Note: This article has been extracted from my book, Yuga Shift
When we read the ancient legends and folktales, we constantly hear about how the heroes of the bygone ages were big and phenomenally strong. And I am not talking about the Greek demigods here, who were supposedly as tall as 15 feet, as per the classical Greco-Roman writers. I am talking about normal human beings. Pliny the Elder wrote in Natural History,
“But it is almost a matter of observation that with the entire human race the stature on the whole is becoming smaller daily, and that few men are taller than their fathers...Moreover, the famous bard Homer nearly 1000 years ago never ceased to lament that mortals were smaller of stature than in the old days.”[1]
