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The Book of Giants is an apocryphal book which expands upon the Genesis narrative of the Hebrew Bible, in a similar manner to the Book of Enoch.Together with this latter work, The Book of Giants "stands as an attempt to explain how it was that wickedness had become so widespread and muscular before the flood; in so doing, it also supplies the reason why God was more than justified in sending ...
Sarah Josepha Hale accompanied her The Genius of Oblivion with end notes that claim "the ancient inhabitants [buried in the mounds] were of a different race from the Indians." [ 9 ] Preachers taught a biblical basis for the primordial race, including connections to the lost tribes or the Nephilim , giants from the Book of Genesis.
The Brown-Driver-Briggs Lexicon (1908) gives the meaning of Nephilim as "giants", and warns that proposed etymologies of the word are "all very precarious". [13] Many suggested interpretations are based on the assumption that the word is a derivative of Hebrew verbal root n-p-l (נ־פ־ל) "fall".
Pages in category "Giants in the Hebrew Bible" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Amorites;
A Book of Giants; Brobdingnag, fictional land of giants from Jonathan Swift's, Gulliver's Travels; Ent; Gargantua and Pantagruel. Hurtaly, fictional giant from François Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel; The Selfish Giant, a short story by Oscar Wilde; Nix Nought Nothing; Veli Jože; Young Ronald
The Giant Enceladus was thought to lay buried under Mount Etna, the volcano's eruptions being the breath of Enceladus, and its tremors caused by the Giant rolling over from side to side beneath the mountain [159] (the monster Typhon [160] and the Hundred-Hander Briareus [161] were also said to be buried under Etna). The Giant Alcyoneus along ...
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According to reports of Northern Paiute oral history, the Si-Te-Cah, Saiduka or Sai'i [1] (sometimes erroneously referred to as Say-do-carah or Saiekare [2] after a term said to be used by the Si-Te-Cah to refer to another group) were a legendary tribe who the Northern Paiutes fought a war with and eventually wiped out or drove away from the area, with the final battle having taken place at ...