There Were Giants

The Scriptures say this. "There were giants in the earth in those days (many years ago)... the same became mighty men, which were of old, men of renown (or famous back then)." Is it (this story) a fact or fiction. I believe the Bible so I say let God be true, and every men will be found a liar; even those who contradict his word.

"God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged." Romans 3:4

However, there's a lot of logical people out there who deserve and still want proof of the existence of giants. I sure would if it were available. And it is. Therefore, I shall endeavor to give you the very proof that you need in order to believe.

The Historical Facts

Some have recorded seeing or hearing about the fossil remains of giant people. Whether they have or not is entirely up to you. But I will bring the evidence, archaeological records and the historical testimony of those who have claimed to known of or to have seen giant humans.

History is full of accounts of Nephilim; it seems historians have done their best to keep this fact hidden from the public. Most fighters and explorers that kept journals wrote of encounters with these monsters. The Romans wrote of 17 foot tall Celtic giants that the legions fought with. Others, such as Amerigo Vespucci, Sir Francis Drake, De Soto, Coronado, and Narvaez, all mention encounters with giants they had on their journeys. These are documented, eyewitness sightings. Pedro Castaneda, who accompanied Coronado, wrote about the Cocopa Indian tribe, that they were giants, and could carry logs that 6 Spaniards couldnt budge. As Stephen Quayle says, Archaeologists often discover these large bones in graves. But these are usually dismissed as being the bones of mastodonsa premise thats hard to justify given the fact that the creatures are often buried in human graves wearing battle armor along with a shield and massive sword(Genesis 6 Giants, pages 190-191).

Strange Places

There are also archaeological remnants that prove the existence of giants. One example is a place in Bolivia, 30 kilometers from Lake Titicaca. There are gigantic stone platforms all over the place; the largest was once 29 meters long and has been calculated to weigh 900 tons. This place is 4,100 meters high in the Andes Mountains. Nothing grows there. Its not possible to transport a 900 ton platform without any wooden rollers; even with them, it wouldve been complicated. The Pre-Incan Indians, the Aymara, couldnt have possibly moved it into place. Could these gigantic ruins have been built by gigantic people?

Another place is on the Mediterranean island of Malta; the people there have an ancient belief that their island was known as the last stronghold of the giants of Europe. This island has gigantic temples; one is in Gozo, and is still called Ticantilla, meaning the temple of giants. One of the local legends there says that the temple was built by a giantess Sunsuna. The blocks are so huge and heavy that no normal human could move them.

Another ancient megalithic site is in Ollantaytambo, Peru. There are gigantic fortress walls made of andesite rock. The walls have tightly fitted blocks that weigh from 150 to 250 tons each. The quarry is 7 miles away on a mountaintop. To make these walls, the builders would have to have dressed and carved the stones at an altitude of 10,000 feet, lowered them down the mountainside, crossed a river canyon with 1,000 foot sheer rock walls, and finally raised the blocks up another mountain and fitted them into place. Does this really make sense? No human beings could have built it. It might have been gigantic beings who built it.

Perhaps one of the best evidences of giants are the ruins of Baalbek, Lebanon. More recent Roman ruins are built on top of megalithic, ancient ruins of unknown origin. The largest stones in the world that were ever used for construction are there, and called the Trilithon. They are so big that we dont know their actual weight. The stones were quarried, moved 5 miles, lifted 25 or 30 feet in the air, and were fit together so closely that you cant fit a piece of paper between them. We dont have any idea how they did it. Theres no crane in the world that can lift anywhere near those weights. According to Arab tradition, the earliest temples there were built after the great flood by a race of giantsfor the biblical king Nimrod.

More astounding evidence for giants comes from ancient Egypt. Its said that during the Old Kingdom period, the first 3 pharaohs were conceived by a priest of Ra after having intercourse with the god Ra. Its this that made all the pharaohs believe that they themselves are direct descendants of gods; pharaoh means son of Ra. With further occurrences of giants after the flood, some of these offspring were called Rephaim, after one Rapha. Is it possible that this Rapha, who was from the area of Canaan, could be the same Ra who was the father of the first three pharaohs? These areas were only a couple hundred miles from each other, so travel and access was relatively easy. When Abraham and Sara passed through Canaan, the entire area was populated by the descendants of Raphaim, Anakim, and Nephilim. When David killed Goliath, remnants of these giants still lived in the land. There is evidence that the descendants of the Nephilim were in the general area of Canaan, which was close to, and actually a province of Egypt, at one time. It is logical to conclude that these beings were heavily involved in the affairs in Egypt. Rafah is a town about 20 miles south of what today is Gaza on the border between Israel and Egypt. This towns ancient name was Rapha. It is likely that the Rapha, after whom the town was named, was either a post-flood Nephilim, or one of their descendants. Not only this, but when one studies ancient Egypt, they find that its covered with images of giants. Strange skulls are found around the world, including Mexico and Peru. These skulls are larger than normal skulls and are elongated. They are supposedly from head binding, but the evidence suggests otherwise: that the skulls naturally grew that way, and were from giants.

