Chapter Seventy-Five: The Giants (2)

I remember when I was in middle school, I read "Gulliver's Travels". At that time, I was fascinated by the magical encounter of the protagonist. I also fantasized that I could experience such a giant country and a small country once.

I even wonder what it would be like to let the giants attack Lilliputia. And what about the ending? With this strange idea, I often thought when I was on the boat that it would be nice if the boat capsized.

For a while, I was even obsessed with the legends of Lilliputian and Giant. During that time, I would look up all the legends about it.

In ancient Greek mythology, there is a legend about the "Titans" giant family: the so-called "Titans" are the giant gods of Kronos, the god of the Tais. Later, Kronos betrayed the gods of Olympus, and the Titans were thrown into hell by the gods of Olympus.

Fearing the wrath of Zeus, the Almighty God, they soon hid in the frontiers far from the populated world.

Legends about giants are not only found in Greek mythology, but also in Inca legends and stories from many other countries.

For example, in Herodotus' History of Persian Warfare in 400 B.C., it is also recorded that they found intact human skeletons about 2.5 meters in length.

In addition, in the writings of ancient Roman historians and early Christian saints, the existence of the giants is affirmed.

Giants are not only mentioned in myths and legends. Even in the real world, there are records related to this:

A Brazilian scientist named Vittorio discovered six groups of giants with an average height of 2.5 meters while exploring in the primeval forests of the Guiana highlands near Mount Roraima.

Vittorio had intended to approach them, but they were not friendly when they threw stones at him. Forced. Vittorio gave up his attempts to approach them and fled alone.

The bones of Homo erectus and great ape-man have been found in Java, eastern and southern Africa, Mongolia, southern China, and India.

Dr. Yakimov, an anthropologist in the former Soviet Union, estimated that the bones weighed more than 500 kilograms based on their size. The height is basically not less than 3 meters.

Around the seventies of the last century, Indian biologists discovered bones that resembled human bones about 116 kilometers from New Delhi! According to measurements, its length is as long as 4 meters, and its ribs alone are as long as one meter.

Scientific identification has confirmed that this is a 1 million-year-old great ape skeleton.

Coincidentally, at the end of the 19th century, a scholar who was exploring the Malay Peninsula heard that there were giants in the hinterland of the peninsula. So he went to investigate alone.

As a result, although he was unable to see the giants, he found the clubs used by the giants. Just a stick alone is too many adults to pick it up.

In 1511 AD, a huge man was sent to Maximilian I of the Holy Roman Empire. It is said that this man was able to eat a calf and a sheep in just one meal.

In 1576 AD, a man born in Provence in the south of France reached a height of 3 meters. Someone became interested in the issue of his height and interviewed him on the spot. I found a lot of things that were different from ordinary people.

In the 18th century, there was a man named Ann. Priest of Leon. A number of complex formulas were used to calculate the length of characters who appeared in the Bible.

Calculations show that the so-called human ancestor Adam in the Old Testament was 40 meters tall and Eve was 35 meters tall! Noah in Noah's Ark is 31 meters tall. Moses, on the other hand, was much shorter, only 3 meters.

So it seems, the giants of the modern age. In ancient times, they could only be counted as people of Lilliputian.

Many years ago, in California, USA, it was rumored that on this land, a group of huge and uneven giants lived.

Many Indians, native-born whites, or Eudo-Indian mestizos generally believe that this was the first inhabitant of New Spain.

Similarly, in the Americas. News about giants appears from time to time:

At the end of the 70s of the 20th century, a group of explorers and Indian guides saw some red-haired humpback giants running around in the Amazon region of Peru.

At the end of 1986, a Mexican media reported that a complete giant skull was found in eastern Mexico City that year, as well as fragments of stones used by the giant.

The skull alone was 50 centimeters tall and 25 centimeters wide, and the canine teeth were 2.5 times larger than modern people, estimated to be between 3.5 and 5 meters tall.

In the fifties of the twentieth century, many huge fossilized bones were also found in the valleys of Turkey.

Investigations have confirmed that these bones are very similar to human bones, but in surprisingly large proportions. Among them, there is a fossilized thigh bone, up to 120 centimeters long!

According to this ratio, this "man" is at least 5 meters tall, and it is not an exaggeration to call him a giant.

At the end of the 19th century, a scholar went on an expedition to the Malay Peninsula. He found the wooden sticks they had used in the haunts of the Giants in the heart of the peninsula, and several people could not pick up a single stick.

