Giants
Are giants always portrayed evil?
4.6 (24)
52 mins
Examine how giants are portrayed in different cultures and traditions, from Native America to the Norse Mythology. Also explore how their stories reveal the values, environment, and worldview of the people who created and shared them.
Ep 1:
Giants Who Shaped the Earth
From Ireland's Giant's Causeway to biblical Nephilim, explore how ancient cultures used towering beings to explain mountains, mysteries, and the Promised Land's conquest.
Ep 2:
Divine War of Gods and Giants
Ancient art may hint at literal giants, while Greek myth unleashes the Gigantomachy—a cosmic war between Olympian gods and earth-born monsters that reshaped geography itself.
Ep 3:
American Giants: Legends and Lost Bones
From Native American flood legends to buried twelve-foot skeletons and cryptozoology's mysterious 'True Giants,' the American frontier hides colossal secrets waiting to be uncovered.
Ep 4:
Norse Giants: Love, Trickery, War
Norse mythology reveals giants as more than monsters—lovers, tricksters, and warriors entangled with gods through cursed courtships and Thor's deadly showdown with Geirröðr.
Ep 5:
Winter's Giants and Eternal Cycles
Celtic myth's terrifying Balor and Yspaddaden embody winter's darkness, while our finale reveals how humanity itself has become the giants of a new mythic age.
Discussions (15)
Natalie
Level 9 · 10 mo agoThe thought of 20 foot giants is a nightmare for a short lady like me. I already have to climb the counters just to reach the good wine glasses.
Graham
Level 5 · 10 mo agoGiants fighting Gods is basically a Royal Rumble
Owen
Level 8 · 10 mo agoDismissing giants as metaphors or old bones is lazy. You ignore the global consistency of a physical threat our ancestors had to fight. Stop sanitizing history to fit your safe little worldview.
