Giants in the Land (and dwarfs too)

I received these images and a map of the Holy Land amatuerishly marked to show the supposed site of these finds.  I was immediately suspicious given the depth at which the bodies were found.  They should be at least 8 feet below ground level to fit the period of biblical history they are intended to support. Then there is the fact that the information comes from here:

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=107259262&blogId=185879654

There is no verification of this in any peer-reviewed journal, and were such a discovery made by biblical archaeologists you can be sure that they would be shouting about their discovery! It would at least get a mention in Biblical Archaeology Review.

That said, the biblical account of giants is already verified. The Sara people tell of giants living among them. Sarah, Abraham’s half-sister wife was of the Sara tribe. She dwelt in Hebron and Hebron was called Kiriath-Arba (Arabic name). Old Arabic is older than biblical Hebrew.  It was the language of the Dedanites. Dedan was a son of Joktan the Elder and the nephew of Peleg, in whose time there was "division".  The Arameans became jealous of their control in the north while their brother Horites controlled the southern territories of Joktan and Dedan. The time of division began about 5 generations before Abraham, and involved a geographical separation, not a change in the marriage pattern of these ruling houses. By taking the ancestor figurines, Rachel hoped to gain legal leverage for her first-born son in the southern territories. Rachel's first-born son was Joseph. This suggest another reason why Joseph's brothers were motivated to get rid of him.

It should be noted that dwarfs were also found among Abraham’s African ancestors. Both giantism and dwarfism were the result of the exclusive intermarriage pattern of the ruler-priests. They intermarried exclusively because they believed the promise made to their ancestors in Eden (Gen. 3:15) that a Woman of their bloodline would bring forth the Seed who would destroy the serpent and restore Paradise.

The Sara tribe originated in west central Africa. The largest population of Sara lives in Chad (where Noah’s flood took place about 8,000 years ago.). The social organization of the Sara closely resembles the social organization of Abraham’s ancestors. Sara society is organized by patrilineal descent from a common male ancestor. There is a 3-clan confederation such as characterizes Abraham's people. The qir ka are the eastern Sara, the qin ka are those living in central Chad, and the qel ka are the western groups. The Sara living today are descendents from an earlier 3-tribe confederation of warriors and kingdom builders. According to Sara legend, there were giants among them.

Yaksha, the dwarf (shown above) was venerated in the area where remains of giant men were found in 1936 in central Africa at Lake El-yasi.  The word Sanskrit word "yaksha" is probably related to the Kushite word "yashi".  In ancient Egypt the dwarf Bes (shown below) was venerated as a semi-divine ruler.

Bes figurine dating to between 1070 and 800 B.C.