Whether or not this is a depiction of ancient gods as giants, or just adults and an oddly proportioned child...

You cannot just take everything ever written or depicted literally.

The Sumerian list of their supposed ancient kings goes back nearly a million years. They claim to have kings that reigned for thousands and tens of thousands of years, similar to how many of Adam's descendants lived hundreds of years.

Like, when you read up on Egyptian beliefs about the dead, do you think that is evidence that Anubis is actually real, or Ra or Osiris or Isis? Do you think that Medusa and the Minotaur are actually real from Greek Mythology, or that even the Roman myth of how Rome was founded is literally true?

Apparently this is how many people do actually think.

King Arthur? Herakles?

Totally Real.

Hamlet? Critias?

100% historically accurate, down to every word.

Even fucking Herodotus, the 'Father of History' has been determined to have in many cases just repeated tall tales and exaggerations he heard.

It's like believing Paul Bunyan was actually real, actually had a big blue ox.