Jiang's own best guess is that giants are made of clay and rock just as hell is, while angels are made of divine light just as heaven is.
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"Okay. What are giants made of? Clay. Rocks. Right? What is hell made of? Probably clay and rocks, right? What are angels made of?..."
"...field of consciousness of the universe is like Play -Doh or clay. When he's reading the Aeneid a lot, and it's almost like he's..."
"...ill, and this love is born in three ways in your clay. There's he who, through abasement of another, hopes for supremacy. He only..."
"...of choicest iron except for his right foot, made of baked clay, and he rests more on this than on the left. Each part..."
"...ill, and this love is born in three ways in your clay. There is he who, through abasement of another, hopes for supremacy. He..."
"They just took clay from the riverbeds, okay? And then before it hardens, you just take a reed, and you write down some marks..."
"...gods for relief from Gilgamesh. So the gods create Enkidu from clay. Okay? And this is very similar to the story of Adam in..."
"...things that you played with that were flexible. They were like clay. You can change the stories over and over."
"...you look at Sumerian culture, Mesopotamian culture, they use cuneiform on clay tablets, which keeps forever. Okay? But if they had a writing system..."
"...Mesopotamia, the way they fight is they fight with these, um, clay bullets. Okay? And you take a, you take a slingshot and you..."
"...to Gilgamesh and his name is Enkidu. Enkidu is made of clay. The two fight and even though Gilgamesh defeats Enkidu in battle, Gilgamesh..."
"...They would keep a skull around. They would decorate it with clay and ochre, and they would use this skull as maybe a portal..."
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