If giants were ever real, then it’s only logical there must have been both male and female ones. Although the most common stories are about male giants, on the Mediterranean islands of Malta and Gozo, a legend is told that one of their earliest settlers was a giantess named Sansuna. Her daughter begat the first residents of Gozo and her son married in Mosta, on the Maltese mainland.
A second legend says that in the Maltese village of Tas-Silġ, an eight-foot tall Saracen woman is buried, along with her spinning wheel. And in the book Excavations in Malta, Margaret Murray wrote that the megalithic temple of Hagar Qim was entirely built by women.
A UNESCO World Heritage Site, Hagar Qim has some stones that are five meters (over 16 feet) tall and weigh an estimated 15 tonnes. Archaeologists say the temple was built between 3600 and 3200 BC, about a thousand years earlier than the Great Pyramid of Giza. If not by giants, then how could these cyclopian structures have been created?
The photo at the top shows all that remains of a huge statue of a woman who originally must have been nine or ten feet tall. The hem of her skirt is the same as worn by the “Sleeping Goddess of Malta” I wrote about last month.
She was unearthed in 1915 after a Maltese farmer complained to Sir Themistocles Zammit, the director of the Malta Museum, that large blocks of stone were preventing him from plowing his field.
The Oldest Structures Still Standing on Earth
Our small group tour of Malta still has a few spaces available, so you could be exploring the world’s oldest buildings that were made by man (or woman) this fall. Leaders of the tour are author and intuitive life-journey guide Nancy Auspelmyer and alternative healing teacher Dr. Ling Chen. Tour dates are October 19 – 25, 2022.
In addition to Hagar Qim, you will also visit the ancient megalithic temples at Mnajdra, Ggantija, Tarxien and the Hypogeum.
Plus…
- Tour the 16th century city of Valetta,
- View the “Beheading of St John the Baptist” painting by Caravaggio in St. John’s Cathedral,
- Take a ferry ride to the island of Gozo, legendary abode of Calypso,
- Learn about the portal to the Crystal City said to exist under the Maltese sea,
- Experience the concentrated energy at Mosta Church,
- And much more….
But don’t wait too long – we only have three spaces left!
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Photo credits:
Malta Hal Tarxien Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Hagar Qim-14-Durchgaenge Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Ggantija Portal Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons