriac Vulgate (and which seems a little unclear in parts) appears to hint at the origin of giants: "Men began as giants. These first giants were very highly developed, intellectually, artistically and physically: they had power over birds and animals they misbehaved and were abolished by God, and ordinary men took their place " So many of the legends recall that mankind also lived far longer - even hundreds of years. Interestingly,
this is exactly what the ancient Biblical writings have been saying
for so long. From a high, blissful condition, man fell and steadily
deteriorated. He was created with a noble physique and a powerful brain,
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Also, tribes of giants were around Palestine in Abraham's time, 2000 BC (Genesis 14:15). Remnants of them existed as late as the times of Moses (1400 BC) and David (1000 BC). See Numbers 13:33; Deuteronomy 2:10,11,20,21; Joshua 12:4; 15:8; 17:15; 18:16; II Samuel 21:16-22; I Chronicles 20:4-8. The iron bedstead of Og the Ammonite (ruler of a nation of giants) kept on display, was 15.4 feet (4.7 meters) long (Deuteronomy 3:11,13). Goliath (1000 BC), a member of a family of giants, was over 10 feet tall (1 Samuel 17:4). He wore a breastplate of mail weighing 5,000 shekels (126 pounds or 57 kilograms) as well as a trophied spear, which the commentator compared to the size of a heavy "weaver's beam". The spearhead, when weighed by itself, tipped the scales at 600 shekels (approximately 15 lbs or 7 kg) (1 Samuel 17:7). Beniah, a hero of David's army, slew an Egyptian giant who was 8½ feet (2.5 meters) tall (1 Chronicles 11:23). These passages have every characteristic of historical authenticity. |
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A similar assessment of ancient man was reported in Time magazine: "Taking a fresh look at the fossils Weidenreich [of Manhatten's American Museum of Natural History] now believes that 'gigantism and massiveness may have been a general or at least a widespread character of early mankind.' " (Time, July 3, 1944) There are two divergent views concerning giant men. 1. The evolutionary approach is that from a savage and primitive start, isolated animals developed into cavemen, who, by trial and error, will eventually become supermen. Giants never existed, because there have been no fossil finds from which we can infer the existence of such a race. 2. A totally opposite claim comes from those who accept the Bible as factually true. They claim that from a higher, blissful condition, man has fallen and has deteriorated. They insist that man was created with a noble physique and a powerful brain, which have degenerated through wrong living. Originally, "there were giants." They overran the earth with "mighty" wonders. A cosmic disaster (known as the Deluge, or the Great Flood) intervened. It wiped out that original world, and drastically altered the topography, fertility and climate of the planet. In the impoverished environment which followed the Deluge, degeneration was accelerated. However, for some time there persisted a significant, though decreasing proportion of mankind who retained enormous stature. Their intellect and physique remains legendary. In the 1879 autobiography of Bill Cody of Buffalo Bill fame, Cody and his friends were five miles above Ogallala on the South Platte when a Pawnee Indian came to their camp with the bones of a giant. The surgeon in their group confirmed one of the bones to be a human thigh bone. Then the Indian related to them a curious legend. According to Buffalo Bill's own account, "The Indians claimed that the bones they had found were those of a person belonging to a race of people who a long time ago lived in this country. That there was once a race of men on the earth whose size was about three times that of an ordinary man, and they were so swift and powerful that they could run along-side of a buffalo, and taking the animal in one arm could tear off a leg and eat the meat as they walked. "These giants denied the existence of a Great Spirit so he caused a great rain-storm to come, and the water kept rising higher and higher so that it drove those proud and conceited giants from the low grounds to the hills, and thence to the mountains, but at last even the mountain tops were submerged, and then those mammoth men were all drowned. After the flood had subsided, the Great Spirit came to the conclusion that he had made man too large and powerful, and that he would therefore correct the mistake by creating a race of men of smaller size and less strength. This is the reason, say the Indians, that modern men are small and not like the giants of old, and they claim that this story is a matter of Indian history, which has been handed down among them from time immemorial." (William Cody, Buffalo Bill: Autobiography) This Indian legend agrees with the biblical explanation concerning long-lived giants. There is no physical barrier for giant humans to have existed in the past. There have been giant plants, giant insects, giant reptiles, mammals, birds and fish. Why not also giant humans? The fact of giants need not be surprising. The race was much purer and therefore physically healthier than now.
