Well, I guess that’s better than ‘turtles;.
(But I’m not sure that we even know what ‘turtles’ represented, in the minds that created the myth.)
Ha, ha!
I thought of that when I posted it.
I didn’t mean giants as in huge proportioned people, but mental giants.
All of our wonderful technology we have today is due to the hard work of those who came before us.
I guess some of the ancient thought of turtles because their hard shells are like bedrock, and since earthquakes can happen, maybe they thought the whole world was an enormous turtle that occasionally moved. And then when others asked what was under the turtle, all they could think of was another, bigger turtle. And THEN, some smart ass probably asked what was under THAT turtle, so they just ended the trolling by saying shaddap it’s turtles all the way down.