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id="toc-Roman" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Roman"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.12</span> <span>Roman</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Roman-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Other_European" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Other_European"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.13</span> <span>Other European</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Other_European-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Names" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Names"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Names</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Names-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D9%85%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%82_(%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AB_%D8%B4%D8%B9%D8%A8%D9%8A)" title="عملاق (تراث شعبي) – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="عملاق (تراث شعبي)" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-an mw-list-item"><a href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_granizo" title="Home granizo – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="Home granizo" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Aragonés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%88%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF_(%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A3)" title="দৈত্য (পুরাণ) – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="দৈত্য (পুরাণ)" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C4%AB-j%C3%AEn" title="Kī-jîn – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Kī-jîn" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%82" title="Волат – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Волат" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%82" title="Волат – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Волат" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BD" title="Великан – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Великан" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramz" title="Ramz – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Ramz" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gegant_(mitologia)" title="Gegant (mitologia) – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Gegant (mitologia)" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%8B%D1%88%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%81%C4%83%D1%80_%D0%BF%D1%8B%D1%81%C4%83%D0%BA_%C3%A7%D1%8B%D0%BD" title="Вышкайсăр пысăк çын – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="Вышкайсăр пысăк çын" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Чӑвашла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obr" title="Obr – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Obr" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cawr" title="Cawr – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Cawr" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A6mpe" title="Kæmpe – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Kæmpe" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riese" title="Riese – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Riese" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiid" title="Hiid – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Hiid" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%93%CE%AF%CE%B3%CE%B1%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%B1%CF%82_(%CE%BC%CF%85%CE%B8%CE%BF%CE%BB%CE%BF%CE%B3%CE%AF%CE%B1)" title="Γίγαντας (μυθολογία) – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Γίγαντας (μυθολογία)" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigante_(mitolog%C3%ADa)" title="Gigante (mitología) – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Gigante (mitología)" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giganto_(mitologio)" title="Giganto (mitologio) – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Giganto (mitologio)" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erraldoi_(mitologia)" title="Erraldoi (mitologia) – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Erraldoi (mitologia)" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%BA%D9%88%D9%84" title="غول – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="غول" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9ant_(mythologie)" title="Géant (mythologie) – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Géant (mythologie)" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reus_(mytysk_w%C3%AAzen)" title="Reus (mytysk wêzen) – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Reus (mytysk wêzen)" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-inh mw-list-item"><a href="https://inh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%88" title="Вампалаш – Ingush" lang="inh" hreflang="inh" data-title="Вампалаш" data-language-autonym="ГӀалгӀай" data-language-local-name="Ingush" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ГӀалгӀай</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B1%B0%EC%9D%B8" title="거인 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="거인" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%80%D5%BD%D5%AF%D5%A1" title="Հսկա – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Հսկա" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Div" title="Div – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Div" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raksasa" title="Raksasa – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Raksasa" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigante" title="Gigante – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Gigante" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A2%D7%A0%D7%A7" title="ענק – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="ענק" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ks mw-list-item"><a href="https://ks.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%9A%D9%88" title="دیٚو – Kashmiri" lang="ks" hreflang="ks" data-title="دیٚو" data-language-autonym="कॉशुर / کٲشُر" data-language-local-name="Kashmiri" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>कॉशुर / کٲشُر</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BD_(%D0%A5%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE_%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BB%D1%8B%D1%81%D1%8B)" title="Великан (Хасково облысы) – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Великан (Хасково облысы)" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Njemba" title="Njemba – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Njemba" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%BF" title="Алп – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Алп" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigantes" title="Gigantes – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Gigantes" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milzis_(mitolo%C4%A3ija)" title="Milzis (mitoloģija) – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Milzis (mitoloģija)" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" 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class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Being of human appearance, usually of prodigious size and strength, common in folklore</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For female giants, see <a href="/wiki/Giantess" title="Giantess">Giantess</a>.</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Giant_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Giant (disambiguation)">Giant 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typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg/40px-Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg/60px-Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg/80px-Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" /></span></span></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist">Look up <i><b><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/giant" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:giant">giant</a></b></i> in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.</div></div> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Rhinegold_and_the_Valkyries_p_032.