07-12-2021, 01:07 AM
(07-11-2021, 11:24 AM)WonderCow Wrote: Of course there were giants. Mere humans didn't lay those huge foundation slabs at places like Baalbek.
I've always wondered about the ancient tales of giants, ogres, trolls, dwarves, elves, gnomes and other fae folk. I think they are dim racial memories of other hominids we once shared the planet with.
I think you may be right. Ogres, trolls, and dwarves especially remind me of Neanderthals. I also think that the oldest "venus figurines" (the figurine from Hohle Fels, for example) have all the hallmarks of being representations of Neanderthals, rather than anatomically modern human women.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’