The jentilak (singular: jentil, meaning A Gentile refers to a non-Israelite; the word is derived from the Latin term gens (meaning clan or a group of families) and is often employed in the plural. ...gentile from Latin _ Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ...Latin gentilis) are a race of For other meanings of the word giant, see Giant (disambiguation) Giants are humanoid creatures of prodigious size and strength, a type of legendary monster that appear in the tales of many different races and cultures. ...giants in This article is about the Basque people. ...Basque This article is about a system of myths. ...mythology.

The jentilak were believed to have lived alongside the Basque people. They were so tall that they could walk in the sea and threw rocks from one mountain to another. This stone throwing has led to several tales and explanations for ancient stone buildings and large isolated rocks. Even the Basque ball game, Pelota (in Basque and Catalan, pilota; in French pelote, from Latin pila) is a name for a variety of court sports played with a ball using ones hand, a racket, a wooden bat (pala), or a basket propulsor, against a wall (frontón in Spanish, frontoi in Basque, front...Pelota, is ascribed to these stone_throwers. The tradition lives on in the Basque power games of stone lifting and throwing. Some attributed to the jentilak the defeat of This article is about historical/legendary figure, for other uses, see Roland (disambiguation). ...Roland in the The Roncevaux Pass (Roncesvaux in English, Roncesvalles in Spanish, Orreaga in Basque) is the site of a famous battle in 778 in which Hroudland (later changed to Roland), prefect of Brittany March was defeated by the Basques. ...Battle of Roncevaux, where the Basques defeated the Frankish army by throwing rocks on them. The giants were believed to have created the The Neolithic, (Greek neos=new, lithos=stone, or New Stone Age) is traditionally the last part of the stone age. ...neolithic monuments and T shaped Hunebed D27 in Borger_Odoorn, Netherlands, recent. ...dolmens found around the This article is about the traditional Basque domain. ...Basque Country.

They also were said to have invented Metallurgy is a domain of materials science and of materials engineering that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements and their mixtures, which are called alloys. ...metallurgy and the The article is about the tool. ...saw and first grew Species T. monococcum T. spelta References:   ITIS 42236 2002_09_22 Wheat (Triticum spp) is a grass that is cultivated around the world. ...wheat, teaching humans to farm. However, they were unwilling to move to the valleys from the mountains, with a certain unwillingness to progress. They disappeared into the earth under a dolmen in the Arratzaren valley in Navarra is the Spanish name for Navarre (Basque: Nafarroa), an ancient kingdom in the Pyrenees, and now a province and an autonomous community in Spain. ...Navarra when a portentous luminous cloud _ perhaps a star _ appeared, said to have heralded the birth of Christ, from the Greek Χριστός, or Khristós, means anointed, and is equivalent to the Hebrew term Messiah. ...Christ (Kixmi) and the end of the jentilak age. Other stories say the jentilak threw themselves from a mountain. Only Olentzero is a Basque Christmas tradition. ...Olentzero remained, a giant who appears at Joseph and Mary with baby Jesus, at the first Christmas Christmas (literally, the Mass of Christ) is a holiday in the Christian calendar, usually observed on December 25, which celebrates the birth of Jesus. ...Christmas and is reproduced as straw dolls.

There are many structures and places around the Basque Country with jentil in their name, generally referring to pagan or ancient places, supposedly built by the jentilak. Dolmens are jentilarri or jentiletxe, caves can be jentilzulo or jentilkoba.