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This article presents an index to the January 2005 issue of the periodical Archetypes and Motifs and Folklore and literature.

This section discusses mythological motifs used in the fight of the gods and giants. The war between the giants and the Olympian gods, the Gigantomachia, is presented as one of the fiercest of all battles in Greek mythology. Individual combats between gods and giants are unusually thrilling and full of suspense. In Brahmanical mythology, even though in their incarnations as humans gods may possess the ability to distinguish a giant from a human. The motif of the fight of gods and giants functions at a symbolic level, with gods representing good and giants evil.