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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shasarak" data-source="post: 7470285" data-attributes="member: 94143">So when the Greeks are telling stories about Zeus and the other Gods fighting the Titans were they just telling stories about literal Gods fighting literal Titans?  Or were they trying to describe Aliens who had taken some time off from making the Pyramids in Egypt to go and mess with the Greeks?  Or maybe they were talking about big humans fighting other big humans?  Or maybe they were just making up stories the same way that we make up stories now like the Flying Spaghetti Monster.If you were a tall Greek standing around 150cm and you were attacked by a freakish large person standing 180cm tall then you would probably call that person a Giant.  And when you got home your stories would most likely start to increase that size because if you were impressed with me fighting a guy 180cm tall then what about 200cm.  Yeah now we are talking.  Of course they are not a Giant though.  I think it would be a mistake to confuse fiction for a factual account.And afterall the one common thread that we can follow in all of the stories about Giants is that in none of them the Giant is defeated when it tries to stand up and breaks its ankle.  That lie is not support by neither the fiction nor the facts.</blockquote>