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reply posted on 26-7-2003 @ 06:47 PM by mikromarius
Yes, welcome Kingsworld. It's great to see new members to this site. Greetings, stranger!

As mr. Freeze is touching into there are stories of Giants in other cultures, and I do believe that what he's talking about are the Nephilims, whom the bible speeks of in Genesis 6. And In the Book of Enoch (some say this is the oldest book of all the books the Jews keep, and it was alledgely Enoch who received the Hebrew alfabet).

Well the story goes as follows: Once uppon a time when man had been cast out of Paradise because they disobeyed God's command, there were a special type of angels watching us from above. These angels were the Watchers, and their job was to watch over the humans after God no longer could walk on the Earth since the Humans had now demanded to be their own gods by eating the from the Tree of wisdom which was one of two trees standing in the midst of Paradise or Eden as we also call it, and God denied Man and Woman to eat from the Tree of Wisdom, for if they did, they would die, but the serpent managed to trick Woman to eat from the tree, and she also gave Man some. And the result was that Man and Woman became like gods and understood the difference between good and evil, and their eyes were opened, so they could see like God sees.

Well, years came and years went, until suddenly some of these Watcher angels fell in love with some of the beautiful daughters among the humans. Well, God had prohibited the angels to mix with mankind, just like he had denied Man and Woman to eat from the Tree of Wisdom, but the Watchers summoned themselves and made a pact. And they stepped down from Heaven and married the ones they loved the most. The result of these marriages, was that the women gave birth to giants, known to the Jews as the Nephilims. And these giants became a curse for Mankind. They were brutal and increddibly strong, and they more or less took over the whole Earth. Evil grew on Earth as the fallen Watchers started to teach Mankind all kinds of stuff to help them against the Nephilims. They taught them to extract metal from the Earth and taught them how to make weapons. They also told them astrology, astronomy, how to make cosmetics, how to curse and how to free people from such curses and many other things. And this lead to many wars. There was great trouble on Earth because of what these Watchers had done. So one day, Noah's great grandfather called for God and plead before him about the horror that spread on Earth. When God heared about this, what the Watchers had done and what consequences had come because of this, he judged the Watchers to be chained and cast down into caves under the earth to stay there 70 generations to end. God then went to Enoch's great grandson, the ever famous Noah, and showed him how to build a ship that should be an Ark of redemption for Mankind and all the other lifeforms on Earth and the good wisdom. When Noah had finished his ship and gathered all the animals and his family and closed the door of the Ark, it started raining, and never since has there been such downfall of water on the face of the Earth, and never again will there be such horrible rain. It rained from above and the springs from the deep gave also away their water, and after fourty days and fourty nights it stopped raining, but then all the Earth was flooded. After some time the water sank and the Ark stranded on a mountain, where it is still today, high up in the Ararat mountains. According to the story, all the giants were killed in this flood, but some other humans except Noah and his family survived. They had made boats for themselves, or God had showed them safe places to stay or had taken them up to Heaven to God himself.

I hope this answered some of your questions. To read more about these events, look the story up in Genesis 6 which you can find on
bible.crosswalk.com... and the Book of Enoch (pretty dark stuff if you ask me, but it's a good read if you are interrested such things) you can find if you click on the link below and read from chapter six and a couple of chapters further:

wesley.nnu.edu...

Blessings,
Mikromarius



reply posted on 26-7-2003 @ 07:07 PM by kingsworld
Hi Mikromarius & MrFreeze

here the link
www.geocities.com...
The French colonialists were the first westerners to get exposed to Angkor. They heard rumors from the local population about "temples built by gods or by giants." Most of the colonialists referred these rumors to folk tales,


...and about the god killing them Gaints, I got that from this old khmer lady who live on my street. She tell me that Gaints did exsit in Cambodia back in ancient time and that they ate Human and the gods kill them all.

But here a fact: The average ancient khmers race was tall as 7 feet.
Modern Khmer race height are 5 feet tall



[Edited on 27-7-2003 by kingsworld]


reply posted on 26-7-2003 @ 08:10 PM by mikromarius
I did a quick search for this on google and found some interresting matches. It seems the Kmer told stories of a great city that was built by gods and giants to the French colonicers. And I also found something more:

www.gocambodia.com...

"The artistry is far less refined than that seen in the reliefs at Angkor Wat, but the depiction of historical events and cameos of daily life is more lively and more vital than Angkor Wat's somewhat static and formal renderings of classical legend. The Bayon stands at the centre of Angkor Thom (literally "Great City"), which forms the core of the ancient site as it survives today.  This inner city, as it were, is surrounded by a moat and approached at the four cardinal points via massive stone gates and causeways flanked by statues of gods and giants.  Encompassed within this central area are a number of notable monuments in addition to the Bayon. These include the Baphuon, a pyramidal representation of Mount Meru constructed in the eleventh century at what was then Angkor's centre - a fact which may account for the building's look of extraordinary self-assurance."

An other site with brief but good information is this, which describes the Angkor complex as the 8th wonder of the world:
www.globetrekkertv.co.uk...

And on www.spiritualjourneys.net... it says:

"When French naturalist Henri Mouhot "rediscovered" Angkor, in the mid-nineteenth century, he considered the ruins of the ancient Khmer capital to be "Grander than anything left by Greece or Rome". "

Perhaps we now know more about why the God of Israel prohibited his people from making art of the divine. Since it would always be compared to other art and even disapear beside the rest and the essence of the message would deteriorate? Just a thought....

Blessings,
Mikromarius
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