Take a close look at this carving. Besides the fact that the figure is huge, he is holding something that I found interesting. Here is a close up of another carving from the same collection:
He is holding a full grown lion in his arm as if it were a small pet. I started looking for other examples of giant sized people with normal sized animals. I have only recently checked museums for this type of evidence. This is what I found so far:
This figure is standing on a bull.
Diana the Huntress. I checked the size of Greek Deer. Here is a website that showed a museum photo of a full grown Grecian stag.
First notice the difference in height between the “gods” and the bearded humans. A closeup shows a full grown bull behind the humans.
You will have to look hard in this Egyptian example. The giant is on the right. A full grown sheep is on the left, lower tier of figures.
I have many more I could post and perhaps will if there seems to be an interest in this topic. My point is that there seems to be evidence in ancient artwork regarding the prior existence of larger races of people. According to myth and ancient histories, these larger races died out. I found architectural evidence supporting this theory in Central America, South America, and Egypt. The architectural evidence includes examples of over sized stairways, door lintels, and over sized window openings with unusually high sills. The scholarly argument that the artwork shows giants to indicate the importance of rulers over common people and the argument that over sized architecture emphasizes the importance of the ruler over the common people do not seem to wash. I say this because when I compare giant artwork and giant architecture of the Americas and Europe/Asia, the proportions of the figures are practically identical.
Second Sight has giants. Lots of them. I put them in the story because I have seen a lot of carvings and architecture that are giant sized. Is it possible they actually existed? If they did, what happened to them? This is another theme I introduce in Second Sight . Anyone who has studied ancient stories about giants will quickly spot that I am not calling them by all their correct names. Please don’t sue me. I wanted to change some of the names to make the names in Second Sight feel older. When I first wrote these novels, especially the first novel in the series working title First Earth, I had very strange names for the giants. But I was confusing my test readers and decided I should at least make the names of the giants sound like the ones you hear floating around on the Internet and the Discovery Channel.
In my novels you will meet five different races of beings. They are all human shaped but come in a variety of fun sizes. They are in decending order: Giants, Half giants, Humans, Trahls, and Dwarves.
The giants I call Nephillim. That is spelled with an extra “l” in the name.
The half giants that you meet are named according to their race. You will see Ephraim mentioned a lot and occasionally Anakim. I can’t talk about the other races without spoiling the story for you.
If you would like to research this topic, your best bet is to go to the museums as I have and take a tape measure with you. Bring a water bottle that you can stand up next to a statue to give scale to your photographs, or wait for someone to take a picture of someone else posing beside your giant statue. I will try to post some more examples of Mayan giants and half giants.
A good book to get on the subject of Mayan culture is Linda Schele’s “A Forest of Kings“. My edition is the older green cover that you see when you click on the blue title. I see a new edition has come out perhaps because of the interest in 2012. My page references may not match up with the new edition. There are examples of Giants in artwork (page 244 for example). There is also the full explanation of why the Mayan believe the world is NOT going to end in 2012. It might get bumped a little, but it isn’t going to end according to what the Mayan’s inscribed. You will find that information on page 82.
Thank you for reading. The book launches in a few days. I really appreciate all the good wishes and prayers from so many of you. I hope you enjoy the story. I am looking forward to finishing the editing of the sequel.
JFAlthouse
Thanks for sharing your research and basis for your novels – I came to the same conclusion, but only from examining ancient documents. Blessings!
Author of The Ninth Generation: Conquering the Giants
The pictures are astonishing, Jack! I have been in a lot of museums but never saw anything like it, except for Diana – and I never noticed the deer as a clue to size. Your research is impressive.
By the way, had a MASSIVE computer crash, which took out everything, including the printer. I am getting a new printer, but have not been able to recover my e-mail address book. If you can send me an e-mail, it will give me your address.
My response here is far from complete or adequate in representing my reaction to your work, but I neither understand nor trust Facebook. It is a half giant miracle that I navigated my way to the pictures!
