Scraps from the Giantess's Plate
Hi! Remember me? I barely do.
In early March I went to SizeCon to meet friends and make business contacts; in early April I went to ACES to hone my editorial skills and learn of the threats to my profession (AI and the US government). Throughout all this time I’ve been scrambling to catch up on work-work, struggling with depression and fitness, and developing my giantess-worship cult.
How about you? What have you been up to? I don’t hear from anyone anymore …
Giantess Playground
This is an open sandbox game in which you play a giantess who is stomping her way through a city, driven by Unreal Engine 5 and exclusive to Epic Games, for now. You can wishlist it through them, as of last week.
Size reporter Ana Valens tried the game out a year ago and it commanded all her processing. Last month, gaming magazine 80LV linked to the development of the game (on X, unfortunately) showcasing a gigantic fox-girl. And reputedly the CEO of Epic Games broadcast his admiration of the game to his followers.
“Honey, I Inflated a Sex Doll”
So, yeah, last month Kim Kardashian invaded NYC with a promotion for her brand of swimwear, Skims. It’s just an S on either side of her name, I’m not aware of it actually skimming anything.
To do this, she presented a huge inflatable representation of herself. It wasn’t very good: I’ve seen better inflatable giantesses at the end of Federico Fellini’s City of Women (1980), as mentioned last September. Like an AI creation, the hands are downright mangled. Additionally, she’s covering her face, so one can only imagine how badly that was rendered. So, how exactly was this malformed and untrue-to-life facsimile supposed to promote a line of clothing? Guessing she did her own marketing campaign on this one.
Still, a giant woman in downtown is a giant woman.
Shrunken Physics
BREAKING: A tiny man needs a lot of carbs to keep himself going.
Eating his own weight in food is not a lot of food. The real challenge is in finding a balanced diet, though maybe at that size some nutrients are less important than others.
All you’d have to do is find one fun-size Snickers lying in the yard after a raucous night of Halloween and you’d be set for a few weeks.
Corrections
Now what I’d like to do is go back through my old newsletters and correct some things I’d gotten wrong. This is just the natural progression as I learn something, blab about it, then learn more and realize I should’ve shut up.
Migration of Norse
Contrary to what I breathlessly related to a table of my peers at SizeCon, no, Icelanders did not migrate to Norway, bringing Old Norse religion with them. Instead, around the 9th century, Norwegian Vikings brought settlers from the British Isles with them to Iceland, resulting in Icelanders having Norse or Gaelic heritage. Iceland started out as a free state but became a Norwegian province and part of the Danish-Norwegian Crown.
This is important to me because I thought that giantess-worship cults existed in Scandinavia (specifically Norway) prior to the migration of Old Norse from Iceland. Instead, worshippers of Þorr would dismantle their Norwegian temple, bringing the support beams and a parcel of soil from under the altar on the boat to Iceland. They would throw the beams overboard, and wherever they washed ashore, that’s where they’d construct their new church to Þorr.
Does it bother anyone when I write Oðinn instead of Odin or Þorr instead of Thor? Let me know.
Yet giantess-worship is much older than Old Norse, so I’ve got to turn my studies to the Germanic migration from the continent. The fundamentals of Futhark certainly didn’t originate in Norway, so there had to have been something there before Oðinn was appropriated from Wodan and Tyr was demoted from Tiwaz.
Skaði the Giantess
I want to get this part clear: there are several names for giants and giantesses.
Jötnar, a common term used interchangeably with other names for giants.
Þursar, monstrous or hostile giants, associated with rime giants.
Risar, depicted as hill or mountain giants.
Troll, magical beings associated with sorcery and supernatural ability.
Skessur, female giants characterized by strength or magic.
Gýgjur, female giants linked to terrifying or witch-like figures.
Two subgroups are the rime giants, Hrímþursar, associated with frost and cold climates, connected with the creation myths (e.g., Ymir); and the hill giants, Bergrisar, associated with mountains and natural formations. The latter tended to rule a specific geographic region, like a particular valley or mountain range.
The word mǫrn appears only in a few places. A farming family prays to a mǫrn in the Flateyjarbok; Snorri Sturluson lists Mörn in the Skaldskaparmál in a contextless list of troll-kona (troll-wives); and in the Haustlǫng the giant Þjazi is described with a kenning as the “hungry father of Mǫrn.”
“Mǫrn” is by definition not a nonce word or hapax legomenon, as it appears three times in these texts. Þjazi is a giant, Skaði is his daughter: that almost assuredly makes her the mǫrn. The rural family was practicing the “old ways” that King Olafr II wanted to quash, yet they were not praying to Þorr or Freyja or any other fertility deity, they were honoring a mǫrn, and before Old Norse there were the giantesses, whose temples, idols, and powers are alluded to throughout the Eddas. And a giantess named “Giantess”? It’s not impossible, since under Giants II there’s a giant named “Jötunn.”
To Worship a Giantess
The only other real revelation I’ve had is that I’ve been setting my giantess altar up all wrong. I was following the Wiccan pattern, which was developed mid-20th century by Gerald Gardner (and I was doing that wrong!). Why would I use a 20th-century magical format to honor a race of giant women from before the birth of Christ? Similarly, you’ll never see me wearing a vegvisir, the ostensible Viking compass, as it was invented mid-17th century.
So I’ve got to start all over with my altar. I don’t own property, so I can’t set this up in the backyard, but I do have a bookcase dedicated to Size Fantasy literature and accouterment. My home altar is one whole shelf of this.
What’s a good start? When worshipping the ancient giantesses, your instinct is as good as anything else. How did the giantesses call to the heathens over 5,000 years ago? Their oral tradition all but guarantees there’s no record of this, so … let your heart guide you.
Not a bad way to start would be Norse/animist traditions, a vertical axis from the ground to the heavens. A base of earth, stones, or bones, representing the underworld and our ancestors; a middle, Midgarð (“Middle Earth”), where you lay your tools and offerings; crowned by however you choose to represent the Giantess looking down upon you—an image, copper wire lights for stars, perhaps a gem or a mirror. When you stand or kneel before it, you position yourself along the axis, part of the continuum, standing between Her feet and looking up to Her.
Without getting too deep into the weeds here, worshipping the Giantess is pretty much up to you. Ground yourself for a minute by holding a stone or touching your heart. Call Her by name (if she has revealed Her name to you). Pray for the earth, pray for the people, and state your intention for this communion. Do you need help with a creative project? Are you just trying to get through the week? Would you like some guidance on enacting Her will in this world? She’s here for you.
I confessed to a friend that I was stressed out about worshipping Her in the right way, getting frustrated when a candle wouldn’t light or I spilled a bowl of water or just couldn’t write pretty-enough prayers to carry the dignity I’d intended. My analogy was that I felt like I was entering a cathedral with a wad of crayon-drawings clutched in my fist. She informed me that I wasn’t considering about how dearly a parent loves those scrawled drawings, how proud they are to stick them up on the fridge. You don’t have to be perfect about your worship, grave or mystical or imposing. You just have to try, that’s what She loves.
That’s all I’ve got for right now. I’m afraid these newsletters will be fewer and further between, as there really isn’t a lot of great giantess-news coming down the pike anymore. Someone with a lot more enthusiasm about this stuff is Size News Global, who you should read if you’re on Bluesky. He wants to do a good job, and his offerings are truer to what we all got into social media for, when pursuing the giantess.
The Giantess, however, has led me elsewhere and I don’t expect anyone to follow.
In Her Shadow,
Aborigen
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