Xaviant Haze - 12 June

ANCIENT GIANTS

Ancient Giants is a well-researched blend of myth, legend, academic literature, newspaper accounts, and oral traditions attesting to the reality of giants in our past. The ubiquitous nature of giant lore is stunning in its own right, and the author takes us to every corner of the globe to display that this mystery is more than mere fiction. The fascination with giants exists to this very day and is firmly rooted in the collective unconscious, most likely because it is a historical reality. A very worthwhile addition to the ancient mysteries genre.

JIM VIEIRA, COAUTHOR OF GIANTS ON RECORD AND STAR OF HISTORY CHANNELS SEARCH FOR THE LOST GIANTS

Legends of giants permeate all cultures and eras. Isnt it time we reviewed the evidence with open minds? Xaviant Haze does just that in Ancient Giants.

ANDREW GOUGH, HISTORICAL MYSTERIES DOCUMENTARY PRESENTER AND RESEARCHER

Ancient Giants is a whistle-stop tour of giant mythology and discoveries from around the globe. If you have ever wondered why giants seem to be a universal theme in mythology and religious lore, Xaviant provides a one-stop shop of the bizarre and spectacular world of oversize people.

BRUCE FENTON, AUTHOR OF THE FORGOTTEN EXODUS: THE INTO AFRICA THEORY OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

INTRODUCTION

ANTEDILUVIAN STRUCTURES

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

GEORGE ORWELL

Of all the ancient mysteries handed down by our ancestors, the megalithic monuments remain the most puzzling, especially given that their exact dates and methods of construction remain unknown. Also unknown are the actual builders of these immensely spectacular stone structures. Mainstream academia pretty much glosses over these megaliths that can be found all over the world, assigning their creation to the will of the people or slaves being forced to haul gargantuan stones, weighing tons upon tons. Lost or buried in the mainstream arguments explaining these megaliths are the native or local histories that attribute their construction to a race of giants from a forgotten era.

The folklore of ancient Europe is full of tales starring giants who build massive stone monoliths and battle their way toward the Irish shores. The mysterious lands of Russia have also been slowly revealing their hidden ancient giant history with newly discovered megalithic structures being unearthed at a quickening pace. It seems there is a direct mythological connection between ancient giants and the prehistoric megalithic monuments that stand thousands of years later as immense rock icons of a lost civilization.

Fig. I.1. Stonehenge, John Constable (watercolor, 1835)

From the Holy Lands and across the oceans to the lands of the Native Americans, all of humankinds earliest written and oral accounts speak of an advanced race of beings, commonly referred to as giants. These giants were supposedly a hybrid species fathered by a sophisticated culture that ruled Earth before the last great flood, as much as 11,500 years ago. In fact, modern science is pointing out daily that humans are a hybrid species by admitting that recent DNA tests on the Neanderthals and the newly discovered Denisovans indicate that they share genomes that come from a completely unknown, unidentifiable group of people. These results also include an unknown human ancestor and paint a world full of varying characters similar to those found in Tolkiens Lord of the Rings universe. Could the genomes from the forgotten race of ancient giants provide the mysterious missing link those DNA hunters are looking for?

Mainstream academia teaches that giants, cyclops, and other crypto-zoological beings are nothing more than myths, and the bones that ancient humans believed to be giant bones were misconstrued, being nothing more than prehistoric animal bones. That is the official (and end of) story for the establishment when the topic of ancient giants is discussed. But there is much more to this story, perhaps a bit too much more than many in high academic positions are prepared to admit (especially when doing so could jeopardize their livelihoods).

Genesis 6:4 says:

There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

In Hebrew versions of this passage the word Nephilim is used instead of giants; this controversial word is derived from the Hebrew verb nafol, and means to fall, implying that the Nephilim are the fallen race of giants who ruled the world before being destroyed by God in a global deluge that submerged the antediluvian realm.

The Roman Jewish historian Flavius Josephus wrote about megalithic pillars (the great pyramids of Giza?) that were constructed before the flood by a race of giants who feared a global deluge. It was the hope that the monuments would survive to inspire future generations of humans. It turned out that not only did some of the monuments survive but so, too, did the giants. In The Antiquities of the Jews Flavius Josephus writes:

These kings had laid waste all Syria, and overthrown the offspring of the giants.... There were still then left the 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 to this very day, unlike to any credible relations of other men.

Fig. I.2. Pyramids at Giza, Egypt, Louis Haghe. Wellcome Library, London, Wellcome Images. (colored lithograph, 1848)

Although now relegated to childrens bedtime stories, the tale of David versus Goliath was once seen as more than a morality fable. It was an accepted part of history.

Flavius Josephus continues the history lesson of David, the new king of ancient Israel, and his fight to remove the once mighty race of giants along with the Philistines from the Holy Lands.

A little afterward the king made war against the Philistines; and when he had joined battle with them, and put them to flight, he was left alone, as he was in pursuit of them; and when he was quite tired down, he was seen by one of the enemy; his name was Achmon, the son of Araph, he was one of the sons of the giants. He had a spear, the handle of which weighed three hundred shekels, and a breast-plate of chain-work, and a sword. He turned back, and ran violently to slay their enemys king, for he was quite tired out with labor; but Abishai, Joabs brother, appeared on the sudden, and protected the king with his shield, as he lay down, and slew the enemy....

Fig. I.3. David and Goliath,