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Rhinegold_and_the_Valkyries_p_032.jpg/170px-Rhinegold_and_the_Valkyries_p_032.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="217" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Rhinegold_and_the_Valkyries_p_032.jpg/255px-Rhinegold_and_the_Valkyries_p_032.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Rhinegold_and_the_Valkyries_p_032.jpg/340px-Rhinegold_and_the_Valkyries_p_032.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1480" data-file-height="1888" /></a><figcaption>The giants <a href="/wiki/Fafnir" class="mw-redirect" title="Fafnir">Fafner</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fasolt" title="Fasolt">Fasolt</a> seize <a href="/wiki/Freyja" title="Freyja">Freyja</a> in <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Rackham" title="Arthur Rackham">Arthur Rackham</a>'s illustration of <a href="/wiki/Richard_Wagner" title="Richard Wagner">Richard Wagner</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Der_Ring_des_Nibelungen" title="Der Ring des Nibelungen">Der Ring des Nibelungen</a></i>.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Giganti_di_Messina_(Mata_e_Grifone)_-_Messina_(Sicily)_-_Italy_-_15_Aug._2009_-_(4).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Giganti_di_Messina_%28Mata_e_Grifone%29_-_Messina_%28Sicily%29_-_Italy_-_15_Aug._2009_-_%284%29.jpg/220px-Giganti_di_Messina_%28Mata_e_Grifone%29_-_Messina_%28Sicily%29_-_Italy_-_15_Aug._2009_-_%284%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Giganti_di_Messina_%28Mata_e_Grifone%29_-_Messina_%28Sicily%29_-_Italy_-_15_Aug._2009_-_%284%29.jpg/330px-Giganti_di_Messina_%28Mata_e_Grifone%29_-_Messina_%28Sicily%29_-_Italy_-_15_Aug._2009_-_%284%29.jpg 1.5x, 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title="Being">beings</a> of <a href="/wiki/Humanoid" title="Humanoid">humanoid</a> appearance, but are at times prodigious in size and strength or bear an otherwise notable appearance. The word <i>giant</i> is first attested in 1297 from <a href="/wiki/Robert_of_Gloucester_(historian)" title="Robert of Gloucester (historian)">Robert of Gloucester</a>'s chronicle.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is derived from the <i><a href="/wiki/Giants_(Greek_mythology)" title="Giants (Greek mythology)">Gigantes</a></i> (<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1248666159">.mw-parser-output .tfd-dated{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .tfd-default{border-bottom:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);clear:both;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .tfd-tiny{font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .tfd-inline{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1)}.mw-parser-output .tfd-sidebar{border-bottom:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);text-align:center;position:relative}@media(min-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .tfd-sidebar{clear:right;float:right;width:22em}}</style><span class="tfd tfd-dated tfd-tiny"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2024_November_12#Template:Lang-grc-gre" title="Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2024 November 12">‹See Tfd›</a></span><a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a>: <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">Γίγαντες</span></span><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) of <a href="/wiki/Greek_mythology" title="Greek mythology">Greek mythology</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Fairy_tales" class="mw-redirect" title="Fairy tales">Fairy tales</a> such as <i><a href="/wiki/Jack_the_Giant_Killer" title="Jack the Giant Killer">Jack the Giant Killer</a></i> have formed the modern perception of giants as dimwitted and violent <a href="/wiki/Ogre" title="Ogre">ogres</a>, sometimes said to eat humans, while other giants tend to eat livestock. In more recent portrayals, like those of <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Swift" title="Jonathan Swift">Jonathan Swift</a> and <a href="/wiki/Roald_Dahl" title="Roald Dahl">Roald Dahl</a>, some giants are both intelligent and friendly. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Literary_and_cultural_analysis">Literary and cultural analysis</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Giant&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Literary and cultural analysis"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Giants appear many times in folklore and myths. Representing the human body enlarged to the point of being monstrous, giants evoke terror and remind humans of their body's frailty and mortality. They are often portrayed as monsters and antagonists, but there are exceptions. Some giants intermingle with humans in a friendly way and can even be part of human families with their offspring being portrayed as regular humans where they are often referred to as <a href="/wiki/Half-giant" title="Half-giant">half-giants</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Weinstock2016_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Weinstock2016-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Folklorists and historians examine the role giants are assigned in regional <a href="/wiki/Geomythology" title="Geomythology">geomythologies</a>. For example, <a href="/wiki/Fionn_mac_Cumhaill" title="Fionn mac Cumhaill">Fionn mac Cumhaill</a> is said to have built the <a href="/wiki/Giant%27s_Causeway" title="Giant's Causeway">Giant's Causeway</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Island_of_Ireland" class="mw-redirect" title="Island of Ireland">island of Ireland</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Per a 1965 examination in an <a href="/wiki/American_studies" title="American studies">American studies</a> journal, "It is generally admitted today that <a href="/wiki/Paul_Bunyan" title="Paul Bunyan">Paul Bunyan</a> was a synthetic figure conceived by advertising men rather than the spontaneous product of the folk mind, yet he has been adopted by the American people with enthusiasm...Paul and his blue ox Babe are supposed to have altered the appearance of the American continent; the animal's hoof prints became the lake beds of the Northwest and from its drinking trough spilled the <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_River" title="Mississippi River">Mississippi River</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Fossilized remains of ancient mammals and reptiles common to the <a href="/wiki/Sivalik_Hills" title="Sivalik Hills">Sivalik Hills</a> of India may have influenced aspects of the <a href="/wiki/Mah%C4%81bh%C4%81rata" class="mw-redirect" title="Mahābhārata">Mahābhārata</a> that tell of battles in which "hundreds of mighty, and sometimes gigantic, heroes, horses, and <a href="/wiki/War_elephants" class="mw-redirect" title="War elephants">war elephants</a> are said to have died."<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Archeology_and_paleontology">Archeology and paleontology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Giant&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Archeology and paleontology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/w/index.php?title=Claudine_Cohen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Claudine Cohen (page does not exist)">Claudine Cohen</a>, in her 2002 book <i>The Fate of the Mammoth</i>, argued that the history of human interaction with fossil bones of prehistoric <a href="/wiki/Megafauna" title="Megafauna">megafauna</a> was heavily influenced by giant lore.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Per Cohen, the proto-scientific study of giants appears in several phases of human history: <a href="/wiki/Herodotus" title="Herodotus">Herotodus</a> reported that the <a href="/wiki/Orestes#Reported_remains" title="Orestes">remains of Orestes</a> were found in <a href="/wiki/Tegea" title="Tegea">Tegea</a>; <a href="/wiki/Pliny_the_Younger" title="Pliny the Younger">Pliny</a> described a giant's skeleton found in <a href="/wiki/Crete" title="Crete">Crete</a> after an earthquake, and seemed to refer to evolution as the process by which giants become human-size over time; and <a href="/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo" title="Augustine of Hippo">Saint Augustine</a> mentions what is believed to have been the fossilized molar of an ancient <a href="/wiki/Elephantidae" title="Elephantidae">Elephantidae</a> in his <i><a href="/wiki/The_City_of_God" title="The City of God">City of God</a></i>, in a passage reflecting on the nature and meaning of the Noahacian deluge.