Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Native American giants found in Patagonia



Christian God forbids blood, raw meat
According to Antonio Pigafetta [7], one of the Ferdinand Magellan expedition's few survivors and its published chronicler, Magellan bestowed the name Patagão (or Patagón) on the GIANT inhabitants they encountered there.


The name "Patagonia" refers to the region, the land of giants with giant feet and footprints.

Modern Afghan cannibal cave giant (yakkha)
Although Pigafetta's account does not describe how this name came about, subsequent popular interpretations gave credence to a derivation meaning "land of the big feet."

However, this etymology is questionable. The term might be derived from an actual character name, "Patagón," a savage creature confronted by Primaleón of Greece, the hero in the homonymous Spanish chivalry novel (knight-errantry tale) by Francisco Vázquez [63].


No giants have ever existed.
This book, published in 1512, was the sequel of the romance Palmerín de Oliva; it was much in vogue at the time and a favorite reading of Magellan.

Magellan's perception of the natives, dressed in skins and eating raw meat, may have recalled the uncivilized Patagón in Vázquez's book.

European meets American giants
Novelist and travel writer Bruce Chatwin suggests etymological roots of both Patagon and Patagonia in his book, In Patagonia [64], noting a tenuous similarity between "Patagon" and the Greek word παταγος, which means "a roaring" or "gnashing of teeth."

(In his chronicle, Pigafetta describes the Patagonians as "roaring like bulls"). More

There are really giants on earth?

Siberian Asian Clovis DNA: not first
(Discovery FutureClovis culture Anzick-1 DNA found and analyzed. The Clovis were not the first Americans, not the first arrivals on the continent (the Americas). There have been older finds such as Monte Verde, Chile and the older White Sands footprints in New Mexico

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