Thank you Donald. I was taught that the different sized figures were meant to represent the status of the king over the subjects. When I read the ancient history texts I learn that these were real live giants and half giants.
Nice to be in contact with you John. I look forward to our future correspondence.
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 13:32-33 KJV
in Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites called them Emims.Deuteronomy 2:10-12 (The Moabites are the sons of Lot)
(That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;
Deuteronomy 2:19-21 (The Ammonites are also the son of Lot) And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the land of giants.
Deuteronomy 3:12-14 Do you know where these lands are located today and has anyone found the remains of a giant on any archelogical dig?
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 13:32-33 KJV
in Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites called them Emims.Deuteronomy 2:10-12 (The Moabites are the sons of Lot)
(That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;
Deuteronomy 2:19-21 (The Ammonites are also the son of Lot)
And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the land of giants.Deuteronomy 3:12-14
Do you know where these lands are located today and has anyone found the remains of a giant on any archelogical dig?
If you do some research into the coal mining regions of Pennsylvania particularly around the 1880’s, there are local newspaper accounts of giant skeletons being found along with artifacts such as swords. One story reported a giant body being laid out in a funeral parlor. I cannot verify the accuracy of these accounts. I plan to travel up to the Shenandoah Pennsylvania region and see if I have any luck finding newspaper archives in the local libraries.
Other than that the only story of a skeleton having been found is Java Man but there are some questionable circumstances regarding the find and the bones were lost during world war two when the japanese invaded china.
Thanks for the Bible references. I have the same ones marked in a Bible here.
Sequel comes out January 1st 2013
To Cyntajah,
OG, the last king of Bashan, was defeated and killed by Moses’ army. The Giant cities of Bashan are located on the edge of Mount Henron, in the upper Golan Heights. The cities of Bashan were rediscovered almost intact by the Englishman, J.L. Porter about 1880. His book, ‘The Lost Cities of Bashan, and Syria’s Holy Places’ was subsequently published in 1882. His narrative tells of cities that are extant, not destroyed, with doorways and rooms 12′ to 15′ tall. It is a small book well worth reading.
It is instructive to note that Bashan, (literally ‘The Land of the Giants) is less than 30 miles from the Becca Valley in Lebanon, the location of Baalbek. Also, Mounr Henron is the location where the Nephilim were originally ‘created’, and was the Holiest of Hoies before that designation and center was moved to Jerusalem following David’s ascension to the throne.
I am currently writing a book with the material as a central tenant., so I won’t elaborate on what is truly one of the great ‘hidden mysteries in plain sight’ in the world. The book should be available early next spring.
John
Well done John. Let me know when you are published. I would like to link it to my sites. Thanks for the heads up on Porter’s book. Is it available or do I have to hunt it down in London? All the best. Jack
I had not noticed that these statues were large compared to animals. What I had noticed was that that many of these also had strapped dials on their wrists, the same as some of us wear wrist watches. What I noticed was that the states which had wings, indicating they might be able to fly, or leave the ground in some way, had some kind of something on their wrists. These things strapped to their wrists were not all the same and had dials that differed from statue to statue. Like some of the others above, I have written books on the subject, and are on this website above. While my story also takes into consideration giants, and who they may have been, I had not thought they might have been Sumerian, or King Gildamesh of Uruk. Gilgamesh, as pictured on your photograph, is the only King I found who had the dials on the wrist but did not have wings. I have wondered the significance of this. He reigned for 126 years, and it is in current day Irag. (Uruk = Iraq)
Yours,
Nick
Thank you for that information Nick!
I’ve started to notice this few weeks ago while trying to connect our house cats’ origin in Sumer area and their traits similar to reptiles. Came to a conclusion that Anunnaki gave cats to humans as some warped good will present just as they had lions as pets. another example of innana with a lion: http://www.crystalinks.com/inannalion.gif and another example of size difference : https://aryanity.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/chapter-4-figure-3.jpg
Hello Dili, I saw that piece at a museum. I think it was the British Museum in London.
Have you noticed the pieces that have ancient kings and queens of gigantic size standing on deer and lions like they were small pets?