Giants
Giants are a particular class of monsters that symbolize strength and power. They are common to the majority of mythological systems, and for some cultures they are even the legendary and malevolent first inhabitants of the world. For example, in Norse mythology giants represent the chaotic, wild, or disruptive forces of nature and make up a race divided into several groups that answers to a single king. Of enormous stature, they possess multiple hands and heads. Nevertheless, because they symbolize the destructive energies of the natural world, they also have a positive dimension, inasmuch as they are the keepers of memory, being the masters of time and immortality. The ambivalence of the Norse giants also resides in the fact that the origin of the world arose from their capacity for destruction.
In Greek mythology, giants were cruel beings who, in addition to their enormous size, possessed characteristics such as an elevated number of arms, eyes, bodies, and so forth. In the Chinese tradition, giants can be beneficent, but in general they do nothing but disturb the peace of the universe.