More Giants

A giant from history was Aymon, who was a member of the Archduke Ferdinands bodyguard. He was said to stand 11 feet tall. For many years, a carved wooden likeness of him was in the Castle of Ambras in the Tyrol Alpines.

In 1705, at the foot of the Crussol mountain range in France, another giant skeleton was recovered: that of the giant Bucart, the famed tyrant of the Vivarais. . The skeleton was 22 feet tall.

In Roy Norvills book: Giants, he reports that the bones 22 feet tall were recovered from a grave near Valencia, Spain.

The naturalist John Riolan says that the tomb of Isoret could be seen near St. Germain at the close of the 16th century. The giant was 20 feet tall.

In 1509, an ancient tomb was uncovered by ditch diggers in Rouen, France. In the tomb was a skeleton over 17 feet tall in his armor. The following engraved identification was affixed to the tomb: In this tomb lies the noble and puissant lord, the Chevalier Ricon de Vallemont, and his bones.

The Journal Litteraire of the Abb Nazari reports the skeleton of a giant that was exhumed in Calabria, Italy. The skeleton was eighteen roman feet. The mans teeth weighed at least an ounce each.

John Cassanio, in his book De Gigantibus, told of Francis 1 of France (1494-1547), who saw a giant in Bordeaux that was so tall that he enlisted him as one of his guards. Apparently, this giant was so tall that normal sized men could walk between his legs.

Romans encountered giants at the little river Allia in 387 B.C. The Senone giants made the Roman army make a hasty retreat. When Rome heard this, practically the whole population fled the city. Shortly thereafter, the giants burned Rome to the ground.

Hector Boetius History of Scotland relates that the bones of a Scottish giant who was nicknamed Little John were 14 feet long, and could still be seen in his day.

A giant from the Middle Ages was Saint Christopher. According to his peers, he was a member of a tribe of dog-headed, cannibalistic giants. Jacques de Voragine writes about Saint Christopher in his book The Golden Legend: He was of gigantic stature, had a terrifying mien, was twelve coudes tall. According to this account, Saint Christopher was between 12 and 18 feet tall. This fact has become eliminated from church history. While the Western icons of him do not show him as a giant, the icons of the Eastern churches do. In historic accounts it is suggested that he was the offspring of a human being and an Anubis.

The Modern

A gentleman named Wagner was the Middle East Water Works Euphrates engineer from 1938-1968. He claimed to have visited three grave sites where bones of humans were found to be between ten (10) and twelve foot (12) in length. Alegedly he found two femur bones of a men who twelve feet tall. A third man was determined to be ten foot tall.

The Scientific America on page 106 August 14, 1880 reports that an excavation encountered bones of thirteen skeletons in Bush Creek Township, Ohio. Among them were the bones of a ten foot male (10 ft.), nine to nine foot four females (9-9.4 ft.) and children who least them were three foot six in height (3.6 ft.).

Scientific America of July 1877 reported that in Eureka, Nevada that three prospectors came upon the a leg bone in a hilly area. A four (4 ft.) femur with kneecap, joints, tibula/fibula and foot: thirty-nine (39 inches) from knee to heel. He was to be over twelve foot (12 ft.) tall then.

Evidence of giants has also been found in Australia. In 1970 Dr. Rex Gilroy, the director of the Mount York Natural History Museum at Mount Victoria, New South Wales, examined huge fossilized footprints. He began excavations in the area and has collected enough evidence to prove that there was a race of giants that lived on Australia. Gilroy also found stone implements, hand axes, clubs, and other tools that were so large that only giants that had extra large hands and strength could have made any beneficial use of them. The utensils often weighed from 8 to 25 lbs. Also found were giant molars, as well as other fossilized footprints that measured up to 30 inches in length. The implications are that men of 12 to 20 feet in height once roamed this continent (Norvill, Giants: The Vanished Race, page 11.)

