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RE: ADSactly Folkore: When giants roamed the earth (Part 1)
I love mythology themes. This publication is super special because you write a little known but very striking mythology: the Nordic. I have often asked myself the same question you pose at the beginning. How can there be so many similarities in such distant and different cultures? Did the giants really exist? Are they always the giant evil beings? I hope in future readings to find beings of great size and with great nobility, who were misunderstood and therefore violent. A question @ladyrebecca: if we believe that the giants at some point populated the earth, why did they become extinct? What does literature and folklore tell you? Greetings and thanks for the article @ladyrebecca and @adsactly
Good question. I don't know the answer, but I will try to have a look at the different theories out there, those that seems valid, because it's a domain where it's very easy to fall into all kind of speculation.
As for the giants' character, their representation as gentle is a modern, more literary one... but if at some point 'normal' humans coexisted with giants it's easy to understand how they got a bad reputation, we're always afraid of people that are different.