It may be asked: Would not a gigantic body function less efficiently, on the basis of gravity? Such an argument must be dismissed as speculative. The fundamental characteristics of gravity still elude analysis by modern physics. A number of scientists believe that electromagnetic energy supersedes the orthodox law of gravity, and can neutralize gravity. Such forces may well have operated on living organisms, including men, to an even more significant degree before the Flood. From facts to hand, one is led to ask: Could it be that conditions governing biological equilibrium (air pressure, gravity, etc.) were different from what they later became? There is abundant evidence that the world was in much better condition in the beginning. The climate and environment both on the land and in the sea enabled creatures to live long ages and reach huge sizes. Evidently, when the book of Genesis tells us, "there were giants in the earth in those days" (Genesis 6:4), it is recording not myth, but fact. Today, abnormally oversized humans are nearly always recognisable as such, because their height is often gained at the expense of their build (as in giantism). Apparently, ancient giants possessed a build in balanced proportion to their height. |
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ECUADOR 3.
EL ENLADRILLADO, CHILE: 4.
NORTH OF PUERTO RICO: 5.
ANCIENT BASHAN, SYRIA: 6.
TIAHUANACO, BOLIVIA: The ruins of Tiahuanaco comprise what was once a whole city built on the scale of people whose average height was gigantic, between 10 and 12 feet. Enormous buildings and monoliths are found almost all over the world - impossible to explain unless by the fact that these men were giants or had techniques unknown to us. 7. In the western Pacific Ocean some 1000 miles (1600 kilometres) northeast of Papua New Guinea lie the islands of the Federated States of Micronesia. One of the islands of this group (formerly the Caroline Islands) is Pohnpei Island. On the southeast corner of this small volcanic island lies an immense, ancient megalithic stone city, 28 kilometers in size, called Nan Modal. This is all the more remarkable when we consider that today many of the island's inhabitants live in grass huts. Nobody knows who the builders of this ancient city were - but the bones of humans who were MUCH LARGER than the Micronesians who live there now, have been excavated at Nan Modal. A leg bone (femur) was found by the Japanese back in the 1930s that was three times as large as a normal man's! (David Hatcher Childress, Lost Cities of Ancient Lemuria and the Pacific, p.222) Nan Modal is built out onto a coral reef and is intersected by artificial canals. It has been labelled "Venice of the Pacific". There are 90 to 100 artificial islands in the central 2.5 square kilometres of Nan Modal. Each of these islands is made up of giant basalt logs weighing about 20 tons each. Some of the stones in the buildings weigh up to 50 tons apiece. Walls reach 30 feet (10 meters) high. You can motor through the city by launch at high tide. The canals are 30 feet (9 meters) wide and at high tide 1.5 meters deep (although filled with silt). The occasional cry of a bird can be heard in the swamp. Fruit bats fly overhead. The ruins are eerie - deserted and silent. To think that this was once a bustling, thriving city of canals! Most natives keep away. They think ghosts haunt the islands and canals. 8.
