The red-headed league.
Posted on 12/22/2010 1:49:27 PM PST by Fractal Trader
(CHICAGO ) - The Paiutes, a Native-American tribe indigenous to parts of Nevada, Utah and Arizona, told early white settlers about their ancestors' battles with a ferocious race of white, red-haired giants. According to the Paiutes, the giants were already living in the area.
Roaming, man-eating giants
The Paiutes named the giants Si-Te-Cah that literally means “tule-eaters.” The tule is a fibrous water plant the giants wove into rafts to escape the Paiutes continuous attacks.
They used the rafts to navigate across what remained of Lake Lahontan.
Giants roamed the Earth
According to the Paiutes, the red-haired giants stood as tall as 12-feet and were a vicious, unapproachable people that killed and ate captured Paiutes as food.
The legend
The Paiutes told the early settlers that after many years of warfare, all the tribes in the area finally joined together to rid themselves of the giants.
One day as they chased down the few remaining red-haired enemy, the fleeing giants took refuge in a cave. The tribal warriors demanded their enemy come out and fight, but the giants steadfastly refused to leave their sanctuary.
Frustrated at not defeating their enemy with honor, the tribal chiefs had warriors fill the entrance to the cavern with brush and then set it on fire in a bid to force the giants out of the cave.
The few that did emerge were instantly slain with volleys of arrows. The giants that remained inside the cavern were asphyxiated.
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Hundreds of years later archaeologists explored the cavern near Lovelock, Nevada--the cave the Indians had described.
What the scientific researchers found was staggering: over 10,000 artifacts were unearthed including the mummified remains of two red-haired giants—one, a female 6.5-feet tall, the other male, over 8-feet tall.
(Excerpt) Read more at salem-news.com ...
Man Eating Giants discovered
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Well, now that DADT has been lifted, there will be a lot more stories along this line.
NAACP, Jesse Jackson and the president think there should be, obivious the good Rev. and NAACP and the president don’t read the bible...
Vikings in Nevada??? I thought they lived in Minnesota.
Titian titan alert.
They’re tall. They’re titian. And they’ll eat your tule.
8’ not impressive? Have you ever been in the presence of a person over 7’ tall? Do you know how many of the 6 billion earthlings are 8’ tall?
Some years they play crappy football....probably depends on who they are eating...
LOL!
Merry Christmas, goat granny!!
interesting!
Outside of basketball locker rooms, where? I'm only 6-1 and either look over the average room of people, or am a little taller than most.
Interesting, though, that there are references to Giants in the Bible, too.
The Kensington Runestone? ('Have gone South West looking for good people to have over for dinner'...)
The red-headed league.
“Have you ever been in the presence of a person over 7’ tall?”
I met an inbred mountain man hillbilly once way back up in the hills who was 7’ tall. His hands were as big as a catcher’s mitt. It’s not something you easily forget and with his inbred facial features i’ve tried very hard.
Maybe I’m not fully awake yet, but I’m not getting your connection between the two.
That does sound unsettling.
Hmmmm....could be. Lots of rocks in Nevada. I’m not Scandinavian but I LOVE herring. Does that qualify as “good people”??
Merry Christmas, Smokin’ Joe!!!!
“Have you ever been in the presence of a person over 7’ tall?”
Like I say, it’s impressive in a personal, kind of intimidatory way, but scientifically, looking at the raw numbers, it’s not very different to some perfectly normal heights we see today.
400 years ago it would have been a different story.
“PHee Phi Pho Phum, I smell the blood of an Injun!”
I wonder if they had a goose that laid golden eggs.
No one knows what color was the hair of the Jomon. The Jomon may have split off a branch that produced them and the Europeans. I don't know
This (see link below)is the oldest human hair I know about. It's probably Ainu like Kennewick Man.
Early (Ancient) Hair Sample Raises Questions
"We came out with a dirt clod and inside the dirt clod was a human hair 14 inches long," she said. "It was so old there was no pigment."
"While scientists have yet to determine its age, the layer of soil it was in dates back 11,000 to 12,000 years."
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