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THAT THEY ARE THE GIANT PUPPETS?

Giant puppet figure marching past by a town of the Sussu ethnic group (Guinea Conakry) in an engraving of year 1880. Interior structure of a figure Shalako, of the tribes hopis (United States), according to a drawing of the year 1899. Giant puppets without trestle in The Philippines.

From the Circle we contemplated to the world of the giant pupets, bigheaded and other figures of parade with an opened vision rather more than the traditional form with which it is seen by many European historians. 

The knowledge of the wealth and diversity of the giant figures (we repeated: we are 80 countries) it has made us raise to us as they were the original reasons that they motivated them and the reason of its dimensions superior to the normal ones.

This small note we will not enter establishing parallelisms and relations between giant figures and personages on stilts in some very distant countries among them, nor try that these commentaries are valid for all the places in which are these figures, but the advantage to know this wealth and diversity allows us to think on the subject:
 
The giant figures appear as religious element and does it, at least, in four of the five continent in the same (ample) space of time.
 
The giant puppetts concept, in simpler his and primitive essence, comes dice by the dimensions from the figure, since this one excels over the heads of the assistants to the ceremonies and with it the representation of the "being" or "God" is magnified who represents.
 
The form in which this figure is taken (always over the head of the carrier) is an element that can help us to know if this one has evolved from its origins or no.
 
Thus, in the case of the African continent (richest and diverse) we can find great amount of constructive formulas, completely different from the others, but always with the same context, and that already was presents when the first European explorers arrived at their coasts, like it happened to some tribes of the north of the American continent.
 
It is precise to know the old figures African to be able to understand the world of the giants.
 
The other definitive element in the evolutionary process of the giants is the support that allows to maintain them still on when is not the carrier in its interior. One is a modern element which, along with the internal ring framework, has helped to evolve the giants and to give the height them, it forms and image present.
 
Nevertheless in the same way that these internal elements not yet have been gotten up in many points (Africa, zones of Asia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico, Uruguay...) in other points already appear in others (we have reasons to never think that before century XV), as it is the case of the European countries and, at the same time, in some places of America. It is to say that, again, the same evolutionary process is present in remote places of the others.
 
We do not try that these affirmations are shared, but if respected; we understand that it is very difficult to assume this wealth and diversity, in special when it is not known, but this it is the investigation way that from the Circle we have adopted and in that we invited to participate to you.