The Giants of Mythology and their Historical Counterparts

Obviously if you’ve spent any small amount of time clicking around the links on this site you will have no doubt noticed one of my favorite areas of research is comparative mythology and the ubiquitous appearance of ‘giants’ in historical and mythological accounts of almost every civilisation on the planet. For me, I distinctly remember reading Geoffrey of Monmouth and being intrigued and amused by the story of Brutus of Troy and his battle with Gogmagog. Then one night sat smoking and eating shitty vegetarian bacon, watching the stars in the amazing surroundings of Dinas Bran, a friend read a few tales from the Mabinogion and it so happened that where we were sat was the spot at which Gogmagog had buried his treasure, and I realised the histories of North Wales record the same being. Then there was the revelation (If you’ll excuse the pun) that Gog and Magog both make an appearance in the Bible as a part of the apocalyptic texts of John and when I stumbled across the tidbit that Bush sr.’s ritualistic title in the Skull and Bones fraternity was Magog, that was it, I had to figure out who or what Gogmagog represented and why, for instance, two wicker giants called Gog and Magog lead the Lord Mayor’s parade through the occult esoteric capital of ‘the City’ in the square mile in London every year, as well as retaining pride of place, watching over the activities of parliament. The Phoenicians are one of the many incredibly advanced mariner cultures who sailed and charted the globe and the sky at a time when modern history teaches that most human beings thought the world was flat. Could the phoenix on Gog’s shield signal a knowledge of his origin? And was this where the esoteric arts of Druidism and Kabbala first entered into British culture, or were we all of the understanding that we were the remnants of the same mythological Golden Age, the time of the Egyptian Ogdoad?