Giants in Those Days: Folklore, Ancient History, and Nationalism"'Traditional' (i.e. medieval) gigantology, both scholarly and - to the extent that it existed - popular, was rooted in biblical and classical texts, and portrayed giants as depraved, evil, and godless: very different from what we see in Rabelais. Dante developed them as denizens of Hell. Giants were primarily antediluvian, and were generally understood as a race distinct from (or debased from) humanity. Key biblical giants included the nephilim (offspring of the 'sons of God and daughters of men' in Genesis 6) and the anakim (indigenous opposition to the settlement of Canaan in Numbers and Deuteronomy). |
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... gods , Giants are benefactors only when duped or defeated ; when they interact with gods , they usually do so as the gods ' sworn enemies . Mediterranean and North- ern European cultures all seem to have recognized this ontological ...
... gods , Giants are benefactors only when duped or defeated ; when they interact with gods , they usually do so as the gods ' sworn enemies . Mediterranean and North- ern European cultures all seem to have recognized this ontological ...
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... God or seek anything from Him , because they had no need of anyone but him [ Nimrod ] , and that they should pray to him [ Nimrod ] , because he would be able to do whatever they needed . Some of Nimrod's kin warned him that God would ...
... God or seek anything from Him , because they had no need of anyone but him [ Nimrod ] , and that they should pray to him [ Nimrod ] , because he would be able to do whatever they needed . Some of Nimrod's kin warned him that God would ...
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... God seeing the daughters of men , that they were fair , took to themselves wives , of all which they chose . And God said : " My spirit shall not remain in man for ever , because he is flesh : and his days shall be a hundred and twenty ...
... God seeing the daughters of men , that they were fair , took to themselves wives , of all which they chose . And God said : " My spirit shall not remain in man for ever , because he is flesh : and his days shall be a hundred and twenty ...
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Annius of Viterbo the Flood | 98 |
4 | 116 |
Rabelaiss Two Gigantologies | 185 |
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