In 1912, ranch workers went to a desolate cave in Nevada to dig bat dung as fertilizer, and when they dug to 3 meters ~ 4 meters, they found strange crafts. They found duck-shaped bait in baskets and fishing and hunting tools in a nearby dry lake.

Later, to their surprise, they found the mummy of the red-haired giant. These giants are about 2 meters tall, and most of them resemble Egyptian mummies, with long red hair that reaches to the shoulders.

What's even more amazing is that in recent years, American and Peruvian archaeologists have jointly announced one of the most important discoveries in the history of Mayan archaeology - they have discovered three ancient tombs filled with mysterious artifacts inside a giant pyramid on the northern coast of Peru.

To the shock of the archaeological team, they found the skeletons of three "giants" in three ancient tombs. They are called "giants" because the skeletons are all over 2.8 meters long, compared to the average local male's height of 1.49 meters. This is a sensational discovery, and it also brings important historical materials and basis for the scientific and archaeological circles to study the Mayan civilization and the giants.

Many anthropologists believe that the giant race includes Homo erectus and great ape, but both are extinct. However, some experts believe that it is possible that in some corner of the earth, the giants continue to live.

I wonder if these speculations or judgments are directly related to the snow monster in front of us? However, judging from the size of these snow monsters in front of them, they have something to do with the giant clan. They are giants living on the top of the snowy region, to say the least.

Some experts believe that there are two reasons why giants may be created. One is because of the genes, they are normal, but the genes make them grow taller; The other is dysfunction, the most common being acromegaly.

This disease is caused by too much growth hormone, which not only makes people grow too tall, but also causes problems with bones and internal organs.

Scientist Dr. Marvin Antiman believes that if our genes were derived from the first humans, it would not be surprising that there would be giants among us, because the first humans may have the recessive genes that caused giants.

The ancient environment was conducive to the growth of living things, and as a result, the size of plants and animals was relatively large. And these features are very consistent with the fossil and geological record.

Fossils reveal that some species, such as dinosaurs, were many times larger than today's animals. Moreover, fossil evidence also shows that California redwoods were much taller in ancient times than they are today.

Many scientists believe that the best genetic phenom refers to the best side of biological epitaxes because they are in a favorable atmospheric environment. When the atmosphere is better, organisms live longer and grow higher.

Modern creatures that are 3 meters long are generally 5 or 6 meters long in ancient times. The same is true for insects, such as today's dragonflies, which have a wingspan of 10 centimeters, and ancient dragonflies in the fossil record have a wingspan of up to 1.5 meters.

As for the reason for the extinction, some scholars believe that because the giant's skull and brain could not keep up with the growth of the body, evolution stopped, and then disappeared from the earth.

From the above in recent years, so many giant creatures have been discovered, including plants, insects, herbivores, carnivores, etc., and so on, it is already possible to outline a blueprint for the biosphere of giant creatures.

Because in order to sustain the survival of megafauna, it is first necessary to feed them. Well, you also need to have giant plants. And for the giant plants to be fully developed, giant insects are also needed to help spread the seeds. It is difficult for a single megafauna to sustain life, and the entire ecosystem must be gigantic.

So, is there any definite archaeological evidence of giant humans?

In the 1950s, in the southeastern region of Turkey, the remains of the graves of many giants were discovered. Among them, two excavation sites each found a 1.2-meter-long thigh bone fossil. The anatomical features and proportions of this fossil are consistent with that of a human thigh bone.

And a resident of California, USA, claimed that he had witnessed the excavation of a giant thigh bone.

It is speculated that the owner of this thigh bone should be about 4.2~4.8 meters tall and 1.8 meters wide.

In Texas, USA, huge human footprints have also been found. The largest is 65 centimeters long and is estimated to be 4.8 meters tall.

In addition, in 1912, a desolate cave in Loverac, Nevada, USA, excavated a red-haired giant fossil about two meters high, resembling an Egyptian mummy. The nearby Paiute Indians knew their existence zĂ i.

If the prehistoric giants really existed, perhaps it would be much easier for scientists to explain the many archaeological evidences!

For example, if there was once a 5-meter-tall giant tribe, then the mystery of the construction of the pyramids in Egypt is not difficult to solve. Because giants obviously had much less difficulty building than modern humans.

In the same way, the mystery of the construction of the giant paintings of the Nazca region of South America, the giant human head of Easter Island, the megalithic circle of England, etc., will not be so puzzling.

In Chinese mainland, there are similar reports of large human bones being excavated. (To be continued......)