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The Giants are depicted in a variety of ways. Some Giants are fully human in form, while others are a combination of human and animal forms. Some are snake-legged, some have wings, one has bird claws, one is lion-headed, and another is bull-headed. Some Giants wear helmets, carry shields and fight with swords.
As per this Ranveer, Ali , Baggu and Jhanvi become the power holder of the four elemental powers (air,fire,water and earth respectively). To find her mother,Bela travels to Panchgiri. She gets to know that Tanu Shergill is her mother's twin sister. Tanu tries to damage Bela's hands by a car accident which fails.
The extant sources for Norse mythology, particularly the Prose and Poetic Eddas, contain many names of jötnar and gýgjar (often glossed as giants and giantesses respectively).
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
Balor of the Evil Eye – king of the Fomorians, a race of giants, and a cyclops (Irish) Catoblepas; Cockatrice; Gorgon – woman with hair made of living, venomous snakes, and eyes that turned men to stone (Greek): Medusa – once a human, Medusa and her sisters were cursed to be terrible monsters by Athena (Greek)
Elemental - a being of the alchemical works of Paracelsus; Erinyes; Fairies; Fenghuang; Fionnuala; Firebird - large bird with magically luminescent red- and yellow-hued feathers (sometimes used as a synonym of phoenix; see below) Fūjin; Gamayun; Gargoyle; Garuda; German
The element air also appears as a concept in the Buddhist philosophy which has an ancient history in China. Some Western modern occultists equate the Chinese classical element of metal with air, [16] others with wood due to the elemental association of wind and wood in the bagua. Enlil was the god of air in ancient Sumer.
The Giants fought Zeus and the other Olympian gods in the Gigantomachy, their epic battle for control of the cosmos. [5] A Giant named Enceladus, fighting Athena , is attested in art as early as an Attic black-figure pot dating from the second quarter of the sixth century BC (Louvre E732). [ 6 ]