Giants Quotes From Texts

(Texts: All Artifacts, Color Coding, & Writings in Bold Type With Italics Inside Parenthesis, are Added by Editor R. Brown, not the Authors, Translators, or Publishers!)

(gods in bluemixed-breed demigods in teal...)

 

         “He (Gilgamesh) was two-thirds god, one third man,

       The form of his body no one can match

         Eleven cubits high he is, nine spans his chest”

        (1 cubit is length of elbow to middle finger tip, = 17-21″):

                . (17″ X 11 cubits = 187″ / 12 = 15 1/2 feet tall); (21″ X 11 cubits = 231″ / 12 = 19 1/4 feet tall)

        (1 span is length of thumb-tip to little finger-tip when fully expanded, = 9″):

                . (9″ X 9 spans = 81″ / 12 = 6 3/4 feet wide)

(15 1/2 feet to 19 1/4 feet tall); (6 3/4 feet wide his chest)

        (a giant semi-divine mixed-breed, who is bigger, stronger, faster, smarter, & lived much longer)