Giants in the Earth - Are the Bible and Other Ancient Sources to Be Believed?

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Giants in the Earth

Are the Bible and Other Ancient Sources to Be Believed?

BY MARK AMARU PINKHAM

Were there really giants roaming the earth in ancient times as the famous Biblical passage informs us? If we are to believe the books of the Bible that follow Genesis, tribes of giants were still inhabiting much of the Middle East even when the Israelites arrived in the “Promised Land.” In the Old Testament we are informed of the numerous ensuing battles between the Israelites and certain giant tribes known as the Anakim, Zuzim, Zamzummin, Emim, Avvim, Hor­ites and Rephaim. The most famous giant was, of course, Goliath, but at only 11 feet tall, he was dwarfed by other neighboring giants, including the 16-foot tall King Og of Bashan. Such exotic imagery of towering giants certainly makes for gripping Biblical reading: however, if the Jewish text is to be accepted as more than simple fantasy, it needs to be corroborated by references to bands of ancient giants in the histories of other cultures around the globe. Appar­ently it is. Many cultures, including the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Hindus, some Native American tribes explicitly mention both giant ancestors and even entire giant races in their records. The Codices of the Aztecs, for ex­ample, divide time into five cycles or “Suns” and claim that many thousands of years ago during the Second Sun a race of giants covered the earth. One Aztec codex currently on view in the Vatican Library states: