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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... Heavenly Ones now drove them on to further impiety and wickedness . There was one among the Giants who was more reverential toward the gods , and wiser than the others . He was the last remnant of the righteous in Syria . His name was ...
... Heavenly Ones now drove them on to further impiety and wickedness . There was one among the Giants who was more reverential toward the gods , and wiser than the others . He was the last remnant of the righteous in Syria . His name was ...
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... heavenly bodies , and they established divine honors for him . And for this reason only those two realms worship him and call him Heaven ; Sun ; Chaos ; Seed of the World ; Father of All Gods Great and Minor ; Soul of the World Moving ...
... heavenly bodies , and they established divine honors for him . And for this reason only those two realms worship him and call him Heaven ; Sun ; Chaos ; Seed of the World ; Father of All Gods Great and Minor ; Soul of the World Moving ...
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... Heavenly Ones . First of all men he discovered the vine and planted it , and taught how to make wine . And being unfamiliar with its power and made drunk by its fumes , he fell to earth in an unseemly posture . There was , as we said ...
... Heavenly Ones . First of all men he discovered the vine and planted it , and taught how to make wine . And being unfamiliar with its power and made drunk by its fumes , he fell to earth in an unseemly posture . There was , as we said ...
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Annius of Viterbo the Flood | 98 |
4 | 116 |
Rabelaiss Two Gigantologies | 185 |
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