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He Says the Gods All Had Six Fingers

2026-07-16 Entertainment
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Jim Viera has been in this game for thirty years, hosted shows for the History Channel, appeared on Ancient Aliens, and spent fifteen years working on a book that he freely admits sounds insane. Greg Maestro is a filmmaker, developer, and creative who ran towards AI when everyone else ran away, and whose contribution to the giants conversation started with a man in San Diego who said he used to have six fingers on both hands and six toes on both feet. Together, brought together by Hugh Newman, they have written Footprints of the Gods, a worldwide data set on polydactyly, giants, and the divine across oral tradition, rock art, and academic literature. The book's central argument is not that some people in history were very tall. It is that a consistent global pattern of giants with six fingers and six toes appears across every indigenous tradition on Earth, from Aboriginal Australians repainting a thirty-foot six-fingered giant in Arnhem Land, to the giant of Gath in the Bible, to Gilgamesh in Mesopotamia, to the most recently unearthed ancient settlements which Istanbul University archaeologists are describing as yielding humanoids with strange numbers of fingers, never five. Jim's point is that dismissing this requires dismissing the oral traditions of virtually every indigenous culture that exists, and that the academic sources doing the most interesting work on this, at Chaco Canyon, Teotihuacan, Palenque, and the 9,000-year-old shaman site in Jerusalem, are reaching the same conclusion: in the ancient world, extra digits were not a medical condition to be treated. They were a mark of the divine. His deeper argument is that giants do not fit within natural evolution, and that this is the point: the oldest creation traditions across the planet, Viracocha in Peru, the Anunnaki in Mesopotamia, and their equivalents everywhere else, describe giants as the products of engineering gods, terraforming wisdom-bringers, androgynous genetic architects who created them and then, in most traditions, destroyed them in a flood. Watson and Crick themselves, Jim notes, observed that Homo sapiens appear to have been genetically engineered. Where the evidence takes you, he says, is where he goes. Greg brings the AI dimension. He has boardrooms of AI agents, has used the technology to place Jim alongside Gilgamesh in ancient Mesopotamia, and is developing augmented reality tools that would let people hold their phone up and see a giant standing next to them to scale. His own encounter with polydactyly, the man who said he used to have six fingers on both hands and six toes on both feet, removed at birth, along with his brother, who identified Sirius as the constellation that resonated with him, is the kind of moment Greg says crystallised what the book is actually pointing at. Footprints of the Gods is available on Amazon in paperback and e-book. Jim and Greg are author of the month on Graham Hancock's website. **CHAPTERS** 00:10 Introduction and what the book is about 00:36 Jim Viera: 30 years in the field and why he now believes giants are real 02:05 The global oral tradition: every indigenous culture has giants 03:41 Spirit Cave Man and the pattern of dismissing oral history 04:01 How Jim and Greg came together through Hugh Newman 05:10 Do they disagree on anything 06:51 Australian Aboriginals, the giant Nauru, and the data set 08:37 The Smithsonian and why the evidence has been shelved 10:21 The lead archaeologist at Gobekli Tepe and the ad hominem attacks 12:22 Giants as products of genetic engineering, not natural evolution 14:27 Velikovsky, Watson and Crick, and the engineering gods hypothesis 15:22 Greg Maestro on AI, filmmaking, and recreating Gilgamesh 17:37 Tesla Tech, suppressed technology, and the fog of war 22:00 Intuition as a research tool 23:13 Do you actually believe this: Jim goes on record 24:29 Greg's six-fingered encounter in San Diego 26:32 Polydactyly, divinity, and what the academic sources are actually saying 28:24 Who else to follow: Hugh Newman, Paul Anthony Wallis 30:14 Where to find the book and closing thoughts **GUESTS** Jim Viera — https://jimvieira.com/ Greg Maestro — https://gregmaestro.com/ Buy Footprints of the Gods: https://www.amazon.com/Footprints-Gods-Extra-Digits-Giants-ebook/dp/B0GX2WV3R7 Graham Hancock - Author of the Month Article - https://grahamhancock.com/articles/author-of-the-month/ **ABOUT** TTN News covers the cosmic history that shaped this planet, the deep human past still buried in the ground, and the disclosure story unfolding right now, with primary sources and the people doing the work. **FOLLOW TTN NEWS** [https://www.facebook.com/cosmicsummit] · [https://x.com/Cosmicsummitx] · [https://www.instagram.com/cosmic.summit/] · [https://thetitan.network/] #TTNNews #JimViera #GregMaestro #FootprintsOfTheGods #Giants #Polydactyly #AncientGiants #Anunnaki #Gilgamesh #OralTradition #AncientHistory #BecketFusik

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@lifesiverygud3405 2026-07-17

My childhood friend (Tongan) was born with 6 digits on hands and toes. They removed the extras when he was a baby. I’m Tongan, many people in the past were known to have six fingers and toes and the Tongan people are known to be very very tall and strong. And I was married to a Cuban who had his 6th digits off his feet removed at 18 in order to go into the army and fit the combat boots.

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@timmurphy334 2026-07-17

Upcoming episode with George and Andrew -- STOKED ! Thanks, Jim, Greg and Beckett. Great conversation. ❤️‍🔥

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@chrispygalactic 2026-07-19

Growing up in The Valley of Nova Scotia we learned about Gloscap the Giant from Micmaq Indian legend. This was taught in my elementary school.

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@MegalithomaniaUK 2026-07-17

Cheeseboard Hugh made an appearance!!! 🧀(Steph, did you edit this video?!)

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@ChrisBowmanArt 2026-07-16

The Smithsonian “misplaced” the giants.

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@timmurphy334 2026-07-17

Paul Wallis is AWESOME.

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@UnclearFizzyCyst 2026-07-18

Something to bear in mind is that, until writing, everything was oral or symbolic. Memorization was EVERYTHING so techniques for optimizing memory would be used to transfer knowledge; the human database was stored in this manner. Secrecy was also paramount so myths would be dual-meaning, 'guild' secrets were never to be revealed etc kept things under control. Entire societies evolved and, until writing, oral histories are all that remained.

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@KarenSanderson1 2026-07-17

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

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@timmurphy334 2026-07-17

Referring to the dialogue starting at 19:45 ; There is no bottom to any one single rabbit hole -- they are all connected.

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@timmurphy334 2026-07-17

21:50 ; Universal Soul Consciousness ( "THE" Soul ), exists as a fractal form ; every part (incarnation), contains the whole. When the connection to ego-self is dissolved, what remains is the connection to everything else. "As the Universe, so the Soul."

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