Giants

An Introduction The Legend of a Lost World

The histories of our world’s most ancient civilizations all tell of a time that came before. A glittering world of high culture and power. Sumeria, Akkad of the Land Between the Rivers, Minoan Crete, and Egypt all have accounts of a terrible cataclysm, which only a few brave souls survived.

The Greeks speak about Lost Atlantis. Others tell of Lemuria, Mu, and Thule, all destroyed. The Old Testament calls this terrible disaster Noah’s Flood, while the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh speaks of a frightening deluge that destroyed the world.

The accounts agree on several other interesting elements. The Lost World contained wonders, paradises, or Eden: a lush garden planet that strangely held fearsome creatures, huge monsters, and giants. In that world, the gods, or godly beings, freely walked among men and women. And the gods often took the most beautiful as their wives, or as prizes of divine lust.

Heroes arose from those unions. And the seeds of the coming cataclysm were born from it. The greatest storytellers of the ancient world, the Greeks, speak about a war between the Gods and Titans. The Hebrew prophets write that Nephilim walked the Earth, the offspring of the bene elohim (fallen angels) and mortal women.

In this Antediluvian Age lived the prehistoric beasts. Hercules, in his Twelve Labors, slew some of the worst. The ancient Book of Job describes two monsters called Behemoth and Leviathan, which no man dared approach. The Cretans had their Minotaur, while the Sumerians tell of an odd satyr-creature called Engidu, who possessed ‘the strength of a boar, the mane of a lion, and the speed of a bird.’

Fallen angels, gods, giants, and heroes lived among the prehistoric sabertooths, mammoths, and great sloths. It was a time of vast adventure and harrowing deeds. Forgotten legends of that distant era, many millennia removed from ours, speak about a particular daring attempt of the giants. They sought hidden weapons they believed would grant them supremacy on Earth.

But not all beings in this Lost World were so mighty or so strange. Men and women struggled then as they do now. They had warriors, prophets, healers, and mothers. And they knew—or the wisest did—that challenging immortal powers and delving too deeply into forbidden arts could unleash cataclysmic forces. These men and women pitted themselves against legendry heroes, giants, and godlike beings in order to save their world from disaster.

This is their story.