Given some of the shapes and facial features in their iconography, statues, and texts, I would definitely say there is an influence present. But how much, I cannot say.
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I would have to disagree. Giants are a common recurring theme. Be it Greek, Norse,celtic, even in the old testament.
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I think it has its merits. Can easily see where the cyclopean myths perhaps originated. I do enjoy fun theories/speculation like this.
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I believe it. I've always figured stories about dragons came from people finding dinosaur skeletons.
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Congrats on 30k you guys are amazing so there plenty more to come
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Can we use that same reasoning for norse mythology, Judaism, or hindu myths? Did all of those areas have dinosaur bones that were mistook for giant bones?
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Cyclops doesn't mean 'One Eye", that would be 'Uniops', Cyclops means 'Round Eye'. A cycle or circle meaning round, hence Round Eye or Cycl-ops.
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The Cyclops are the original Titans, alongside the Hecatonkairies, or 'Hundred Armers'. They were 'ugly' according to their father 'Uranus' or 'the Heavens' and were imprisoned in 'Tartarus' so Uranus did not have to look upon them. The Cyclops became metal smith's and made the weapons for the Olympians in their war of the Titanomachy, against the Titan Gods of their Father, Chronus, Lord of Time, who had been consuming his children of which Zeus escaped and freed his brothers and sisters and made war upon the older Titan Gods. Zeus freed the Cyclops from Tartarus and they made the weapons for the Olympians. The Cyclops knew metallurgy and how to mine for the precious metals to turn into tools and weapons forged for the Gods. The cyclops mirror the Dwarves and the Elves in Norse mythology as they also make the weapons for the Aesir and Vanar Gods. Smiths in actual historic contexts were often referred to as 'Dwarven' smiths, having the arcane magic of the old Gods, turning stone into metal and forged into weapons and tools. Prometheus stole 'Fire' from the 'Divine Forge' of the Cyclops to gift to Mankind. This also mirrors the story in the OT Bible of the 'Fallen Angels' who took human women as their wives and taught mankind how to mine the metals and forge them into weapons and tools. The secrets of metallurgy and smithcraft were passed onto humanity by the Older Gods, against the rule of the New Gods who did not want mankind to have such knowledge and wanted them to suffer in ignorance, to huddle in the darkness and fear the will of the Gods upon their shallow mortal lives.
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Not out of the realm of possibility. I can definitely understand how that could have become myth.
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This is what's called an ehuemeristic reasoning, as in, the belief that everything in myth must have a basis in reality of some kind. It sure is a fun theory, but it's a stretch in my opinion
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LIVING MYTHOLOGY
Salutations!
Mythology fun fact!
Some have theorised that myths of the giants come from humans finding the skulls of elephants - for example the swarf elephants on greek islands.
But others disagree - what do you think?
I think it's a fun theory!
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