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2010-12-22 -Short Attention Span Theater-

This might explain why Harry Reid was re-elected.
Whatever Harry is, he's no giant ...
The Paiutes, a Native-American tribe indigenous to parts of Nevada, Utah and Arizona, told early white settlers about their ancestors' battles with a ferocious race of white, red-haired giants....The Paiutes named the giants "Si-Te-Cah" that literally means
"Teamsters Union organizers?"
"tule-eaters." The tule is a fibrous water plant the giants wove into rafts to escape the Paiutes continuous attacks....According to the Paiutes, the red-haired giants stood as tall as 12-feet and were a vicious, unapproachable people that killed and ate captured Paiutes as food.
Yep, Teamsters all right.
The Paiutes told the early settlers that after many years of warfare, all the tribes in the area finally joined together to rid themselves of the giants. One day as they chased down the few remaining red-haired enemy, the fleeing giants took refuge in a cave. The tribal warriors demanded their enemy come out and fight, but the giants steadfastly refused to leave their sanctuary.

Frustrated at not defeating their enemy with honor, the tribal chiefs had warriors fill the entrance to the cavern with brush and then set it on fire in a bid to force the giants out of the cave. The few that did emerge were instantly slain with volleys of arrows. The giants that remained inside the cavern were asphyxiated. Later, an earthquake rocked the region and the cave entrance collapsed leaving only enough room for bats to enter it and make it their home.

Hundreds of years later archaeologists explored the cavern near Lovelock, Nevada--the cave the Indians had described. What the scientific researchers found was staggering: over 10,000 artifacts were unearthed including the mummified remains of two red-haired giants--one, a female 6.5-feet tall, the other male, over 8-feet tall....As the excavation of the cave progressed, the archaeologists came to the inescapable conclusion that the Paiutes myth was no myth; it was true. What led them to this realization was the discovery of many broken arrows that had been shot into the cave and a dark layer of burned material under sections of the overlaying guano....

Posted by Mike 2010-12-22 15:27|| || Front Page|| [11142 views ] Top

#1 Interesting but fable until references are given.

Posted by tipover 2010-12-22 16:54|| 2010-12-22 16:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Whatever Harry is, he's no giant ...

Oh I beg to differ, he is quite the giant -- Das größe Arschloch.

Posted by OldSpook 2010-12-22 17:05|| 2010-12-22 17:05|| Front Page Top

#3 HMMM, HMMM, yeah, I remember reading of this ancient Indian lore + others when I was a kid in the early + middle 1970's.

* Compare wid FREEREPUBLIC THIS AM > seems the ANCIENT AINN RACE OF JAPAN + MAINLAND ASIA MAY HAD BEEN THE FIRST TO DISCOVER NORTH AMERICA, NOT INDIANS = AMERINDIANS.

IOW, "WE'RE ALL JAPANESE NOW", which by extension also infers "WE'RE ALL CHAMORROS/GUAMANIANS/ASIANS, OCEANIANS + PACIFICANS, since anecdotal evidence exists to infic or infer that ancient Guam Chamorros were allegedly descended from JAPANESE [or OTHER ASIAN STOCK]???

Lest we fergit, IRRC NET > 2008 -2009? > CHINA + INDIA BOTH also claim to be the TRUE "MOTHER OF ASIA/HUMAN CIVILIZATION", NOT DEM WILY MESOPOTAMIANS + SUMERIANS???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-12-22 18:24|| 2010-12-22 18:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Oddly enough, the perfidy of the federal government does much to keep this story, true or false, alive.

With the discovery of the 8,400 year old Kennewick man skull, the Indian tribes of the Pacific northwest intensely lobbied to have it reinterred, as they were clearly not Indian or east Asian, but Caucasoid.

Not only did the federal government withhold the skeleton from outside investigation, but fought in the courts to have it reburied, and covered the site where it was found with many tons of gravel, to prevent any further discoveries.

This was such a crude and stupid effort, that it rang a bell, how the federal government had long inveigled against discoveries that suggested early Viking settlements in the US.

So, did Vikings make it to Paiute territory? From Greenland to Nevada is about 2,500 miles. And geneticists have proven that human genes from ancient Japan made it to an Indian tribe in New Mexico, which is close to 6,000 miles.

So it's possible.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-12-22 19:48|| 2010-12-22 19:48|| Front Page Top

#5 This might explain why Harry Reid was re-elected.

Since my cousin Bernie is the spokesman for the ancient-cannibalistic-giant community in Nevada, I'm fairly sure that they're going to disavow any responsibility for Reid.

(Although... can a hairy giant really be a cannibal from eating puny little bald humans?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-12-22 19:58|| 2010-12-22 19:58|| Front Page Top

From Greenland to Nevada is about 2,500 miles.

L'anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland -- the only confirmed Viking settlement in North America -- is a bit closer. And then there's the "Maine Penny", a silver Byzantine coin found in a shell midden in Maine, in a layer dating to around 1100AD.

Not that these had to be "Vikings" or even real. There are lots of legends of fantastic people who lived in a region before the most recent inhabitants: the Celtic fay legends, for example. There are similar legends in South America, as well.

And there have been finds other than Kennewick Man. Some of the pre-Clovis human bones have mitochondrial DNA that don't connect to any existing human population, and some of the tools discovered bear a resemblance to some early European tools.

Unfortunately, the US Congress turned native-American creation myths into federal law (so much for not making laws respecting a religion), and this whole realm of research has been closed off. Pre-Clovis finds are too old to be connected to any known tribes, but still have to be turned over to them for "reburial"; they're invariably destroyed or tainted.

There's no real reason to think there have only been two waves of immigration into the Americas, and there's good evidence for three or more.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2010-12-22 20:14|| 2010-12-22 20:14|| Front Page Top

#7 I wonder if Indians look different from East Asians because they interbred with the indigenous inhabitants of North America.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2010-12-22 21:57|| 2010-12-22 21:57|| Front Page Top

#8 Photo is of an Egyptian Pharoah - Ramses I

Posted by john frum 2010-12-22 21:58|| 2010-12-22 21:58|| Front Page Top

#9 Lovelock citizens has always been telling stories that the citizens of Fallon disbelieve. Go Churchill High School!

Posted by Frank G 2010-12-22 22:06|| 2010-12-22 22:06|| Front Page Top

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