Mystery in Ecuador: they find remains that would have belonged to ancient giants 7 meters high | the Chronicle

The story of our ancestors is based on documented facts, myths and even a few lies that seem to give a story another color. One of them took place at Ecuador where some archaeologists and residents of a small town called Changaimina, say that giant human bones were recovered.

One of the people who would have preserved these bones was the priest Carlos Miguel Vaca Alvarado, born in 1912, in the Ecuadorian town of Loja. The bones, which were in his possession until his death in 1999, were found in the small town called Changaimina, located 755 kilometers from Quito.

Changaimina deriva from back voces kichwas: “Changa” Which refers to “leg”, in particular to the femur or in general to human bones, and “To exploit” which means deposit. Interestingly, a bone deposit can also be a cemetery or a place where the bones of the deceased lie.

In 1965, Father Vaca was assisted by a group of 25 people who explored and excavated the land where lay the body of a giant. There they found the remains of his head, then the trunk and finally the limbs. The discovery coincided with the old name of the small town: Changaimina, where it is said that the city-cemetery of the gods could have existed.

The priest was passionate about archeology and this hobby and the legends told by the inhabitants of the region led him to the discovery of these remains.

Vaca’s collection had the bones of giants seven meters high who inhabited Ecuador and other parts of America thousands of years ago. According to newspaper reports, some of the bone fragments were sent to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC for further analysis.

Fragments of giants found in Ecuador in the 1960s can be seen today in Jungfrau Park in Switzerland. Other bones from this collection are on display in the private museum of the paranormal investigator of Austrian origin Klaus Dona.

Giants known to history

In mythology, the existence of giants is a constant, for example, in the biblical account, there is the Philistine Goliath, which measured almost 3 meters. Or the Nephilim race of fallen gods and sons of gods. Depending on the version of Helen, there are 12 Titans, led by Cronos, who fought his father Uranus at the request of his mother Gea. You can also read the Sumerian epic of the king Gilgamesh, 7 meters high, which already evokes the universal flood.

Perhaps the most famous of all the vernacular stories recorded in written testimony in South America concerns the Patagonians. These creatures were recorded in the diaries of the Portuguese sailor Ferdinand of Magellan in his search for a passage between the Atlantic and the Pacific, the strait he discovered and which bears his name.

“We saw a man near the beach who was so big our head barely reached his size,” then write Antonio Pigafetta, faithful sailor of Magellan. They called them “Patagonia”, by the excessive size of their feet. From there derives the word Patagonia which gives its name to the Argentine region.

The famous British privateer and slave trader Sir Francois Drake he personally met the giant of Patagonia attesting to the testimony of the Portuguese navigator: “Magellan did not lie at all when he called them giants, in general, they differ from ordinary man, both in stature, size and strength of the body, and in the ugliness of their voices: but they are not at all monstrous and gigantic, as they were represented ”.

Dutch explorer Jacob Le Maine he crossed South America in 1615 and left a map of the Puerto Deseado region in Argentine Patagonia. In the cartographic explanations, a strange detail emerges: it describes the point H as the place “Where they found the burial place of a giant, whose bones were between ten and eleven feet long,” that is, more than three meters.

The Spanish Jesuit, anthropologist and naturalist José de Acosta, who first landed on Española Island in the Galapagos Archipelago in 1571, to begin his journey ashore from Peru in 1572, wrote in his Natural History of the Indies that the Chichimecas, peoples originally from Mexico , were giants “which tore branches from trees while defoliating lettuce ”.

For its part, Juan de Velasco, an Ecuadorian Jesuit, underlined in his Historia Antigua del Reyno de Quito of 1789 that “Manta was at the beginning of the Christian era the scene of the terrible race of giants” and detailed the spectacular sizes of the skeletons and footprints found in present-day Manabí, the Santa Elena peninsula and in the territories of Caranquis, d’Imbabura belong to the same giants referenced in biblical texts.

These testimonies are corroborated with the most recent discoveries of another priest, Father Carlos Miguel Vaca, which coincide with other identical discoveries around the world. Changaimina, the Cemetery City of the Gods remains hidden, despite the testimonies of explorers and archaeologists.