Dictionary of all Scriptures & Myths

GIANTS, NEPHILIM, MIGHTY MEN

Symbols of early mankind in great ape-like forms resident on continents now mostly submerged.

"There were giants in the earth in those days. . . . And mighty men which were of old.” - GENESIS. vi. 4.

The pre-human forms in which mind began to dawn were rude and gigantic. In these early vehicles of human life the individuality is as yet only nascent.

See Also

GADERINE DEMONIACS
NEPHILIM