Giant - Giant

Japanese: 巨人 - きょじん
Giant - Giant
Beings with gigantic bodies and superhuman abilities, about whom legends remain all over the world. There are the following types: (1) The first giants, from whose bodies the mountains, rivers, plants and trees of the world sprang (Pan Gu in Chinese mythology, Ymir in Norse mythology). (2) Giants who opposed the gods (Gigantes and Titans in Greek mythology). (3) Exaggerations of real peoples (Patagonia). (4) Giants with strange forms (Cyclops, the one-eyed giant in Greek mythology). (5) Giants imagined from natural phenomena around them or the bones of ancient creatures (Daidarabocchi and Oohito Yagoro in Japan, Kupe, the hero of New Zealand who created Cook Strait, Gog and Magog, giants of the Old Testament imagined from the gigantic bones and teeth excavated in Plymouth, etc.).
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Japanese:
巨大な身体と超人的能力をもつ存在で,世界中に伝説が残る。以下のような類型がある。(1)その肉体から世界の山川草木が生じた太初の巨人(中国神話の盤古,北欧神話のイミル)。(2)神族と対抗する巨人(ギリシア神話のギガンテス,ティタン)。(3)実在の民族を誇張したもの(パタゴニア人)。(4)異形の巨人(ギリシア神話の一つ目巨人キュクロプス)。(5)四囲の自然現象,古代生物の骨などから想像された巨人(日本のだいだらぼっち,大人(おおひと)弥五郎,クック海峡を作ったニュージーランドの英雄クーペ,プリマスで発掘された巨大な骨や歯から想像された旧約聖書の巨人ゴグ,マゴグなど)。
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