Gigantic worked stones, including enormous stones set into buildings:
eg - the building
at the Temple of Jupiter, Baalbek, Lebanon Stones set in place by preceding, unknown races are so much larger and more difficult to transport than those put in place by subsequent cultures. We noted the biblical record of a giant by the name of Og, king of Bashan. "For Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the giants; his bedstead was nine cubits the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it Bashan, which was called the land of giants" (Deut. 3:10-13). So says Moses, writing 3,500 years ago. The ancient territory of Bashan now lies in southern Syria; it is dangerous Bedouin country. The Bible says that the conquest of Bashan by the Israelites began with Moses and was completed by Jair. In Argob, one of its little provinces, Jair took no less than sixty great cities, "fenced with high walls, gates and bars; besides unwalled towns a great many" (Deut. 3:4,5,14). Such a statement seems all but incredible. How could a province measuring not more than 30 by 20 miles (50 by 32 kilometers) support such a number of fortified cities, especially when the greater part of it was a wilderness of rock? But, mysterious and incredible as this seems, the cities built and occupied 4,000 years ago by these giants exist even yet. Nineteenth century explorer, Josiah Porter, traversed their empty streets; he opened doors of their houses; he slept peacefully in their long-deserted halls. From a tower in one of them, Salcah, Porter counted some 30 towns and villages dotting the surface of the plain. He reports: "On the spot, with my own eyes, I have seen that it is literally true. The cities are there to this day. Some of them retain the ancient names recorded in the Bible." (Porter, The Giant Cities of Bashan) These ancient cities contain probably the very oldest complete specimens of domestic architecture now existing in the world. Various Bible writers describe Bashan as almost an earthly paradise - the strength and grandeur of its oaks, the beauty of its mountain scenery, the unrivalled luxuriance of its pastures, the fertility of its wide-spreading plains and the excellence of its cattle. Remnants of the oak forests still clothe the mountainsides. Ancient Bashan comprises a vast field of basalt, elevated some 30 feet above the plain. It is called the "Lejah". Here stood the giant cities. Surrounding it was the fertile plain of Bashan. Worldwide, most ancient cities have vanished. Not so Bashan. It is literally crowded with towns and large villages - most of them, until recently, deserted. Yet they are not ruined! Many of the houses in these cities are perfect, as if only finished yesterday. The walls are sound, the roofs unbroken, the doors, and even the window-shutters in place. The walls of the cities are 15 feet thick and 30 feet high. Porter found the huge gates still in place. Some of the buildings in the city of Bozrah would grace the proudest modern Western city. These ancient streets are paved - still perfect, not a stone out of place. Even the
walls of houses are up to eight feet thick, built of large squared blocks
of basalt, without cement. The roofs are made of basalt slabs, cut like
planks and reaching from wall to wall. Heavy slabs form the ceilings.
The very doors and Rooms inside private houses measure up to 20 feet high. Here are huge rooms and apartments in perfect preservation. One by one, Porter entered some of these old houses, went up stairs and visited the rooms. Moss grows over the ruins. Groups of tapering columns spring up from the dense foliage of the oaks. Luxuriant creepers twist around the pillars. Brambles grow in festoons over the doorways. Branches of trees shoot through gaping cracks in some old walls. Owls flap their wings and foxes and jackals scamper along the streets. When Porter explored this area, he was stunned. So perfect was every street, every house, every room - so perfect, yet not a sound. Huge houses built among wild rocks, hundreds of houses per city, still perfect, but not a man to dwell in them. Remains of fountains and statues. The rocks are black, the soil is black, the buildings are all black - but not gloomy. The grass is green, the oak foliage, glittering in the sun, is brilliant. The private houses bear the marks of the most remote antiquity. They leave us to conclude that the cities were built by giants - a race of giants that has been extinct for more than 3,000 years. Porter noted that the highways of Bashan were still in place, completely covered here and there, with the branches of oak trees and straggling brambles. It makes you wonder, doesn't it? Here we have the biblical record, more than 3,000 years old, containing incidental descriptions, statements and statistics, which few men would be inclined to receive on trust, which some would throw aside as "glaring absurdities" and "gross exaggerations", and yet which close and thorough examination proves to be accurate in the most minute detail. But if you really want to see something staggering, read the biblical prophecies concerning particular cities of Bashan, most unlikely of fulfilment when they were made. (I regret the lack of space here.) The whole of Bashan (and adjacent Moab) is one great fulfilled prophecy. In November 2000, an Australian member of my archaeological