In the culture of various peoples, legends about creatures of unusual growth for an average person who possessed tremendous power have been preserved. In Greek myths they were called titans and Atlanteans, in Scandinavian mythology - giants, in the Bible - Nephilim. One thing unites these creatures: they all have a divine origin and all of them, one way or another, differ from ordinary people in their enormous growth.
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In circus performances of various times participated people with unprecedented growth, capable of lifting enormous weight. Modern giants are listed in the Guinness Book of Records and amaze people with their amazing parameters. Bao Sishun (2 m 36 cm), Sultan Kösen (2 m 51 cm) and Leonid Stadnik (2 m 57 cm) are considered modern giants, but their unusual growth is considered more likely to be pathology than normal. It was also in the Middle Ages and in the ancient world, however, myths say that there were much more giants on earth before.
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In folk tales, you can see extraordinary people - giants, giants, who hit the minds of their living witnesses: Svyatogor-Bogatyr, Big Tull, Tepegez, Adau and many others. “And the sons of God began to go in with the daughters of men. And the Nephilim / giants were born from these marriages - people are glorious and strong since ancient times, ” - this is how the Old Testament and the Apocryphal Book of Enoch speak of miracle people who once lived on Earth. The flood washed away them along with the rest of humanity, but they still continued to appear much later: one of such unusual people was Goliath, whom David defeated, who later became king.
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In ancient Greek epics, there are also several references to giants: the atlas, to which Hercules came and asked for the Hesperides apples (one of 12 feats), the titans who fought on the side of Zeus's father - Kronos, the sons of Poseidon - the Cyclops-giants Polyphemus and brothers, who met Odysseus. In Egyptian, Babylonian, Indian, Celtic and other mythologies, similar characters are also present. This can serve as indirect evidence that the giants existed, and people met them, albeit infrequently. It was these meetings that gave rise to myths and legends captured in oral traditions.
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Archaeologists find confirmation in ancient texts in different corners of the planet. For example, in southern Africa, a huge imprint of a human foot was found next to a foot print of a dinosaur. Similar traces were found in Polynesia, Tarava Island. These shots circled the whole world and were included in the film by the researcher Erich von Daniken's “Memoirs of the Future”. The height of the person who left such a mark exceeded three meters. Experts make different assumptions about the dating of the life of this giant. Someone speaks of millions of years, and someone gives an estimate of several tens of millennia. However, both of them agree that for "antediluvian" people high growth was the norm, and modern people are dwarfs in comparison with them.
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Ogres, titans, giants, cyclops, giants, gods, heroes - people called these creatures in different ways. It is believed that they all preceded the race of modern people and almost completely died out. Black archaeologists here and there find huge human skeletons, these can be individual burials or whole cemeteries. Academic science does not recognize such discoveries and declares all photos fake. However, no expertise has yet been carried out that could confirm or deny the authenticity of these wonderful finds.