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The academic consideration of giants continued through the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and even the early modern period. <a href="/wiki/Giovanni_Boccaccio" title="Giovanni Boccaccio">Boccaccio</a> devoted a passage of his <i><a href="/wiki/Genealogies_of_the_Pagan_Gods" class="mw-redirect" title="Genealogies of the Pagan Gods">Genealogies of the Pagan Gods</a></i> to purported archeological discoveries in Sicily that he thought might be evidence of the historicity of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Odyssey" class="mw-redirect" title="The Odyssey">The Odyssey</a></i>'s <a href="/wiki/Polyphemus" title="Polyphemus">Polyphemus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Rabelais" title="François Rabelais">Rabelais</a> created a wholly "fabricated giantology" for his 16th-century <i><a href="/wiki/Gargantua_and_Pantagruel" title="Gargantua and Pantagruel">Gargantua and Pantagruel</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Massive bones found in 1613 in France were initially assigned to <a href="/wiki/Teutobochus" title="Teutobochus">Teutobochus</a> but the examinations of them by various physicians and their publication of diverging conclusions about the bones kicked off a "pamphlet war" between anatomists and surgeons of the day.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The discovery of the so-called <a href="/w/index.php?title=Claverack_Giant&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Claverack Giant (page does not exist)">Claverack Giant</a> in <a href="/wiki/Province_of_New_York" title="Province of New York">colonial New York</a> triggered giantological investigations by two important early American intellectuals, <a href="/wiki/Cotton_Mather" title="Cotton Mather">Cotton Mather</a> and <a href="/wiki/Edward_Taylor" title="Edward Taylor">Edward Taylor</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Religion_and_mythology">Religion and mythology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Giant&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Religion and mythology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Abrahamic">Abrahamic</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Giant&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Abrahamic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table 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The word <i>Nephilim</i> is loosely translated as <i>giants</i> in some translations of the Hebrew Bible, but left untranslated in others. According to <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Genesis%207:23&version=nrsv">Genesis 7:23</a>, the Nephilim were destroyed in the Flood, but Nephilim are reported after the Flood, including: </p> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Anakim" title="Anakim">Anakim</a><sup id="cite_ref-bibleref2|Numbers|13:28–33_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bibleref2|Numbers|13:28–33-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Amorites" title="Amorites">Amorites</a><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Rephaite" title="Rephaite">Rephaites</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> also known as The <a href="/wiki/Emite" title="Emite">Emites</a><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Numbers" title="Book of Numbers">Book of Numbers</a><sup id="cite_ref-bibleref2|Numbers|13:28–33_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bibleref2|Numbers|13:28–33-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> includes the discouraging report by the spies sent by <a href="/wiki/Moses" title="Moses">Moses</a> into <a href="/wiki/Canaan" title="Canaan">Canaan</a>: "We can't attack those people; they are stronger than we are. (...) All the people we saw there are of great size. We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like <a href="/wiki/Grasshopper" title="Grasshopper">grasshoppers</a> in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them." The <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Joshua" title="Book of Joshua">Book of Joshua</a>, describing the actual conquest of Canaan in a later generation, makes reference to such people living there in (Joshua 14:12–15 and Joshua 15:13–14). </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Osmar_Schindler_David_und_Goliath.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Osmar_Schindler_David_und_Goliath.jpg/170px-Osmar_Schindler_David_und_Goliath.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="235" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Osmar_Schindler_David_und_Goliath.jpg/255px-Osmar_Schindler_David_und_Goliath.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Osmar_Schindler_David_und_Goliath.jpg/340px-Osmar_Schindler_David_und_Goliath.jpg 2x" data-file-width="561" data-file-height="777" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/David" title="David">David</a> faces <a href="/wiki/Goliath" title="Goliath">Goliath</a> in this 1888 lithograph by <a href="/wiki/Osmar_Schindler" title="Osmar Schindler">Osmar Schindler</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The Bible also tells of <a href="/wiki/Gog_and_Magog#Giants" title="Gog and Magog">Gog and Magog</a>, who later entered European folklore, and of the famous battle between <a href="/wiki/David" title="David">David</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Philistine" class="mw-redirect" title="Philistine">Philistine</a> <a href="/wiki/Goliath" title="Goliath">Goliath</a>. While Goliath is often portrayed as a giant in retellings of the Biblical narrative, he appears to be significantly smaller than other giants, biblical or otherwise. The <a href="/wiki/Masoretic_Text" title="Masoretic Text">Masoretic Text</a> version of the <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Samuel" class="mw-redirect" title="Book of Samuel">Book of Samuel</a> gives his height as six <a href="/wiki/Biblical_cubit" class="mw-redirect" title="Biblical cubit">cubits</a> and one span (possibly 313–372 centimetres (10 ft 3 in – 12 ft 2 in)),<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while the <a href="/wiki/Septuagint" title="Septuagint">Septuagint</a>, the 1st-century Jewish historian <a href="/wiki/Flavius_Josephus" class="mw-redirect" title="Flavius Josephus">Flavius Josephus</a> and the 2nd–1st-centuries BCE <a href="/wiki/Dead_Sea_Scrolls" title="Dead Sea Scrolls">Dead Sea Scrolls</a> give Goliath's height as four cubits and one span (possibly 216–258 centimetres (7 ft 1 in – 8 ft 6 in)).<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For comparison, the Anakites are described as making the Israelites seem like grasshoppers.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> See also <a href="/wiki/Gibborim_(biblical)" title="Gibborim (biblical)">Gibborim</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Josephus" title="Josephus">Josephus</a> also described the Amorites as giants in his <i><a href="/wiki/Antiquities_of_the_Jews" title="Antiquities of the Jews">Antiquities of the Jews</a></i>, circa 93<span class="nowrap"> </span>CE, indicating that some sort of fossils may have been on display at that time:<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "For which reason they removed their camp to Hebron; and when they had taken it, they slew all the inhabitants. There were till 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."<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Enoch" title="Book of Enoch">Book of Enoch</a> describes giants as the offspring of <a href="/wiki/Watcher_(angel)" title="Watcher (angel)">Watchers</a> and women in 7:2.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Armenian">Armenian</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Giant&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Armenian"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Hayk" title="Hayk">Hayk</a> was known as the founder of the Armenian state. Hayk was part of a race of giants who helped construct the <a href="/wiki/Tower_of_Babel" title="Tower of Babel">Tower of Babel</a>. Ancient historian <a href="/wiki/Movses_Khorenatsi" title="Movses Khorenatsi">Movses Khorenatsi</a> wrote, "Hayk was handsome and personable, with curly hair, sparkling eyes and strong arms. Among the giants he was the bravest and most famous, opponent of all who raised their hand to become absolute ruler over the giants and heroes."<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Mount_Nemrut" title="Mount Nemrut">Mount Nemrut</a> is known to have received its name from an Armenian tradition in which <a href="/wiki/Nimrod" title="Nimrod">Nimrod</a> was killed by an arrow shot by Hayk during a massive battle between two rival armies of giants to the south-east of <a href="/wiki/Lake_Van" title="Lake Van">Lake Van</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Aztec">Aztec</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Giant&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Aztec"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Aztec_mythology" title="Aztec mythology">Aztec mythology</a> features the <a href="/wiki/Quinametzin" title="Quinametzin">Quinametzin</a>, a race of giant men created in one of the previous <a href="/wiki/Five_Suns" title="Five Suns">solar eras</a>. They are credited with the construction of <a href="/wiki/Teotihuacan" title="Teotihuacan">Teotihuacan</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Basque">Basque</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Giant&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Basque"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Giants are rough but generally righteous characters of formidable strength living in the hills of the <a href="/wiki/Basque_Country_(greater_region)" title="Basque Country (greater region)">Basque Country</a>. Giants stand for the Basque people reluctant to convert to Christianity who decide to stick to the old lifestyle and customs in the forest. Sometimes they hold the secret of ancient techniques and wisdom unknown to the Christians, like in the legend of <a href="/wiki/San_Martin_Txiki" title="San Martin Txiki">San Martin Txiki</a>, while their most outstanding feature is their strength. It follows that in many legends all over the Basque territory the giants are held accountable for the creation of many stone formations, hills and ages-old <a href="/wiki/Megalith" title="Megalith">megalithic</a> structures (<a href="/wiki/Dolmen" title="Dolmen">dolmens</a>, etc.), with similar explanations provided in different spots. </p><p>However, giants show different variants and forms, they are most frequently referred to as <a href="/wiki/Jentil" title="Jentil">jentilak</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mairu" title="Mairu">mairuak</a>, while as individuals they can be represented as <a href="/wiki/Basajaun" title="Basajaun">Basajaun</a> ("the lord of the forests"), Sanson (variation of the biblical <a href="/wiki/Samson" title="Samson">Samson</a>), Errolan (based on the <a href="/wiki/Franks" title="Franks">Frankish</a> army general <a href="/wiki/Roland" title="Roland">Roland</a> who fell dead at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Roncevaux_Pass" title="Battle of Roncevaux Pass">Battle of Roncevaux Pass</a>) or even <a href="/wiki/Tartalo" title="Tartalo">Tartalo</a> (a one-eyed giant akin to the Greek <a href="/wiki/Cyclopes" title="Cyclopes">Cyclops</a> <a href="/wiki/Polyphemus" title="Polyphemus">Polyphemus</a>). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bulgarian">Bulgarian</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Giant&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Bulgarian"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Ispolin" title="Ispolin">Ispolin</a></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Bulgarians" title="Bulgarians">Bulgarian</a> mythology, giants called <a href="/wiki/Ispolin_(Bulgarian_mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ispolin (Bulgarian mythology)">ispolini</a> inhabited the Earth before modern humans. They lived in the mountains, fed on raw meat and often fought against <a href="/wiki/Dragon" title="Dragon">dragons</a>. Ispolini were afraid of <a href="/wiki/Blackberry" title="Blackberry">blackberries</a> which posed a danger of making the giants trip and die, so they offered sacrifices to that plant.<sup id="cite_ref-stoynev_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stoynev-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chilean">Chilean</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Giant&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Chilean"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Chilean_mythology" title="Chilean mythology">Chilean mythology</a></div> <p>There are tales of giants in the northern Chilean port town of <a href="/wiki/Caldera,_Chile" title="Caldera, Chile">Caldera</a> telling of giants who play with ships moving them from one port to another.<sup id="cite_ref-Sonia2015_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sonia2015-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tales of the same area also tells of giants who are able to crush humans with their feet and when laying down to sleep being so long as to reach from the mountains to the sea.<sup id="cite_ref-Sonia2015_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sonia2015-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In some stories the giants are black humanoids or black bulls.<sup id="cite_ref-Sonia2015_24-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sonia2015-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <a href="/wiki/Zona_Sur" title="Zona Sur">southern Chile</a> there are stories of giants said to belong to certain volcanoes such as <a href="/wiki/Calbuco_(volcano)" title="Calbuco (volcano)">Calbuco</a> and <a href="/wiki/Osorno_(volcano)" title="Osorno (volcano)">Osorno</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Sonia2015_24-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sonia2015-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Mythical_city" class="mw-redirect" title="Mythical city">mythical city</a> of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Tololo_Pampa&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tololo Pampa (page does not exist)">Tololo Pampa</a> in northern Chile is said to be guarded by a giant known by various names including; <i>Pata Larga</i>, <i>Gigante Minero</i> and <i>Minero Gigante</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-plath-79_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-plath-79-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The giant enters to the mountains to obtain riches to the princess of Tololo Pampa.<sup id="cite_ref-plath-79_25-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-plath-79-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> If a person manages to watch the giant while he works folklore says the person will be blessed with <a href="/wiki/Good_luck" class="mw-redirect" title="Good luck">good luck</a> for the rest of their life.<sup id="cite_ref-plath-79_25-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-plath-79-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Greek">Greek</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Giant&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Greek"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Giants_(Greek_mythology)" title="Giants (Greek mythology)">Giants (Greek mythology)</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Herakles_Antaios_Louvre_G103.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Herakles_Antaios_Louvre_G103.jpg/220px-Herakles_Antaios_Louvre_G103.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="142" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Herakles_Antaios_Louvre_G103.jpg/330px-Herakles_Antaios_Louvre_G103.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Herakles_Antaios_Louvre_G103.jpg/440px-Herakles_Antaios_Louvre_G103.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3004" data-file-height="1944" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Heracles" title="Heracles">Heracles</a> faces the giant <a href="/wiki/Antaios" class="mw-redirect" title="Antaios">Antaios</a> in this illustration on a calix <a href="/wiki/Krater" title="Krater">krater</a>, c. 515–510 BC.</figcaption></figure> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Greek_mythology" title="Greek mythology">Greek mythology</a>, the <i><a href="/wiki/Giants_(Greek_mythology)" title="Giants (Greek mythology)">Gigantes</a></i> (γίγαντες) were (according to the poet <a href="/wiki/Hesiod" title="Hesiod">Hesiod</a>) the children of <a href="/wiki/Uranus_(mythology)" title="Uranus (mythology)">Uranus</a> (Ουρανός) and <a href="/wiki/Gaia_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaia (mythology)">Gaia</a> (Γαία) (spirits of the sky and the earth) where some depictions had them with snake-like legs. They were involved in a conflict with the <a href="/wiki/Twelve_Olympians" title="Twelve Olympians">Olympian gods</a> called the <i><a href="/wiki/Gigantomachy" class="mw-redirect" title="Gigantomachy">Gigantomachy</a></i> (Γιγαντομαχία) when Gaia had them attack <a href="/wiki/Mount_Olympus" title="Mount Olympus">Mount Olympus</a>. This battle was eventually settled when the hero <a href="/wiki/Heracles" title="Heracles">Heracles</a> decided to help the Olympians. The Greeks believed some of them, like <a href="/wiki/Enceladus_(giant)" class="mw-redirect" title="Enceladus (giant)">Enceladus</a>, to lie buried from that time under the earth and that their tormented quivers resulted in <a href="/wiki/Earthquakes" class="mw-redirect" title="Earthquakes">earthquakes</a> and <a href="/wiki/Volcanic_eruption" class="mw-redirect" title="Volcanic eruption">volcanic eruptions</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Herodotus" title="Herodotus">Herodotus</a> in Book 1, Chapter 68, describes how the <a href="/wiki/Sparta" title="Sparta">Spartans</a> uncovered in <a href="/wiki/Tegea" title="Tegea">Tegea</a> the body of <a href="/wiki/Orestes" title="Orestes">Orestes</a>, which was seven cubits long ⁠ ⁠— approximately 3.73<span class="nowrap"> </span>m, or about 12<span class="nowrap"> </span>feet 3<span class="nowrap"> </span>inches. In his book <i>The Comparison of Romulus with Theseus</i>, <a href="/wiki/Plutarch" title="Plutarch">Plutarch</a> describes how the <a href="/wiki/Athenians" class="mw-redirect" title="Athenians">Athenians</a> uncovered the body of <a href="/wiki/Theseus" title="Theseus">Theseus</a>, which was "of more than ordinary size." The kneecaps of <a href="/wiki/Ajax_the_Great" title="Ajax the Great">Ajax</a> were exactly the size of a <a href="/wiki/Discus_throw" title="Discus throw">discus</a> for the boy's <a href="/wiki/Pentathlon" title="Pentathlon">pentathlon</a>, wrote <a href="/wiki/Pausanias_(geographer)" title="Pausanias (geographer)">Pausanias</a>. A boy's discus was about 12 cm (4.7 in) in diameter, while a normal adult <a href="/wiki/Patella" title="Patella">patella</a> is around 5 cm (2.0 in), suggesting Ajax may have been nearly 14<span class="nowrap"> </span>feet (over 4<span class="nowrap"> </span>m) tall. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Cyclopes" title="Cyclopes">Cyclopes</a> are also compared to giants due to their huge size (e.g.<span class="nowrap"> </span><a href="/wiki/Polyphemus" title="Polyphemus">Polyphemus</a>, son of <a href="/wiki/Poseidon" title="Poseidon">Poseidon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Thoosa" title="Thoosa">Thoosa</a> and nemesis of <a href="/wiki/Odysseus" title="Odysseus">Odysseus</a> in <a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Odyssey" title="Odyssey"><i>The Odyssey</i></a>). The Elder Cyclopes were the children of Gaia and Uranus, and later made <a href="/wiki/Zeus" title="Zeus">Zeus</a>' "master thunderbolt", Poseidon's trident, and <a href="/wiki/Hades" title="Hades">Hades</a>' "helm of darkness", during the <a href="/wiki/Titanomachy" title="Titanomachy">Titanomachy</a>. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Hecatoncheires" title="Hecatoncheires">Hecatoncheires</a> are giants that have 100 arms and 50 heads who were also the children of Gaia and Uranus. </p><p>Other known giant races in Greek mythology include the six-armed <a href="/wiki/Gegenees" title="Gegenees">Gegeines</a>, the northern <a href="/wiki/Hyperborea" title="Hyperborea">Hyperboreans</a>, and the cannibalistic <a href="/wiki/Laestrygonians" title="Laestrygonians">Laestrygonians</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hindu">Hindu</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Giant&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Hindu"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There are accounts stating humans grew to the size of giants during the <a href="/wiki/Satya_Yuga" title="Satya Yuga">Satya Yuga</a>, the first of the four cyclical ages (yugas) in the <a href="/wiki/Hinduism" title="Hinduism">Hindu</a> reckoning of time.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Jain">Jain</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Giant&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Jain"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to <a href="/wiki/Jainism" title="Jainism">Jainism</a>, there was a time when giants walked upon this earth.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEZimmer1953226_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEZimmer1953226-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Jain_cosmology" title="Jain cosmology">Jain cosmology</a> divides the worldly cycle of time into two parts or half-cycles, <i>avasarpani</i> (age of descending purity) and ascending (<i>utsarpani</i>).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJain2015175_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJain2015175-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Jain_Cosmic_Time_Cycle.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Jain_Cosmic_Time_Cycle.jpg/220px-Jain_Cosmic_Time_Cycle.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="161" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Jain_Cosmic_Time_Cycle.jpg/330px-Jain_Cosmic_Time_Cycle.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Jain_Cosmic_Time_Cycle.jpg/440px-Jain_Cosmic_Time_Cycle.jpg 2x" data-file-width="798" data-file-height="584" /></a><figcaption>Division of time as envisaged by Jains. Human beings are said to be much taller than today in the first four <i>aras</i> of <i>avasarpani</i> and last four <i>aras</i> of <i>utsarpani</i>.</figcaption></figure> <p>According to <a href="/wiki/Jain_texts" class="mw-redirect" title="Jain texts">Jain texts</a>, the height of <a href="/wiki/Rishabhanatha" title="Rishabhanatha">Rishabhanatha</a>, first <i><a href="/wiki/Tirthankara" title="Tirthankara">tirthankara</a></i> of the present half-cycle of time (<i>avasarpani</i>) was 500 <i>dhanusa</i> (longbow).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJain2015181_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJain2015181-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <i>avasarpani</i>, as the cycle moves ahead, height of all humans and animals decreases. The following table depicts the six <i>aras</i> of <i>avasarpini</i>– </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr style="background:#9c0; font-size:12pt; font-weight:bold;"> <td style="width:128.25; height:15.75;">Name of the Ara </td> <td style="width:167.25;">Degree of happiness </td> <td style="width:250.5;">Duration of Ara </td> <td style="width:250.5;">Average height of people </td> <td style="width:250.5;">Average lifespan of people </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:bottom;"> <td style="height:12.75;"><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">Sukhama-sukhamā</i></span> </td> <td>Utmost happiness and no sorrow </td> <td><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">400 trillion sāgaropamas</i></span> </td> <td>Six miles tall </td> <td>Three palyopama years </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:bottom;"> <td style="height:12.75;"><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">Sukhamā</i></span> </td> <td>Moderate happiness and no sorrow </td> <td><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">300 trillion sāgaropamas</i></span> </td> <td>Four miles tall </td> <td>Two palyopama Years </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:bottom;"> <td style="height:12.75;"><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">Sukhama-dukhamā</i></span> </td> <td>Happiness with very little sorrow </td> <td><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">200 trillion sāgaropamas</i></span> </td> <td>Two miles tall </td> <td>One palyopama years </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:bottom;"> <td style="height:12.75;"><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">Dukhama-sukhamā</i></span> </td> <td>Happiness