Giants in Antiquity

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Hahaha please! Taller people do not look like giants to shorter people unless perhaps you a dwarf. I am only five foot five and I wouldn't describe anyone as a giant unless they produced too much growth hormone that made then exceptionally large and tall then they would need to be really large for me to describe them as that. A giant implies a really physically big being of some kind. And why would we make fun of whomever described them as giants since we were not there and didn't see what they saw. Ever occur to anyone they might, just might, have good reason to call them giants? Question is, why? What was it about these people that stood out so much?

The obvious is they were large physically but why were they?

To Janissey: thats true that weve all been told this myth that "they thought Columbus was crazy but he was right".

His superstitious unlettered crewmen may have worried about falling off the edge of the earth, but the educated elite of Europe (like King Ferdinand, and Queen Isabella) knew the world was a sphere (atleast since Erasthones) so the question was size, and not shape.

Columbus insisted that Eurasia was longer than it really is, and that the whole planet is smaller than it really is. And concluded that the country of Japan was only 600 miles west of the Azores ( just a puddle jump away). In reality the Atlantic (3000 miles), the American continents (3000 miles wide), and the Pacific (another 6000 miles) lay between the Azores and east Asia. So he was actually wrong. Everyone else was right. BUT Columbus's error caused him to stumble upon the American continents. So Columbus does deserve credit: for being the first person in history to get a research grant ( ie to get the powers-at-be to gamble money to test a theory). Even though he was wrong-putting the theory to the test payed off.

To Anna: I think that youve gotten things backward. Even if people did "used to believe the world was flat"- you're forgetting that people ALSO used to believe in giants . The same trend away from flat earth believing also caused folks to stop believing in giants.

Science was open to human giants centuries before it became open to the idea of dinosaurs or trilobites. No holy book mentions trilobites. So early rockhounds had no reason to look for them. But giants were a common meme in folklore -so if evidence for giant humans were unearthed it would have been accepted as such. The total absence of evidence of human giants, and the omnipresence of trilobites in the rock strata convinced scientists long before Darwin that there were never any human giants, and that trilobites must have once lived.

Now wait a second...people did not "believe" in giants. We are not talking about witches, warlocks or fairies that have nothing to back them up. We actually have the remnants of a mammoth sized ancient city to suggest it was built by something really incredibly large. These stones are much larger than the vast majority used to construct cities, even in ancient times. They had no cranes. We wouldn't even attempt to move stones this size with cranes today. They are just too large.

Nimod was described as an actual giant and he built that enormous city Baalbek. It's still there!

They are much bigger stones at Baalbek than those other locations and sources just happen to say King Nimrod was a "giant" and not only do they describe Nimrod like that and there's this city, they also described specific regional wars with people they say are giants. It's not like a group of people believing in giants the way children believe in Santa Claus.

These same sources didn't describe all the ones who built cities as giants. Why these particular ones? Most are located near or in the Dead Sea and are thought of as worshiping various idols and that they were generally brutish people who didn't really care about much. They are said to be sons of Canaan, descendants of him, and had six toes on each foot, various genetic anomalies such as these...so what does it mean?

^Like fishermen stories,the two inch minnow turns into a ferocious gar as long as a man's leg.