Manta, recorded by Spanish chroniclersPunta de Santa Elena, EcuadorModern Legend
The Giants of Santa Elena
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Giants said to have landed by raft on the Ecuadorian coast: the bones under the story are mastodon.
Unverified modern legend. This entry is circulating oral tradition, not confirmed fact. No official records corroborate the account. How this archive treats evidence
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In 1553 a Spanish chronicler wrote down what the Manta people told him about the giants who landed on their coast. Four centuries later, someone worked out what the bones were.
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Sources
- Pedro Cieza de León, Crónica del Perú, 1553
- Garcilaso de la Vega, Comentarios Reales de los Incas, 1609
- Agustín de Zárate
- Pedro Gutiérrez de Santa Clara
- Antonio de Herrera
- José García de León y Pizarro, eighteenth-century report on the petrified bones of the Punta de Santa Elena
- modern research on the interpretation of mastodon remains in Ecuador