with little sorrow </td> <td><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">100 trillion sāgaropamas</i></span> </td> <td>1500 meters </td> <td>705.6 quintillion years </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:bottom;"> <td style="height:12.75;"><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">Dukhamā</i></span> </td> <td>Sorrow with very little Happiness </td> <td>21,000 years </td> <td>6 feet </td> <td>130 years maximum </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:bottom;"> <td style="height:12.75;"><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">Dukhama- dukhamā</i></span> </td> <td>Extreme sorrow and misery </td> <td>21,000 years </td> <td>2 feet </td> <td>16–20 years </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Norse">Norse</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Giant&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Norse"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/J%C3%B6tunn" title="Jötunn">Jötunn</a></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Norse_mythology" title="Norse mythology">Norse mythology</a>, the <span title="Old Norse-language text"><i lang="non">jötnar</i></span> (cognate with <a href="/wiki/Old_English_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Old English language">Old English</a>: <i lang="ang">eotenas</i> and English: <span lang="en"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ettin" class="extiw" title="wikt:ettin">ettin</a></span>) are often opposed to the gods. While often translated as "giants", most are described as being roughly human-sized. Some are portrayed as huge, such as some frost giants (<i>hrímþursar</i>), fire giants (<i>eldjötnar</i>), and mountain giants (<i>bergrisar</i>). The <span title="Old Norse-language text"><i lang="non">jötnar</i></span> are the origin of most of various monsters in Norse mythology (e.g. the <a href="/wiki/Fenrisulfr" class="mw-redirect" title="Fenrisulfr">Fenrisulfr</a>) and in the eventual battle of <a href="/wiki/Ragnar%C3%B6k" title="Ragnarök">Ragnarök</a>, the giants will storm <a href="/wiki/Asgard" title="Asgard">Asgard</a> and fight the gods until the world is destroyed. Even so, the gods themselves were related to the <span title="Old Norse-language text"><i lang="non">jötnar</i></span> by many marriages and descent; there are also <span title="Old Norse-language text"><i lang="non">jötnar</i></span> such as <a href="/wiki/%C3%86gir" title="Ægir">Ægir</a> who have good relationships with the gods and bear little difference in status to them. <a href="/wiki/Odin" title="Odin">Odin</a>, often regarded as the chief god, is the great-grandson of the <span title="Old Norse-language text"><i lang="non">jötunn</i></span> <a href="/wiki/Ymir" title="Ymir">Ymir</a>. Norse mythology also holds that the entire world of men was created from the flesh of Ymir, a giant of cosmic proportions whose name is considered by some scholars to share a <a href="/wiki/Root_(linguistics)" title="Root (linguistics)">root</a> with <a href="/wiki/Yama" title="Yama">Yama</a> of Indo-Iranian mythology. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Troll" title="Troll">Trolls</a> are beings that are sometimes very large. The name <i>troll</i> is applied to <span title="Old Norse-language text"><i lang="non">jötnar</i></span>. </p><p>An old <a href="/wiki/Iceland" title="Iceland">Icelandic</a> legend says that two night-prowling giants, a man and a woman, were traversing the <a href="/wiki/Fjord" title="Fjord">fjord</a> near <a href="/wiki/Drangey" title="Drangey">Drangey</a> Island with their cow when they were surprised by the bright rays of daybreak. As a result of exposure to daylight, all three were turned into stone. Drangey represents the cow and Kerling (supposedly the female giant, the name means "old hag") is to the south of it. Karl (the male giant) was to the north of the island, but he disappeared long ago. </p><p>A <i>bergrisi</i> – the traditional protector of southwestern Iceland – appears as a <a href="/wiki/Supporter" title="Supporter">supporter</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Iceland" title="Coat of arms of Iceland">coat of arms of Iceland</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Paiute">Paiute</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Giant&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Paiute"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to <a href="/wiki/Northern_Paiute_people" title="Northern Paiute people">Northern Paiute</a> oral history, the <a href="/wiki/Si-Te-Cah" title="Si-Te-Cah">Si-Te-Cah</a> or Sai'i are a legendary tribe of red-haired <a href="/wiki/Human_cannibalism" title="Human cannibalism">cannibalistic</a> giants, the remains of which were allegedly found in 1911 by <a href="/wiki/Guano" title="Guano">guano</a> miners in Nevada's <a href="/wiki/Lovelock_Cave" title="Lovelock Cave">Lovelock Cave</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Loud,_Llewellyn_L._1929_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Loud,_Llewellyn_L._1929-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Furthermore, the Paiute creation story tells of "beautiful giants" who once lived between the <a href="/wiki/Sierra_Nevada" title="Sierra Nevada">Sierra Nevadas</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Rocky_Mountains" title="Rocky Mountains">Rocky Mountains</a>. After giving birth to a disfigured child, the giants treated the child so poorly that <a href="/wiki/The_Great_Spirit" class="mw-redirect" title="The Great Spirit">the Great Spirit</a> responded by making the land hot and desolate and allowing enemies to conquer the giants. Only two giants survived: Paiute and his wife, both of whose skin became brown from eternally living in the hot desert.<sup id="cite_ref-Greene2005_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Greene2005-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Roman">Roman</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Giant&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Roman"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Several <a href="/wiki/Jupiter_Column" title="Jupiter Column">Jupiter-Giant-Columns</a> have been found in <a href="/wiki/Germania_Superior" title="Germania Superior">Germania Superior</a>. These were crowned with a statue of Jupiter, typically on horseback, defeating or trampling down a giant, often depicted as a snake. They are restricted to the area of south-western Germany, western Switzerland, French Jura, and Alsace. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_European">Other European</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Giant&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Other European"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Walter_Crane_King_Arthur_and_the_Giant_Book_I,_Canto_VIII.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Walter_Crane_King_Arthur_and_the_Giant_Book_I%2C_Canto_VIII.jpg/170px-Walter_Crane_King_Arthur_and_the_Giant_Book_I%2C_Canto_VIII.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="243" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Walter_Crane_King_Arthur_and_the_Giant_Book_I%2C_Canto_VIII.jpg/255px-Walter_Crane_King_Arthur_and_the_Giant_Book_I%2C_Canto_VIII.