"Once upon a time, Sansuna, a giantess on the island of Gozo, went to the town of Ta’ Cenc, placed huge stones upon one of her shoulders and carried them 4 km to their current resting place at Ġgantija, “the Place of Giants”. A multi-tasker, she did this while holding her half-giant, half-human baby over the other shoulder. Taking these heavy stones, she then built the temple complex of Ġgantija and afterwards allowed the local people to worship within. More unusually, and perhaps irrelevant to the story (but hey, it’s often the little details that make a tale believable), she lived exclusively on broad beans and honey (though some versions replace the honey with water)." Source
"But who was Sansuna, you might wonder, bearing in mind that Sansuna in Maltese is the female version of Sansun – namely Samson, the Biblical figure known for his tremendous physical strength. Sansuna features as a strong giantess who inhabited Gozo in a long-forgotten past and whose primary occupation was to carry megaliths across the island."
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"But who was Sansuna, you might wonder, bearing in mind that Sansuna in Maltese is the female version of Sansun – namely Samson, the Biblical figure known for his tremendous physical strength. Sansuna features as a strong giantess who inhabited Gozo in a long-forgotten past and whose primary occupation was to carry megaliths across the island."
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