Discovery crew, Denis Heath, went into southern Syria. He reports: "Jonathan had suggested that I explore south-east Syria for evidence of the 60 'cities of the Giants of Bashan', which were conquered by Moses, as described in Deuteronomy 3:3-5. I did this by taxi one day. "There is plenty of evidence of ancient black basalt 'cities', mostly within modern townships, which are integrated with the ruins. Some of the evidence is very good, including the high-arched doorway into a large house in Al Harisah, which has cleverly designed, high-arched stone ceilings. It supports a new house which has just been plonked on top, with livestock and accumulating debris occupying the rooms below. "These 'cities' are really walled towns normally only about a hectare (2½ acres) in area. They appear to be scattered around the ancient fortress just outside El Khodor, which is built on a high volcanic plug. This fortress has been built and rebuilt several times since, but there is plenty of evidence of really ancient foundations and structures dating well before the Roman ruins, which are very obvious. I imagine that King Og (referred to in Numbers 21) ruled from this fortress. "Unfortunately, it is now a communications centre for the Syrian armed forces and my taxi driver and I were hauled before some senior army people after I photographed it and started to climb it. "Then two varieties of secret police arrived to interrogate us (there are eight varieties in Syria). However, after receiving my side-screen video of old ruins and pretty Druse girls, they saw the humour of the situation. Then I was feted with cups of 'chi' (black tea) and a formal apology, 'on behalf of the President of Syria,' who is 'pleased to have tourists, and welcomes you with open arms.' "I have no doubt that the occupants of the Bashan cities were very large people because all the doorways were wide and high. However, I could not tell how high the rooms were because there was always a few feet of debris on the floors and entrances, I would guess twelve feet high, on average." (By the way, King Og's bedstead would be 15.45 feet or 4.7 meters long.) |
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Recently, in Turkey, my wife Josephine discovered part of an ancient spearhead, the size of which was consistent with an owner perhaps twice our stature. In Moravia, tools more than 10 feet (3 meters) long were found. These weighed 300 to 400 pounds (up to 200 kilograms). These were not symbolic objects, but tools that had been used. Near Bathurst, NSW, Australia, numerous huge stone clubs, pounders, adzes, chisels, knives and hand axes have been uncovered in old river gravels. These weigh from 8 to 25 pounds - which again could only have been wielded by men of tremendous proportions. Estimates for the actual size of these men range from 10 to 12 feet tall and over, and weighing from 500 to 600 pounds. In Agadir, Morocco, the French captain La Fanechere discovered a complete arsenal of hunting weapons, including 500 double-edged axes weighing 17½ pounds. It has been calculated that to handle such an axe, one would need hands of a size proportionate to a giant with a height of at least 13 feet. In an ancient copper mine near the Ontonagon River, Michigan, U.S.A., was found a stone hammer weighing 36 pounds. Many more such finds could be cited. |
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Here are just some of the finds reported over recent years concerning large human remains: NORTH AMERICA 1.
ALEUTIAN ISLANDS: The crania measured from 22 to 24 inches from base to crown. Since an adult skull normally measures about 8 inches from back to front, such large crania would imply an immense size for a normally proportioned human. Furthermore, every skull was said to have been neatly trepanned (a process of cutting a hole in the upper portion of the skull). In fact, the habit of flattening the skull of an infant and forcing it to grow in an elongated shape was a practice used by ancient Peruvians, Maya, and the Flathead Indians of Montana, North America. Sanderson tried to gather further proof, eventually receiving a letter from another member of the unit who confirmed the report. The letters both indicated that the Smithsonian Institution had collected the remains, yet nothing else was heard. Sanderson asks: " is it that these people cannot face rewriting all the text books?" (David Hatcher Childress, World Explorers Club) 2.
MINNESOTA, USA: 3.
OREGON, USA: 4.
TENNESSEE RIVER, USA: Here are samples of other finds: U.S.A: 5.
NORTH CAROLINA: 6.
WALKERTON, INDIANA: 7.
LAKE DELAVAN, WISCONSIN: 8.
WESTERN MISSOURI: 9.
ELLISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA: 10.
TIOGA POINT, PENNSYLVANIA: Through the bungling of diggers and the complete disinterest of the scientific establishment, many such finds have now been scattered and lost. I also wonder if some of them have ended up in secret vaults of the Smithsonian Institution. 11.
FLORIDA: 12.
CRITTENDON, ARIZONA: 13.
WINSLOW, ARIZONA: 14.
SPRING VALLEY, NEVADA: 15.
CARSON CITY, NEVADA: 16.
LOVELOCK, NEVADA: 17.
WHITE SANDS, NEW MEXICO: 18.
PALUXY RIVER, TEXAS: 19.
CHALK MOUNTAIN, TEXAS: 20.
COLORADO DESERT: 21.
BEAR CREEK, MONTANA: 22.
COOS BAY, OREGON: 23.
PARKERSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA: 24.
NORTH ALASKA: 25.
MINNESOTA: 26.
