Ooh, that sounds delicious! Could you post your recipe?
Right here, so I have a reason to come back to this thread.
Well there is Gigantopithecus blacki, now usually considered to be an orangutan-like ape living in East Asia as recently as 100,000 years ago. But since they couldn’t build spaceships, I’m sure they are not the hominids that Von Daniken was looking for.
If they couldn’t build spaceships, then where are they now, Mr. Smarty-Pants? Huh?
Since this thread apparently refuses to die, despite the absence of its OP, I’ll risk turning it into a serious discussion.
Currently at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, they are running an exhibit on mythical beasts. It was a pretty interesting show. Some of it was close to fluff, (the mermaid portion seemed a bit light), but there were a couple of displays that were pretty interesting. For example, one researcher tracked down where stories of cyclops appeared in Greek literature and then compared the locations where mammoth bones had been discovered and found a pretty remarkable overlap. While no anthropologist or paeleontologist would confuse them, today, there are a number of mammoth bones that resemble human femurs and ulnas and so forth and the mammoth skull does bear a vague resemblance to a “one-eyed” skull. As mammoths were rather smaller than current elephants, the bones were a bit closer in size to those of humans. (Still way too big, but that would be the point of being a giant, would it not?) There is no claim that the idea of giants originated with those bones, but it is remarkable that stories of a particular variety of giant shows up where bones tend to match the description of that type of giant. Similarly, the bones of Protoceratops are found in the regions where stories of griffins first appeared and the two “species” bear a remarkable resemblance.
You don’t need to be Freud to work it out that the idea of giants originates in the fact that we all begin life surrounded by them.
That reminds me - we need to go visit the local dinosaur museum again this summer (the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller).
So you’re deliberately ignoring everything else tom wrote, is that it?
I used to believe that when I was a kid. But where are those giants now?
Regards,
Shodan
The NBA?
Why are you being so kind? It’s the raving vomit of a flaming lunatic.
The late Zecharia Sitchin, specifically; but a shout-out is also owed here to old Immanuel Velikovsky, a figure enshrined for the ages in the Crank Hall of Fame.
BTW, it’s spelled Anunnaki (or the equivalent in cuneiform).