Entry 1:
Have been going on a hunt lately into the past . . . way back into the past. I've been reading some legends about giants, and have been looking for more information on them from Babylonian, Mesopotamian, and early civilization literature. So far there is little research that takes giants seriously, and most of it is labeled as folklore or children's fiction. There's a website from a guy in Texas who claims to have some pictures of giant graves and skeletons of 35' humans (that's right, not a typo), but his website has been labeled as "very cranky" by another watchdog website. Most of the websites on giants also talk about alien abduction and extreme interpretations of biblical prophecy in the next sentence.
One book at Barnes & Noble, Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock, looks at archaeological evidence connecting the Incan, Aztec, Egyptian, and Mesopotamian civilizations together, but it seems to be categorized as "marginal" history, a kind of subversive underground.
The Epic of Gilgamesh came in the mail this week. Will be reading it soon, once papers are done and a few other books and editing projects are finished. For now, signing off.
- Drake Finton, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
