by  Jonathan Gray

Introduction

“Bones of an alligator which was as long as a house and as tall as its ceilings have been found on the banks of the Amazon River in South America. Scientists estimate from the alligator’s 1.5 metre skull that it was about 2.5 metres tall, and about 12 metres long. Professor Carl Frailey, from Overland Park, Kansas, said the creature probably weighed about 120 tonnes. ‘This would make it heavier than Tyrannosaurus rex… the mightiest of dinosaur predators’, he said.” (The Sunday Mail, Brisbane, November 17, 1991)

Can you imagine it? Perhaps at this moment you are seated in a room that has a 2.5 meter (8 foot) ceiling. So now, fill up the room with the alligator’s head and upper body, then walk out and back through the whole house. That’s all alligator.

Essentially, everything in the fossil record was larger in the past than it is today.

The environmental conditions of that early world would exercise the full genetic viability of all life forms. There is evidence that the earth supported plant and animal life of fantastic size and numbers.

The fossil record shows that all terrestrial life has decreased in size. The largest members of the animal kingdom are either becoming extinct, or shrinking as if touched by a magic wand. Mammals were often twice the size of their current counterparts.

There were kangaroos as large as today’s hippopotamuses, with skulls a meter long. Sheep were as big as today’s horses. Frogs were 6 to 10 feet (2 to 3 meters), with heads half a meter long – and jaws more powerful than those of a modern ox. Fossil eagles have been found; these birds were 40 feet (13 meters) long and 12 feet (4 meters) high. Oh yes, and lobsters 6 feet (2 meters) long.

Australian koalas were as big as rhinos. In the northwest of South Australia, between 500 and 1,000 skeletons were found of a colossal wombat as large as a rhinoceros! It was given the name Diprotodon.

In New Zealand zoologists from Christchurch chipped out of a cave roof the fossil skeleton of a penguin 7 feet (2.2 meters) tall.

On the Matakaoa foreshore, near Te Araroa, were found preserved prints of a huge animal. The prints extended for some distance. Some were 28 inches (70 centimeters) in breadth.

Personnel at the Dominion Museum suggested the tracks might be those of either the Megatherium or the Labrynthodon, huge mammals estimated to have weighed up to 30 tons.

The Assistant-Director of the Auckland Institute and Museum wrote an article for the Auckland Star and objected to the foregoing information, since “such a statement is not in accordance with the modern scientific view of evolution and of geology.” It was believed that New Zealand’s wildlife had evolved in isolation independently from the rest of the world, hence its uniqueness. But if this were so, then these giants must have evolved parallel with the same giants INDEPENDENTLY in more than one place. This stretched credulity to the limit.

Well, perhaps we should begin to review our scientific theories!

In North and South America fossil crocodiles have been found in the rocks up to 18 meters (54 feet) long. Present-day Australian crocs are small by comparison and grow only to 6 meters (20 feet) long, and that is awesome enough. The coalfields around Manchester and Newcastle (UK) as well as those in Pennsylvania and Alabama (USA), contain giant fossil horse tail rush plants as tall as a five story building. Today horse tails plague British and USA gardens at only 45 cm (18 inches) tall. The common Tassel fern found in Australia and other countries grows only a few feet tall, but in the rocks its fossil ancestors are over 30 meters (100 feet) tall. Alongside such giant preserved plants are fossil cockroaches, forty times bigger than the ones we see today.

On a Nova Scotia field trip led by Australian John Mackay, a giant fossil slater or wood louse was photographed. This monster has been found on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean amongst fossil trees in the coal fields of Nova Scotia and Western Scotland. The fossil was so well preserved that its stomach contents were intact.  There is no difficulty in identifying it as a giant member of the wood lice or roly-poly family which is still here with us. They used to be nearly 2 meters (6 feet) long. Today they are only about ½ inch (1 centimeter) long.

A huge fossil ammonite was discovered on the west coast of New Zealand. It is nearly 2 meters (6 feet) across. This giant shellfish’s only known present day cousin is the Nautilus shell, which measures from 5 to 25 centimeters (2 to 10 inches).

Says English scientist Alfred Russell Wallace: “It is quite clear, therefore, that we live in a zoologically impoverished world, from which all the hugest and fiercest and strangest forms have disappeared.” (The Geographical Distribution of Animals, pp. 150,151) Even Charles Darwin was astonished to discover that “now we find mere pigmies compared with the antecedent allied races.” (Sir Henry Howarth, The Mammoth and the Flood, p. 351)

Ancient Reports of Giants

Traditions drawn from the racial memory of races worldwide state that the very first people on earth were mighty and of immense stature, but that they later degenerated in size and vigour.

For example, the present day Kotoko people of Chad, Africa, claim that their ancestors were giants. “In those days men were so tall they could look over the trees,” they say.

“Men twice as tall as us” once inhabited the “realm of delight”, claim stories of old China, but they lost it by not living “by laws of virtue”.

God was angry with the giants, say the Montagnais Indians of Canada, and sent a flood upon them.

It is a fact that the whole world seems to enshrine ancestral memories of giants. One could cite scores of such legends, from everywhere.

Here are some of them:

EUROPE:

1. NORDIC MYTHS: The Jotunn were great giants.

2. SCANDINAVIA: The first men of creation were as big as mountains.

3. GERMANIC MYTHS: Permanently preoccupied with giants are the myths of the Germanic tribes.

4. GOTHS: The giants were drowned in the Deluge. The survivors fathered a race of giants.

5. CELTIC LEGENDS: The Gargantua giants are spoken of.

6. IRELAND: There are stories of giants called Fomorians.

7. BRITISH LEGENDS: We find Gog and Magog and Albion, the giant-god.

8. CLAUDIUS AELIANUS (2nd century): On Atlantis were “men twice as tall as those common to our climate, and they lived twice as long.”

