Of five continents

(!!! Google translation, will be corrected)

When the waters under the heaven gathered together, five dry places appeared. (Gen.1:9)

The first dry place was big; and its name was Lilliput.

And the name of the second dry place was Atlantis.

And the name of the third dry place was Hyperborea.

And the name of the fourth dry place was Bothflanks.

And the last dry place was little; and its name was Brobdingnag.

There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown. (Gen.6:4)

And it came to pass that the king of Lilliput gathered together a mighty army to conquer Brobdingnag.

Then the king of Brobdingnag asked for the help of the king of Atlantis, but he did not help.

Thereafter the king of Brobdingnag asked the king of Hyperborea for help, but also he did not help.

Thereafter the king of Brobdingnag asked the king of Bothflanks for help, but he didn't help either.

At last, the king of Brobdingnag asked the gods for help, and they helped. Atlantis, Hyperborea and Bothflanks with their inhabitants was shrunk to twelfth; and Lilliput with its inhabitants was shrunk to twelfth of twelfth. And so only the Brobdingnagians remained giants, while the Lilliputians became c-spanlings¹.

Notes

(¹) A spanling is a manikin who is one span tall. Between the thumb and forefinger is a subtenor|G span (8 inches, ie for metric inch 200 mm), between the thumb index finger is a tenor|c span (6 inches, 150 mm). (Some nations use a bass|F (pseudo)span, but such a unit is correctly called a "head", because it is the eighth of fathom and the lore of body proportions says that "the figure has eight heads". Ignorance of this length measure was also the cause of exaggerated ideas about dragons. "Seven-headed dragon" really means just that it is one head less tall than a human, and the "twelve-headed dragon" is one half taller than a human.)

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