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Walter_Crane_King_Arthur_and_the_Giant_Book_I%2C_Canto_VIII.jpg/340px-Walter_Crane_King_Arthur_and_the_Giant_Book_I%2C_Canto_VIII.jpg 2x" data-file-width="455" data-file-height="650" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/King_Arthur" title="King Arthur">King Arthur</a> faces a giant in this engraving by <a href="/wiki/Walter_Crane" title="Walter Crane">Walter Crane</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Folklore" title="Folklore">folklore</a> from all over Europe, giants were believed to have built the remains of previous civilizations. The Danish historian <a href="/wiki/Saxo_Grammaticus" title="Saxo Grammaticus">Saxo Grammaticus</a> thought giants had a hand in the creation of <a href="/wiki/Megalith" title="Megalith">megalithic</a> monuments. Similarly, the <a href="/wiki/Old_English_poetry" class="mw-redirect" title="Old English poetry">Old English poem</a> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Seafarer_(poem)" title="The Seafarer (poem)">The Seafarer</a></i> speaks of the high stone walls that were the work of giants. Natural geologic features such as the massive <a href="/wiki/Basalt" title="Basalt">basalt</a> columns of the <a href="/wiki/Giant%27s_Causeway" title="Giant's Causeway">Giant's Causeway</a> on the coast of <a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland" title="Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a> were attributed to construction by giants. </p><p>In the Netherlands, giants are often associated with creating or forming the landscape. For instance, two giants are said to have dug a channel, until they reached the village of <a href="/wiki/Akkrum" title="Akkrum">Akkrum</a>, where they had an argument and each went his own way, thus splitting the channel into two separate waterways. Others threw up hills, or became hills themselves when they died on the spot. In several legends, giants were evil beings that threatened, robbed and killed travellers or locals; such as <a href="/wiki/Ellert_and_Brammert" title="Ellert and Brammert">Ellert and Brammert</a>, in the province of <a href="/wiki/Drenthe" title="Drenthe">Drenthe</a>. </p><p>Medieval <a href="/wiki/Chivalry_romance" class="mw-redirect" title="Chivalry romance">chivalry romances</a> such as the Spanish <i><a href="/wiki/Amad%C3%ADs_de_Gaula" title="Amadís de Gaula">Amadís de Gaula</a></i> feature giants as antagonists, or, rarely, as allies. This is parodied famously in Cervantes' <i><a href="/wiki/Don_Quixote" title="Don Quixote">Don Quixote</a></i>, when the title character attacks a windmill, believing it to be a giant. This is the source of the phrase <a href="/wiki/Tilting_at_windmills" class="mw-redirect" title="Tilting at windmills">tilting at windmills</a>. </p><p>Tales of combat with giants were a common feature in the folklore of the <a href="/wiki/British_Isles" title="British Isles">British Isles</a>. Celtic giants also figure in <a href="/wiki/Breton_literature" title="Breton literature">Breton</a> and <a href="/wiki/Matter_of_Britain" title="Matter of Britain">Arthurian</a> <a href="/wiki/Romance_(heroic_literature)" class="mw-redirect" title="Romance (heroic literature)">romances</a>. In <a href="/wiki/Kinloch_Rannoch" title="Kinloch Rannoch">Kinloch Rannoch</a>, a local myth has a local hill resembling a giant named as <i>The Sleeping Giant</i>. Folklore says the giant will awaken only if a specific musical instrument is played near the hill. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Giants_(Welse_folklore)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Giants (Welse folklore) (page does not exist)">Giants</a> are also prominent in <a href="/wiki/Welsh_folklore" title="Welsh folklore">Welsh folklore</a>. </p><p>Many giants in <a href="/wiki/English_folklore" title="English folklore">English folklore</a> were noted for their stupidity.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBriggs196763_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBriggs196763-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A giant who had quarrelled with the <a href="/wiki/Mayor_of_Shrewsbury" class="mw-redirect" title="Mayor of Shrewsbury">Mayor of Shrewsbury</a> went to bury the city with dirt; however, he met a shoemaker, carrying shoes to repair, and the shoemaker convinced the giant that he had worn out all the shoes coming from <a href="/wiki/Shrewsbury" title="Shrewsbury">Shrewsbury</a>, and so it was too far to travel.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBriggs196764_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBriggs196764-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other English stories told of how giants threw stones at each other, which was used to explain many great stones on the landscape.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBriggs196765_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBriggs196765-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Giants figure in folklore and fairy tales, such as <i><a href="/wiki/Jack_the_Giant_Killer" title="Jack the Giant Killer">Jack the Giant Killer</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Giant_Who_Had_No_Heart_in_His_Body" title="The Giant Who Had No Heart in His Body">The Giant Who Had No Heart in His Body</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Nix_Nought_Nothing" title="Nix Nought Nothing">Nix Nought Nothing</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Robin_Hood_and_the_Prince_of_Aragon" title="Robin Hood and the Prince of Aragon">Robin Hood and the Prince of Aragon</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Young_Ronald" title="Young Ronald">Young Ronald</a></i>, and <a href="/wiki/Paul_Bunyan" title="Paul Bunyan">Paul Bunyan</a>. <a href="/wiki/Ogre" title="Ogre">Ogres</a> are humanoid creatures, sometimes of gigantic stature, that occur in various sorts of European folklore. </p><p><a href="/wiki/R%C3%BCbezahl" title="Rübezahl">Rübezahl</a>, is a kind giant from <a href="/wiki/German_folklore" title="German folklore">German folklore</a> who lived in the <a href="/wiki/Giant_Mountains" title="Giant Mountains">Giant Mountains</a>, along with the <a href="/wiki/Bergm%C3%B6nch" title="Bergmönch">Bergmönch</a>, a giant mountain spirit.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Antero_Vipunen" title="Antero Vipunen">Antero Vipunen</a> is a giant shaman that appears in the <i><a href="/wiki/Kalevala" title="Kalevala">Kalevala</a></i>, meeting the epic hero <a href="/wiki/V%C3%A4in%C3%A4m%C3%B6inen" title="Väinämöinen">Väinämöinen</a> to teach him creation spells.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Names">Names</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Giant&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Names"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amorites" title="Amorites">Amorites</a> - <a href="/wiki/Hebrew_Bible" title="Hebrew Bible">Hebrew Bible</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anakim" title="Anakim">Anakim</a> - <a href="/wiki/Hebrew_Bible" title="Hebrew Bible">Hebrew Bible</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asura" title="Asura">Asura</a> - <a href="/wiki/Indian_religions" title="Indian religions">Indian religions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Behemoth" title="Behemoth">Behemoth</a> - Hebrew Folklore</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Druon_Antigoon" title="Druon Antigoon">Druon Antigoon</a> - <a href="/wiki/Folklore_of_the_Low_Countries" title="Folklore of the Low Countries">Dutch folklore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Br%C3%A2n_the_Blessed" title="Brân the Blessed">Brân the Blessed</a> - <a href="/wiki/Welsh_mythology" title="Welsh mythology">Welsh mythology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Giants_(Welsh_folklore)" title="Giants (Welsh folklore)">Cewri</a> - <a href="/wiki/Welsh_mythology" title="Welsh mythology">Welsh mythology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cormoran" title="Cormoran">Cormoran</a> - <a href="/wiki/Cornish_mythology" title="Cornish mythology">Cornish mythology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyclopes" title="Cyclopes">Cyclopes</a> - <a href="/wiki/Greek_mythology" title="Greek mythology">Greek mythology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daidarabotchi" title="Daidarabotchi">Daidarabotchi</a> - <a href="/wiki/Japanese_mythology" title="Japanese mythology">Japanese mythology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daitya" title="Daitya">Daitya</a> - <a href="/wiki/Hinduism" title="Hinduism">Hinduism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fomorians" title="Fomorians">Fomorians</a> - <a href="/wiki/Irish_mythology" title="Irish mythology">Irish mythology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Giants_(Greek_mythology)" title="Giants (Greek mythology)">Gigantes</a> - <a href="/wiki/Greek_mythology" title="Greek mythology">Greek mythology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gog_and_Magog" title="Gog and Magog">Gog</a> - <a href="/wiki/Hebrew_Bible" title="Hebrew Bible">Hebrew Bible</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gogmagog_(giant)" title="Gogmagog (giant)">Gogmagog</a> - <a href="/wiki/Matter_of_Britain" title="Matter of Britain">Matter of Britain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goliath" title="Goliath">Goliath</a> - <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Samuel" class="mw-redirect" title="Book of Samuel">Book of Samuel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Humbaba" title="Humbaba">Humbaba</a> - <a href="/wiki/Sumerian_religion" title="Sumerian religion">Sumerian religion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ispolin" title="Ispolin">Ispolin</a> - <a href="/wiki/Slavic_paganism" title="Slavic paganism">Slavic paganism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jentil" title="Jentil">Jentil</a> - <a href="/wiki/Basque_mythology" title="Basque mythology">Basque mythology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J%C3%B6tunn" title="Jötunn">Jötunn</a> - <a href="/wiki/Germanic_mythology" title="Germanic mythology">Germanic mythology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kalevipoeg" title="Kalevipoeg">Kalevipoeg</a> - <a href="/wiki/Estonian_mythology" title="Estonian mythology">Estonian mythology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Majitu" title="Majitu">Majitu</a> - <a href="/wiki/Swahili_people" title="Swahili people">Swahili people</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nephilim" title="Nephilim">Nephilim</a> - <a href="/wiki/Hebrew_Bible" title="Hebrew Bible">Hebrew Bible</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Og" title="Og">Og</a> - <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Numbers" title="Book of Numbers">Book of Numbers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ogre" title="Ogre">Ogre</a> - <a href="/wiki/European_folklore" title="European folklore">European folklore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Bunyan" title="Paul Bunyan">Paul Bunyan</a> - <a href="/wiki/Folklore_of_the_United_States" title="Folklore of the United States">American folklore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quinametzin" title="Quinametzin">Quinametzin</a> - <a href="/wiki/Aztec_mythology" title="Aztec mythology">Aztec mythology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rakshasa" title="Rakshasa">Rakshasa</a> - <a href="/wiki/Indian_religions" title="Indian religions">Indian religions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rephaite" title="Rephaite">Rephaite</a> - <a href="/wiki/Hebrew_Bible" title="Hebrew Bible">Hebrew Bible</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R%C3%BCbezahl" title="Rübezahl">Rübezahl</a> - <a href="/wiki/German_folklore" title="German folklore">German folklore</a>/<a href="/wiki/Czech_folklore" title="Czech folklore">Czech folklore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Si-Te-Cah" title="Si-Te-Cah">Si-Te-Cah</a> - <a href="/wiki/Mythologies_of_the_indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas" class="mw-redirect" title="Mythologies of the indigenous peoples of the Americas">Paiute mythology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stallo" title="Stallo">Stallo</a> - <a href="/wiki/S%C3%A1mi_shamanism" title="Sámi shamanism">Sámi shamanism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tepeg%C3%B6z" title="Tepegöz">Tepegöz</a> - <a href="/wiki/Turkic_mythology" title="Turkic mythology">Turkic mythology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Teutobochus" title="Teutobochus">Teutobochus</a> - <a href="/wiki/Germanic_mythology" title="Germanic mythology">Germanic mythology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Titans" title="Titans">Titans</a> - <a href="/wiki/Greek_mythology" title="Greek mythology">Greek mythology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toell_the_Great" title="Toell the Great">Toell the Great</a> - <a href="/wiki/Estonian_mythology" title="Estonian mythology">Estonian mythology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Troll" title="Troll">Trolls</a> - <a href="/wiki/Nordic_folklore" title="Nordic folklore">Nordic folklore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uria%C8%99" title="Uriaș">Uriaș</a> - <a href="/wiki/Folklore_of_Romania" title="Folklore of Romania">Romanian folklore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ysbaddaden" title="Ysbaddaden">Ysbaddaden</a> - <a href="/wiki/Welsh_mythology" title="Welsh mythology">Welsh mythology</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Giant&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Book_of_Giants" title="A Book of Giants">A Book of Giants</a></i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ruth_Manning-Sanders" title="Ruth Manning-Sanders">Ruth Manning-Sanders</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Giantess" title="Giantess">Giantess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Giants_(esotericism)" title="Giants (esotericism)">Giants (esotericism)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gigantism" title="Gigantism">Gigantism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Half-giant" title="Half-giant">Half-giant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_giants_in_mythology_and_folklore" title="List of giants in mythology and folklore">List of giants in mythology and folklore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Megafauna_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Megafauna (mythology)">Megafauna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Processional_giant" title="Processional giant">Processional giant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Processional_giants_and_dragons_in_Belgium_and_France" title="Processional giants and dragons in Belgium and France">Processional giants and dragons in Belgium and France</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Somali_mythology#Giants_and_demons" title="Somali mythology">Somali mythology</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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Hamburg 2014, p. 34.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-37">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.parkkinen.org/vipunen.html">"Väinämöinen ja Antero Vipunen"</a>. <i>parkkinen.org</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=parkkinen.org&rft.atitle=V%C3%A4in%C3%A4m%C3%B6inen+ja+Antero+Vipunen&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.parkkinen.org%2Fvipunen.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGiant" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sources">Sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Giant&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBriggs1967" class="citation book cs1">Briggs, Katharine Mary (1967). <i>The Fairies in English Tradition and Literature</i>. University of Chicago Press, London. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0415286018" title="Special:BookSources/0415286018"><bdi>0415286018</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Fairies+in+English+Tradition+and+Literature&rft.pub=University+of+Chicago+Press%2C+London&rft.date=1967&rft.isbn=0415286018&rft.aulast=Briggs&rft.aufirst=Katharine+Mary&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGiant" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Childress, David Hatcher (1992). <i>Lost Cities of North & Central America</i>. 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(2015), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=xI8HBgAAQBAJ"><i>Acarya Samantabhadra's Svayambhustotra: Adoration of The Twenty-four Tirthankara</i></a>, Vikalp Printers, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9788190363976" title="Special:BookSources/9788190363976"><bdi>9788190363976</bdi></a>, <q>Non-Copyright</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Acarya+Samantabhadra%27s+Svayambhustotra%3A+Adoration+of+The+Twenty-four+Tirthankara&rft.pub=Vikalp+Printers&rft.date=2015&rft.isbn=9788190363976&rft.aulast=Jain&rft.aufirst=Vijay+K.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DxI8HBgAAQBAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGiant" class="Z3988"></span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/SvayambhuWeb_201501">Alt URL</a></li> <li>Lyman, Robert R., Sr. (1971). <i>Forbidden Land: Strange Events in the Black Forest</i>. Vol. 1. Coudersport, PA: Potter Enterprise.* Dakhloul / Fakih debate, HHUMC (2013). <i>Are Giants Just a Hoax?</i>. Saida, Lebanon: Archive</li> <li>Schäfke, Werner (2015). ″Dwarves, Trolls, Ogres, and Giants″. In Albrecht Classen (Ed.): <i>Handbook of medieval culture. Fundamental aspects and conditions of the European middle ages</i>, vol. 1. 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