DRESBACH, MINNESOTA: 27.
LA CRESCENT, MINNESOTA: 28.
CLEARWATER, MINNESOTA: 29.
PINE CITY, MINNESOTA: 30.
CHATFIELD, MINNESOTA: 31.
WARREN, MINNESOTA: 32.
LOMPOCK RANCHO, CALIFORNIA: 33.
SANTA ROSA ISLAND, CALIFORNIA: 34.
DEATH VALLEY, CALIFORNIA: 35.
BRIDLEVALE FALLS, CALIFORNIA: 36.
CASCADE MOUNTAINS: We may well wonder what becomes of these remains after they are found. Perhaps the following two incidents are typical. 37.
SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA: 38.
SANTA CRUZ ISLAND, CALIFORNIA: 39.
CALIFORNIA: Evolutionary anthropologists generally hate giants, because they upset their pet theories. However, the evidence points to physical degeneration, and not evolutionary improvement, as the story of life on Earth. Giants prove that the Bible account of history is the true one. And that's not a popular concept with men whose hearts are at enmity against the idea of God. The Bible theme is that we are a fallen race and lost, with no future - unless we accept our need of God and salvation through His Son. CENTRAL AMERICA: 40.
SAYOPA, SONORA, MEXICO: 41.
MEXICO: 42.
TEPIC, MEXICO: 43.
MEXICO CITY: 44.
EL BOQUIN, NICARAGUA: SOUTH AMERICA: 45.
SOUTH AMERICA: 46.
SAN JULIAN: 47.
SOUTH AMERICAN COAST: 48.
MANTA, ECUADOR: 49.
MANTA, ECUADOR: 50.
CUZCO, PERU: 51.
TIAHUANACO, BOLIVIA: 52.
PATAGONIA, ARGENTINA: 53.
PATAGONIA: ASIA: 54.
JAVA, INDONESIA: 55.
GARGAYAN, PHILIPPINES: 56.
SOUTH-EAST CHINA: 57.
HONG KONG and CHINA: The giant teeth found in China by the German-Dutch palaeontologist G.H.R. von Koenigswald around 1935 in a Chinese herbal shop, were dubbed "dragon's teeth". Various authorities who studied them noticed that they bore a striking resemblance to human teeth, but they were twice as big. The owner of the teeth, they calculated, would have had to have been around 11.8 feet (3.6 meters) tall - and would have weighed in at 694 pounds (315 kilograms). As a result, some paleontologists were led to speculate that modern humans might have descended from "giant" ancestors. Modern science, however, was adamant that the teeth were from "giant extinct apes". John Mount, writing in Nexus magazine (August-September, 2001) comments: "Isn't it laughable that, ever since Darwin's time, science has been trying to make a man out of a monkey? Now, faced with the possibility of giant humans, they are trying to make monkeys out of men!" 58.
LHASA, TIBET: 59.
CEYLON: 60.
TURA, ASSAM, INDIA: 61.
SIMLA, HINDOSTAN: 62.
NORTHERN ISRAEL: 63.
TURKEY: 64.
TURKEY: 65.
TURKEY: 66.
TURKEY: At two sites the leg bones were measured to be about 120 centimeters (47.24 inches). Joe Taylor, Director of the Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum, in Crosbyton, Texas, was commissioned to sculpt an anatomically correct, and to scale, human femur of one of these ancient men. This giant stood some 14-16 feet tall, and had 20-22 inch long feet. His or her finger tips, with arms to their sides, would be about 6 feet above the ground. AFRICA: 67.
NORTH OF N.GUIGMI, AFRICA: 68.
A NECROPOLIS in the SAHARA: 69.
LAKE ELYASI, CENTRAL AFRICA: 70.
TAUNGS, CAPE PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA: EUROPE: 71.
CAUSASUS MOUNTAINS, U.S.S.R. 72.
NORWAY: 73.
FRANCE: 74.
SPAIN: 75.
VALENCIA, SPAIN: 76.
ITALY: 77.
SCOTLAND: 78.