The Ancients

Another historian who referenced giants was Josephus. He wrote in Antiquities, 5.2.3.: And when they had taken it, they slew all the inhabitants. There were till then left a 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 this very day, unlike to any credible relations of other men. He also wrote other things about giants, including that the King of Persia sent a Jew called Eleazar the Giant to Rome along with other hostages as part of a peace agreement. The giant stood 7 cubits tall, which would be over 10 feet tall.

A characteristic of giants is that they engaged in homosexual acts. According to Athenaeus, the giants were accustomed to sleeping with 2 boys. According to the historian Diodorus: Although their wives are comely, they have little to do with them, but rage with lust in outlandish fashion for the embraces of males (Diodorus, 5.32).

The Bible

Many giants in the Bible are from after the flood. It appears from various records that giants are also alive today. For example, in the Solomon Islands, there may be a race of giants living today.

Giants (allegedly) were cannibals; it appears that cannibalism started with giants, who spread it to others. Luke 17:26 says: And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. Daniel 2:43 says: they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave to one another, even as iron is not mixed with clay. Will the Nephilim (fallen ones) be involved in the coming of the antichrist?

Some say its not theologically important whether the sons of God were the angels or not. Maybe that's true. However, it was the reason the flood was sent. It was why Saul was told to kill all the inhabitants. And it may play a big role in the future tribulation.

The Command

The Israelites were instructed by God to destroy the giants that inhabited the Promised Land of Canaan. They were to utterly destroy the Nephilim (giants) of the land. They did so under the leadership of Joshua who was completed his mission for the most part, except in the land of the Philistines. That's where Goliath and his four brothers lived (The story can be found in 1 Samuel 17:3-50; 2 Samuel 21:19; 1 Chronicles 20:5). These people (of Gath, Gaza and Ashdod) were the thorns in the side of Israel for the next four hundred years. They were the constant enemies of Israel; mentioned about two-hudred and seventy (270) times. Interestingly enough, today the people of the same area of Palestine are still giving Israel thorns in the flesh and discomfort to this very hour.

"When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou; And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them: Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly. But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire. For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth." Deuteronomy 7:1-6

"There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, there remained." Joshua 11:22

The Names

And what are meanings of their names? The names of the tribes are related to their being giants, activities and tallness. Here's a short list of them:

(1) The Nephilim: The fallen ones. (2) Raphalim: The dead ones. Zombies? (3) Zuzim (a.k.a. Zamzummim) Roving creatures, contrivers of evil, and achievers (or builders of great things). (4) Emims: The terrors. (5) Horites: Cave dwellers, troglodytes. (6) Amorites: The sayers. The Jewish Historian Josephus speaks of their ability to make terrible sounds to frighten others. As they were also dreadful to look at also. A kind of one-two knock out punch effect. (7) Amalekites: People of lapping, licking or slobbering. (8) Anakim: The long neck ones.

Other References

Some other scriptural references to giants.

"For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man."

Og of Bashan was between 12-18 ft tall. Just to survive he would of needed to ingest at the very least 22,657 calories (as per the Basal Metabolic Rate which calculates a persons height and weight, just to stay alive) if he led an inactive lifestyle. But we know from the Scriptures that he was a warrior. He would of needed in modern terms to eat 150 cheeseburgers or 30 pizzas to stay alive. Imagine why the Hebrews Spies said that the land devourers itself. Meaning that the giants there simply ate all that they could and left very little over.

"And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs. The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence. And they returned from searching of the land after forty days. And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land. And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it. Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there. The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan. And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it. But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we. And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature. And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight." Numbers 13:23-33

In order to need two grown men - who were strong warriors - to carry a cluster of grapes between a pole, they most probably weighed between fifty (50) to three hundred (300) pounds. Those were some big grapes. The reason for the great size could of been a cleaner atmosphere, better soil along with a greater oxygen intake and purity.

The Grand Finale

One last thing. Though nobody knows why the giants were so big, perhaps they might of grown like reptiles do: throughout their entire life. I have always wondered why there were giants of such different sizes. The only way to explain it is that the giants would grow throughout their life. The older they are, the taller they are. Age determines size. Are you convinced yet? Hopefully you are, but if not I hope that you have been entertained. God bless you.