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The Mysterious Didanum People

The Mysterious Didanum People

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One of the races mentioned in sacred texts, especially Bible texts are the Didanum People (or Ditanu or Tidanu), the precursors of the Nephilim and Rephaim going back to 3,000 BC. There are not many references to this race, however we will try to touch upon what is known about them.

Many already know about the Nephilim, the offspring of the ‘sons of Gods’ and the ‘daughters of men’, beings of gigantic size with incredible abilities and powers who are associated with the demi-gods of all different religions and mythologies. In the same category belong the Rephaim, who were also beings of enormous stature and powerful abilities, a generation of heroes. Furthermore, references to the Rephaim in the Bible, identify them as shades or spirits, giving another dimension to their existence as if they were able to interact or manifest at the same time in different realities.

God ElIn ancient texts, it seems that the Didanites are very closely related to the Rephaim, making them another race related to the ‘Gods’ of the past. In the Epic of Kret (Keret), a Canaanite Epic of the Bronze Age which is written in the Ugaritic language found on 3 clay tablets, God El (the father of Gods according to Canaanites, also identified with the Egyptian god Ptah) promises King Keret that the glory of his family is going to be restored. It mentions the assembly of the Ditanites, referring to the Didanum people. King Keret was a descendent of the Didanites and a ruler of the region around the mountain of the Amorites as well as Tidanum Mountain. The importance of the Didanum people was significant since the presence of the Council of the Didanites was required during the accession of the Kings.

References to this text may also identify Amorites with the Didanums. Amorites (or Tidnum in Akkadian) were a group of people from ancient Syria who lived around 2,000-3,000 BC. The Syrian region Jebel Bishri is what they called the mountain of the Amorites. Whether Amorites just used the term Didanum or if they were the Didanum people is not known. Furthermore, in one Sumerian poem called the Descent of Inanna to the Netherworld, the Didanum people are referred to as an enemy of Inanna (Sumerian goddess of sexual love, fertility and warfare).

In other texts Didanites appear to be connected to Dedan who also happens to be an important God of the Nubians in Egypt. It is interesting to notice that Dedan was a descendant of Noah. The people of Dedan were warned by the God that his wrath was going to fall upon them because Dedan questioned the motives of God, in the same way that all descendants of the Nephilim were executed by Joshua with the help of ‘God’ leaving no traces of them.

Concluding what we can say about the Didanum people is that they were gigantic people, probably descendants of the ‘Gods’ with great physical and mental power associated in some ways with the royal dynasties of the past. They were so important that their name has been used later on as a title for important royal people. What happened to them and how did they come to exist is unknown. But the important thing is that we have reference to another strange race of giants amongst humanity that suddenly disappeared.

By John Black

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Comments

Hi All,

This is so exciting to read on these mysterious Subjects.

I'm not certain but, I do believe that there were Six Races of these Beings which our Ancient Ancestors testified too Them existence on Earth.

I'm beginning to see a pattern emerge all of these Giant Tribes & Clans discussed at length in The Bible and other written works is that they keep disappearing but, from a profile description of these things perhaps we shouldn't be so eager to see these things or find their skeletal remains.

I feel as though this is a scenario right out of Jurassic Park (The First Movie), an we're sitting around that conference table discussing these Giant Beings newly discovered Skeletal Remains.

Since they've disappeared I can't speak for how everyone else feels I believe God doesn't want us to find them. Remember Eden, an The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, an The serpent (apparently his name is Gadreel), falsely assures us that "We Won't Die".

Question Do we not die?

Have we not attended funerals of love ones; are passing acquaintance where their loved one's has died?

Remember the question that gets asked the most?
Why do bad things happen to good people?

So I wouldn't recommend actively seeking those specific Skeletal remains from our distant past out.

Like Jeff Goldblum's character in Lost World Jurassic Park; Ian Malcolm said back in the trailer, "Hang onto Something; this is going to be Bad", it's not that I see disaster everywhere; it's that when one is dealing with particular lessons from The Standpoint of The Bible, the outcome is pretty much predictable.

The trouble could have been avoided if the people in The Biblical Account's just trusted God.

I know not everyone believes in my sentiment but, since the Topic pertain to a third mysterious Giant Clans that paleontology, anthropology, an geology has yet to discover in the ground in The Bible, then this is where, my view point is originating from.

I think that's all I have to share for now so until next time Everyone, Goodbye!

LOok in Wiki........the Last 10 GIANTS lived in SL..............
This is not Just a story to people in here........its TURE
GIANTS ...........

I was fortunate to grow up with my mom an astrologer. She hosted the weekly astology meetings at my home with a wonderful teacher Barbara Wood, who had a little astrology TV show in Connecticut back in the day, and I was exposed to all manner of esoteric AND general religious information.

My impressions of Astrology are that it actually ISN'T predictive or set-in-stone and that really what it is indicating are TRENDS and INFLUENCES in your life that you can either guard against or plan for and exploit for benefit.

Preamble

if we take the story of Alice in Wonderland and we have the key to the story, it makes almost complete and perfect sense.
Alternatively it is the work of a savant with a penchant for telling stupendous stories.

The key in this case is M.J and Morning Glory and other such God given plants like Mandrake and Amanita Muscaria. One would either need to experience these or to have a well grounded knowledge to appreciate the key and how it fit the key in the lock and turn push open the door and see the next reality.

We may say that Astrology is bunkum and detest the thought of having a pre-determined destiny.
I write not of magazine astrology which is somewhat less than entertainment for the mindless.

The epic of Gilgamesh is pure Astrological teaching, as all the best learned lessons come in the form of a story. Stories are the preferred method of teaching in that which we call 'primitive', tribes, as was the case with us many eons ago.
For myself, being an amateur Astrologer many of the ancient myths make perfect sense.

If mainstream could just take a small step to the left and embrace the (pseudo) science of Astrology a new world opens up and understanding (enlightenment) is just on the other side of that inhibiting door.

I doubt the only reason they wiped them out was because the questioned the motives of god/gods

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Dr John (Ioannis) Syrigos initially began writing on Ancient Origins under the pen name John Black. He is both a co-owner and co-founder of Ancient Origins.

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