Saed News: You might find it interesting to know where all these stories about one-eyed giants in ancient Greece come from.
Saed News History Service reports: The Cyclops, or one-eyed giant, is one of the mythical creatures in Greek mythology and later in Roman mythology. In Greek myth, the Cyclops refers to a very ancient race of giants with a single eye in the middle of their forehead. They were powerful, stubborn, and unpredictable, and their actions were always accompanied by violence and strength. According to Greek legends, there were two generations of Cyclopes: the first generation consisted of three immortal brothers named Brontes (Thunderer), Steropes (Lightning), and Arges (Bright), who were born from Gaia and Uranus. The second generation were descendants of Poseidon, the most famous of whom was Polyphemus from Homer's Odyssey.
The island where the Cyclopes were believed to live is part of Sicily. They lived in caves and fed on all kinds of fresh meat (including human flesh), and also kept sheep and goats. In Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus and his crew entered their island, and six of his sailors were eaten by Polyphemus. Odysseus got him drunk and blinded him with a hot stake.
The Greeks considered gods and monsters to be the children of the Titans, the primordial gods, most of whom were offspring of Gaia, the mother goddess, and Uranus. These two produced many children, including the twelve Titans. The Cyclopes, who symbolized thunder, lightning, and fire, were the first blacksmiths and were imprisoned by Uranus. Zeus freed the Cyclopes during his rebellion against the Titans, and in return, they gifted him his famous weapons, thunderbolt and lightning.
Historians believe that when the ancient Greeks discovered mammoth bones, they could not understand the reality behind so many large bones, so they concluded that one-eyed giants had once lived in their land.
