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In this edition of Real or Fake grab bag, we're digging into the inbox to show you what's hot this week among the netizens of the world. First up is a look at that mega viral story about that girl snagged by a rogue Sea Lion. Then we have a picture claiming to show the skull of an ancient cyclop. The finally, we take a look at a crazy video about an obese young man who rides a skateboard into a huge cactus patch!
MORE ABOUT CYCLOPS
A cyclops in Greek mythology and later Roman mythology, was a member of a primordial race of giants, each with a single eye in the center of his forehead. The word "cyclops" literally means "round-eyed"[2] or "circle-eyed".
A possible origin for the cyclops legend, advanced by the paleontologist Othenio Abel in 1914,[ is the prehistoric dwarf elephant skulls – about twice the size of a human skull – that may have been found by the Greeks on Cyprus, Crete, Malta and Sicily. Abel suggested that the large, central nasal cavity (for the trunk) in the skull might have been interpreted as a large single eye-socket. Given the inexperience of the locals with living elephants, they were unlikely to recognize the skull for what it actually was.
Hesiod described three one-eyed cyclopes, Brontes, Steropes and Arges, the sons of Uranus and Gaia, brothers of the Titans, builders and craftsmen, while the epic poet Homer described another group of mortal herdsmen cyclopes the sons of Poseidon. Other accounts were written by the playwright Euripides, poet Theocritus and Roman epic poet Virgil. In Hesiod's Theogony, Zeus releases three cyclopes from the dark pit of Tartarus. They provide Zeus' thunderbolt, Hades' helmet of invisibility, and Poseidon's trident, and the gods use these weapons to defeat the Titans.
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