9. GREEK LEGENDS: The Titans, who some said were the first men on earth, were great giants.

10. GREEK LEGENDS: The Cyclopes were of immense stature and said to be the builders of the enormous masonry in Greece, Italy and certain other areas of the globe.

11. SICILY: Enceladus, the giant who warred with Zeus, was buried under Mt Etna.

12. SICILY: Typhoeus, a giant of a mountain chain of Asia Minor, was also buried at Mt Etna.

13. SICILY: The giant Lestrigons were said to have dwelt in Sicily.

AFRICA:

14. CHAD: There once lived in the Chad region black giants with smooth hair, from whom the present tribes are descended. (Legends of the present day Kotoko tribe)

“The enormous piles of large stone blocks near Goulfei were transported there by the Sao, men so tall that they could look over the trees.” (same tribe)

ASIA:

15. CHALDEA: The Izdubar were giants.

16. BABYLONIANS: “The ancient Babylon was founded by giants saved from the Deluge.”

17. BABYLON: The Babylonian Talmud mentions a prehistoric race of giants who had double rows of teeth.

18. BOOK OF ENOCH: A race of giants dominated the earth before the Flood.

19. APOCRYPHA OF BARVCH: There were 4,090,000 giants before the Flood.

20. INDIAN RECORDS: The Danavas and Daityas were giants, as were the Rakshasas of the Hindu epic.

21. CHINA: “Men twice as tall as us” once inhabited the “realm of delight” but lost it by not living “by laws of virtue.”

22. TIBET: Giants play an important part in the mythology of Tibet.

23. TIBET: The medical lamasery in Tibet claims that long ago Tibet was peopled by a giant race (males averaging 15 feet in height; females averaging 12 feet in height).

24. THAI TRADITION: The earliest men were of colossal size.

AUSTRALASIA-PACIFIC:

25. ABORIGINES, AUSTRALIA: The secret city of Burrunga in Australia’s northern hinterlands was inhabited by gigantic white men with red hair.

26. ABORIGINES, AUSTRALIA: There are many traditions of giant men and women who lived far back in the “dreamtime.”

27. MAORIS, NEW ZEALAND: Tamatekapua, lord of the Arawa Maori migration, now buried on Mt Moehau, Coromandel Peninsula, was 9 feet tall.

28. PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Traditional stories of the Vella area of Papua New Guinea tell of a group of Europeans who tried to colonise the area a few centuries ago. They attempted to build a temple up in the hills, but the local giants would go in at night and throw away all the stonework. However, the temple was built, and still exists, made of the most beautiful marble. The skulls of five of the giants (brothers) are also supposed to be up in the bush. These are about a foot (30 centimeters) across.

NORTH AMERICA:

29. ESKIMOS: “In those days there were giants on the earth.”

30. MONTAGNAIS INDIANS, CANADA: God was angry with the giants and sent a flood upon them.

31. USA: Some Indian tribes worshipped “men of huge stature” who inhabited the region before they arrived.

32. SUPAI CANYON, ARIZONA: A petroglyph depicting a mammoth attacking a man: the man must have been over 10 feet tall, according to the perspective employed by the ancient artist. (Indians in the vicinity stated that the drawings were made by giants of long ago.)

CENTRAL AMERICA:

33. AZTECS, MEXICO: Before the Flood, the land was inhabited by the Tzocullixeco, a giant race.

34. AZTECS, MEXICO: Xelua and his brother giants survived the world flood and built a pyramid to reach the clouds.

35. TOLTECS, MEXICO: The “first age” was brought to an end by fearful destruction due to “floods and lightning,” while in the “second age” our earth was peopled by giants, the Quinametzin.

36. CHOLULA INDIANS, MEXICO: Before the great Flood which took place 4008 years after the creation of the world, the land was inhabited by giants.

37. MAYA, GUATEMALA; INCAS, PERU: The first race created by the gods before the Flood were giants. Two prominent giants were Atlan [Atlas?] and Theitani [Titan?]

SOUTH AMERICA:

38. PERUVIAN TRADITION: The Chavin people, whose civilisation stretched from the Pacific Ocean to the sources of the Amazon, were giants.

39. QUICHUA INDIANS, PERU: Long ago a race of giant men came from the Pacific Ocean in ships, invaded the lowlands of old Peru, forcing the Inca high up into their mountain strongholds in the Andes. These giants were so huge that “from the knee down, they were as tall as a tall man”.

40. TWO INCA LEGENDS, PERU: The city of Tiahuanaco in Bolivia was built by survivors of the Flood; it was built by giants.

As you see, the whole world appears to enshrine ancestral memories of giants.

41. A manuscript called The Apocalypse of Baruch, a pseudepigraphical work written around AD 100 and preserved only in the sixth-century Syriac Vulgate (and which seems a little unclear in parts) appears to hint at the origin of giants:

“Men began as giants. These first giants were very highly developed, intellectually, artistically and physically: they had power over birds and animals… they misbehaved and were abolished by God, and ordinary men took their place…”

So many of the legends recall that mankind also lived far longer – even hundreds of years.

Interestingly, this is exactly what the ancient Biblical writings have been saying for so long. From a high, blissful condition, man fell and steadily deteriorated. He was created with a noble physique and a powerful brain, which have degenerated through wrong living.

Excerpt from Lost World of Giants

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