here be Giants a phrase often marked on ancient maps that would usually denote a
strange intangible fear a time where civilization would be all struck but a
vast expanse of our planet and all the strange inexplicable mysteries that
populate in folklore the concept of the giant is as old as the hills that they
presumably used as their pillows and through the ages it's been wrapped up in
more allegorical tales than you can climb a beanstalk with but what if they
were onto something what if those whisperings of a time long forgotten
were real let's find out hello Internet what's going on and once again welcome
out to the most inquisitive channel on YouTube life's biggest questions as per
usual arbol de semana flight and voice Jack Finch as today recurs he asked the
question what if Giants were real brother clip
is charity for the Cure's the module that clip was from 2016's The BFG
starring mark Ryland and the awesome Jemaine Clement in the relatively decent
adaptation of Roald Dahl's absolutely awesome novel of the same name then yeah
was the animated version of The BFG is far superior it's not the same as
Jemaine Clement playing the voice of the giant flesh lump eater because he's got
a boo-boo but whilst being a fantastic if not
quite surreal visual cue of just one interpretation of a giant thankfully for
us folklore and ancient religious texts seem to have quite a well-rounded world
view of what giants could or would have looked like if they were real which in
that case let's take a look shall we to begin with although the hypothetical
parameters of this particular lies biggest question has all kinds of
horrifying and terrifying implications of a world gone mad where as tiny little
human beings would live in hidey-holes and deep mountain strongholds where the
Giants couldn't manage to fit their huge bodies through where humanity lived in
constant fear of a race of giant man-eating titans it's pretty much a
given that that would be the situation and when we addressed this initial
question is relatively easy to imagine it being that way because for the most
part it probably would and you only need to watch the animated TV series attack
on Titan to find out just exactly how awful that kind of existence would be
but the often overlooked fact is what if Giants were real as in what if in the
ancient halls of history our planet was already or had already been populated by
a race of giants and what if somewhere down the line maybe just maybe we what
those giants or at the least we were distantly related to them anyway hmm let
me explain have you ever thought of it this way why in so many interpretations
and incarnations of folktales and mythological epics of heroes saving
their city and/or town and/or village do the same old villains seem to take the
top spot why is it always an evil giant that lives in a mountain or behind a
hill or in a swamp I mean perhaps the answer is easy they're big and scary and
it makes some pretty bone-chilling bedtime stories but we need only look
back through mythology to find a different kind of answer and from the
off we have the Abrahamic mythologies and the Nephilim
of giant technologically advanced warriors we have the a naxaiites and the
MIT the Amer rights and the ref AIDS the Abrahamic Bible tells a tale of Gog and
Magog and then we have David who heroically defeated the giant Philistine
Goliath the Armenians spoke of hate the leader
of a race of giants that helped construct the legendary Tower of Babel
the Norse and the Greeks spoke of the Titans and the Giants these cyclopean
offspring of the gods-- the frozen northern Hyperborean z' and the nordic
yotan who emerged from the more primal places of our earth to wage an eternal
elemental war against us Jainism Hinduism and Buddhism all speak of the
daityas or the errors a concept that correlates the size of a sentient being
with their cosmological significance which in some cases denotes these giants
as being up to six miles tall yes miles in ancient Britain Ireland Wales and
Scotland the ancient Celts speak of pretty much every Hill or small mountain
being the head and shoulders of some perturbed ancient giant as the legend
goes the Giant's Causeway of Northern Ireland was created after an Irish and
Scottish giant had a squabbling match and decided to go toe to toe to see who
was the larger of the two and in fact mythology folklore and angel malicious
practices aside there have even been instances in contemporary history of
those allegedly discovering evidence of giants in the winter of 1890 the
notorious French anthropologist George a fractured Ella pooch claimed to have
allegedly discovered a body that measured eleven feet and six inches tall
in the Bronze Age cemetery of Castle nor Lille's in 1894 there were several press
accounts of the discovery of bones of giant humans unearthed at a pre historic
cemetery in Montpellier in France which if it is to be believed a noted evidence
of a race of entities that measured between ten and fifteen feet in height
although the reports document that these bones were then sent to the Paris
Academy for further study no evidence of them currently exists conveniently but
let's instead pause for a moment and go one further and assume that all of these
allegorical references through the rich tapestry of a global culture
indeed a matter the fact and does indeed allude to a race of giants that
populated this planet that somehow somewhere down the line did get wiped
out in some kind of extinction event what would have those creatures look
like because despite all of these mysterious and fantastic claims science
already has a pretty well-established answer and that answer is Giants cannot
exist well bipedal two-legged giants anyway
because obviously elephants and giraffes exist and those guys are awesome the one
fly in this ointment is the square-cube law which states that as an object grows
or shrinks in size its volume grows and shrinks faster than its surface area you
see somewhere along the line due to the cross-sectional effect a creatures
muscles bones and organs cannot strengthen concurrently and as a result
their legs wouldn't be able to support the weight of the rest of their body
it's why we have elephants but not giant humans you see because if these giants
of antiquity did exist physically speaking they won't be able to walk
under their own bodyweight nor would they're all going to be able to power
such a massive frame and nor would they be able to live long enough to develop
the vast complicated societies that allegedly existed in the halls of
ancient history so then what's the answer why is it that our ancient
culture paints such a succinct intricate view of seemingly the same creature the
giant of antiquity the Nephilim the Titan the yoke turn the app kallu of
Sumeria Enoch and Tartarus tall tales literally that imagine a very different
a very vivid civilization before our own but then on the other hand science which
constitutes incredibly substantiated studies of archaeology anthropology
biology and physics very quickly and very rapidly muzzles the notion and says
no it can't have happened it never could have happened what are we missing how
are we even missing anything at all amazing that there are only two
clear-cut possibilities and in many ways there are either Giants did exist a
mythology is founded in some semblance of ancient truth or Giants didn't exist
than the human imagination is incredible and envisioning vile creatures and
creations something far far bigger than us either
way it's pretty damn interesting isn't it well what do you guys think do you
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