Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Red-Haired Giants

The stories are abundant regarding the giant people.  They range from red-haired giants in China, Europe, America, Polynesia and Africa.   There are stories that they were as tall as 12 feet with some even taller than that.  Many bones have been dug up that indicate a very large headed people with  tall statures existed not too long ago.   Some of these heads are conical (conehead) in shape.  I will include some embedded videos of giants with coneheads and their mummies below.


The Tarim mummies in China were found recently and are from a tall Europeon race of people that lived in the area.



The Tarim mummies are a series of mummies discovered in the Tarim Basin in present-day Xinjiang, China, which date from 1900 BC to 200 AD. Some of the mummies are frequently associated with the presence of the Indo-European Tocharian languages in the Tarim Basin,[although the evidence is not totally conclusive.
Research into the subject has attracted controversy, due to ethnic tensions in modern day Xinjiang. There have been concerns whether DNA results could affect claims by Uyghur peoples of being indigenous to the region. In comparing the DNA of the mummies to that of modern day Uyghur peoples, Victor H. Mair's team found some genetic similarities with the mummies, but no direct links, stating that "modern DNA and ancient DNA show that Uighurs, Kazaks, Kyrgyzs, the peoples of Central Asia are all mixed Caucasian and East Asian... the modern and ancient DNA tell the same story." He concludes that the mummies are basically Caucasoid, likely speakers of an Indo-European language; that East Asian peoples "began showing up in the eastern portions of the Tarim Basin about 3,000 years ago... while the Uighur peoples arrived after the collapse of the Orkon Uighur Kingdom, largely based in modern day Mongolia, around the year 842."



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarim_mummies








The Pharaohs of Egypt were shown as very tall with conical heads as compared to the average human.





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Aten_disk.jpg


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhenaten








The tale of Finn McCool from Ireland tells the story of two giants who fought each other with one out-smarting the other.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fionn_mac_Cumhaill




One more intersting thing is that the Hawaiians considered the goddess Pele to be a tall white woman with red hair, who was killed by a jealous sister and was burried on an island off of Mauii.


In one version of the story, Pele is daughter of Kanehoalani and Haumea in the mystical land of Kuaihelani, a floating free land like Fata Morgana. Kuaihelani was in the region of Kahiki (Kukulu o Kahiki). She stays so close to her mother's fireplace with the fire-keeper Lono-makua. Her older sister Nā-maka-o-Kahaʻi, a sea goddess, fears that Pele's ambition would smother the home-land and drives Pele away. Kamohoali'i drives Pele south in a canoe called Honua-i-a-kea with her younger sister Hiʻiaka and with her brothers Ka-moho-aliʻi, Kane-milo-hai, Kane-apua, and arrives at the islets above Hawaii. There Kane-milo-hai is left on Mokupapapa, just a reef, to build it up in fitness for human residence. On Nihoa, 800 feet above the ocean she leaves Kane-apua after her visit to Lehua and crowning a wreath of kau-no'a. Pele feels sorry for her younger brother and picks him up again. Pele used the divining rod, Pa‘oa to pick her a new home. A group of chants tells of a pursuit by Namakaokaha'i and Pele is torn apart. Her bones, KaiwioPele form a hill on Kahikinui, while her spirit escaped to the island of Hawaiʻi.[2]:157 (Pele & Hi'iaka A myth from HAwaii by Nathaniel B. Emerson)



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pele_(deity)


As with the Little People, the giant red-haired people have been all over the Earth and probably exist in one form or another, today.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_hair



By Rita Jean Moran (www.thelibrarykids.com)

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