ENGLAND: We actually have a photograph of this one. It was propped up for viewing against a 19th century railway carriage. It totally dwarfed the back of the railway carriage. An extract and photograph from the British Strand magazine of December 1895, reprinted in W.G. Wood-Martin's book Traces of the Elder Faiths of Ireland, mentions this fossilised giant that had been found during mining operations in County Antrim, Ireland: "Pre-eminent
among the most extraordinary articles ever held by a railway company
is the fossilised Irish giant, which is at this moment lying at the
London and North-Western Railway "This monstrous figure is reputed to have been dug up by a Mr Dyer whilst prospecting for iron ore in County Antrim. The principal measurements are: entire length, 12 feet 2 inches; girth of chest, 6 feet 6 inches; and length of arms, 4 feet 6 inches. There are six toes on the right foot. The gross weight is 2 tons 15 cwt; so that it took half a dozen men and a powerful crane to place this article of lost property in position for the Strand magazine artist. "Dyer, after showing the giant in Dublin, came to England with his queer find and exhibited it in Liverpool and Manchester at sixpence a head, attracting scientific men as well as gaping sightseers. Business increased and the showman induced a man named Kershaw to purchase a share in the concern. In 1876, Dyer sent his giant from Manchester to London by rail; the sum of £4 2s 6d being charged for carriage by the company, but never paid. "Evidently Kershaw knew nothing of the removal of the 'show', for when he discovered it he followed in hot haste, and, through a firm of London solicitors, moved the Court of Chancery to issue an order restraining the company from parting with the giant, until the action between Dyer and himself to determine the ownership was disposed of. The action was never brought to an issue." Unfortunately we don't know what happened after this. It is unfortunate that such finds often disappear and we never hear of them again. Thankfully, a reporter took a photograph. AUSTRALIA: 79.
UPPER MACLEAY RIVER, NSW: 80.
COWRA, NSW: 81.
BATHURST, NSW: 82.
BATHURST, NSW: 83.
GYMPIE, QUEENSLAND: 84.
BLUE MOUNTAINS, NSW: 85.
PENRITH, NSW: 86.
KEMPSEY, NSW: 87.
BATHURST and DUBBO, NSW: 88.
GYMPIE, QUEENSLAND: NEW ZEALAND and PACIFIC: 89.
NORTH ISLAND, NZ: 90.
NORTH ISLAND, NZ: 91.
NAN MADOL, CAROLINE ISLANDS: 92.
KIRIBATI: 93.
NEW ZEALAND: 94.
NEW
ZEALAND: 95.
NEW
ZEALAND: 96.
FIJI: 96.
ROTUMA: 97.
ROTUMA: The other day I received a phone call from a man asking if I could track down a German scientific report of 25 foot human remains having been found in Germany. Frankly, we don't know for sure the size of the largest humans of the past. Remains suggesting 12 to 15 feet are fairly common, but clues suggesting 20 to 25 feet also crop up from time to time. In N.S.W., Australia, museum curator Rex Gilroy has discovered and photographed indisputably human footprints (now fossilized) which would indicate, in proportion, an individual who stood 25 feet tall! Does this seem far-fetched? I shall probably be straining credulity if I report: ·
A human thigh bone 8
feet 4 inches long
from Mexico. This is as far as I dare go. These are well attested and supposedly genuine (although hoaxes are possible in some instances.) Other larger remains have been reported through history, but one is inclined to ask, how big was it possible for a human to grow? We have to admit we cannot know. But when we see the size of some fossil animals, in comparison to the same species today, we may well wonder how much we have reduced in size compared with the greatest giants who ever trod this earth. Even today, we have a great difference in size between the tallest living people and pygmies. It may well be asked, if many animals have "devolved" to as much as a quarter of their previous height, might not man? It's an interesting question. |
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toes In Dead Men's Secrets (p. 303) I referred to a report by the chief of an Amazon tribe concerning some preserved human remains in an underground chamber in Brazil. The corpses had 6 fingers on each hand and 6 toes on each foot. Interestingly, in two Old Testament books is written the testimony of eyewitnesses to that very same peculiarity around 1000 BC in the ancient land of Canaan (modern day Israel): "And yet again there was war at Gath, where was a man of great stature, whose fingers and toes were four and twenty, six on each hand, and six on each foot: and he also was the son of the giant" (1 Chronicles 20:6; compare 2 Samuel 21:20). |
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