Their noted fall to decadence by the Comanches and the noting of the description of the Choctaw after they crossed the Mississippi really gives me an eerie feeling. Did this "ancient race" too fall to similar patterns as our current species observes? If they truly were cannibals without justice or mercy and if their pride truly overcame them, only for the Great Spirit ("God", Jahweh, the Tao, Mohammad, etc.) to whisk them away, does that not sound like a similar story? I get that they noted their height, but were they really "giants", or were they intending for "giant" to be metaphoric? Maybe they were just around seven feet... Still, this seems scarily similar to the situation we observe in our world today considering recent exposure of cannibalism en masse, a lack of justice spread across the world, as well as mercy. If we consider the world's move toward adopting athiesim/hedonism (inspired by "Satanism"?) today, would that not indicate a swelling of pride?
Manta:
León said that the sexual habits of the giants were revolting to the Natives and heaven eventually wiped out the giants because of those habits.
The Paiutes even mention their tendency toward cannibalism, mentioning that the recovered remains from some archaeological sites were noted as having the marrow removed... which they suggest indicates cannibalism.
The Navajo are the only ones this page doesn't indicate as having mentioned these types of tendencies, but this is quite an alarming perspective to have.
Really interesting perspective, also a classic story, an advanced people who let their success get to their heads. Scary parallels like you said.
Of course.
We'd be fools if we didn't think history has long been cyclical.
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