Gog and Magog

Ya'juj and Ma'juj

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Gog and Magog (/ˈɡɒɡ ... ˈmeɪɡɒɡ/; Hebrew: גּוֹג וּמָגוֹג, romanized: Gōg ū-Māgōg) or Ya'juj and Ma'juj (Arabic: يَأْجُوجُ وَمَأْجُوجُ, romanized: Yaʾjūju wa-Maʾjūju) are a pair of names that appear in the Bible and the Qur'an, variously ascribed to individuals, tribes, or lands. In Ezekiel 38, Gog is an individual and Magog is his land. By the time of the New Testament's Revelation 20 (Revelation 20:8), Jewish tradition had long since changed Ezekiel's "Gog from Magog" into "Gog and Magog".

The Gog prophecy is meant to be fulfilled at the approach of what is called the "end of days", but not necessarily the end of the world. Jewish eschatology viewed Gog and Magog as enemies to be defeated by the Messiah, which would usher in the age of the Messiah. One view within Christianity is more starkly apocalyptic, making Gog and Magog allies of Satan against God at the end of the millennium, as described in the Book of Revelation.

A legend was attached to Gog and Magog by the time of the Roman period, that the Gates of Alexander were erected by Alexander the Great to repel the tribe. Romanized Jewish historian Josephus knew them as the nation descended from Magog the Japhetite, as in Genesis, and explained them to be the Scythians. In the hands of Early Christian writers they became apocalyptic hordes. Throughout the Middle Ages, they were variously identified as the Vikings, Huns, Khazars, Mongols or other nomads, or even the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.

The legend of Gog and Magog and the gates were also interpolated into the Alexander Romances. According to one interpretation, "Goth and Magothy" are the kings of the Unclean Nations whom Alexander drove through a mountain pass and prevented from crossing his new wall. Gog and Magog are said to engage in human cannibalism in the romances and derived literature. They have also been depicted on medieval cosmological maps, or mappae mundi, sometimes alongside Alexander's wall.

The conflation of Gog and Magog with the legend of Alexander and the Iron Gates was disseminated throughout the Near East in the early centuries of the Christian and Islamic era. They appear in the Quran in chapter Al-Kahf as Yajuj and Majuj, primitive and immoral tribes that were separated and barriered off by Dhu al-Qarnayn ("He of the Two Horns") who is mentioned in the Quran as a great righteous ruler and conqueror. Some contemporary Muslim historians and geographers regarded the Vikings as the emergence of Gog and Magog.

Jewish Texts Ezekiel

The Book of Ezekiel records a series of visions received by the prophet Ezekiel, a priest of Solomon's Temple, who was among the captives during the Babylonian exile. The exile, he tells his fellow captives, is God's punishment on Israel for turning away, but God will restore his people to Jerusalem when they return to him. After this message of reassurance, chapters 38–39, the Gog oracle, tell how Gog of Magog and his hordes will threaten the restored Israel but will be destroyed, after which God will establish a new Temple and dwell with his people for a period of lasting peace (chapters 40–48).

"Son of man, direct your face against Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince, leader of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy concerning him. Say: Thus said the Lord: Behold, I am against you, Gog, the prince, leader of Meshech and Tubal ... Persia, Cush and Put will be with you ... also Gomer with all its troops, and Beth Togarmah from the far north with all its troops—the many nations with you."

Internal evidence indicates that the Gog oracle was composed substantially later than the chapters around it. Of Gog's allies, Meshech and Tubal were 7th-century BC kingdoms in central Anatolia north of Israel, Persia towards the east, Cush (Ethiopia) and Put (Libya) to the south; Gomer is the Cimmerians, a nomadic people north of the Black Sea, and Beth Togarmah was on the border of Tubal.

The confederation thus represents a multinational alliance surrounding Israel. "Why the prophet's gaze should have focused on these particular nations is unclear", comments Biblical scholar Daniel I. Block, but their remoteness and reputation for violence and mystery possibly "made Gog and his confederates perfect symbols of the archetypal enemy, rising against God and his people".

One explanation is that the Gog alliance, a blend of the "Table of Nations" in Genesis 10 and Tyre's trading partners in Ezekiel 27, with Persia added, was cast in the role of end-time enemies of Israel by means of Isaiah 66:19, which is another text of eschatological foretelling.

Although the prophecy refers to Gog as an enemy in some future, it is not clear if the confrontation is meant to occur in a final "end of days" since the Hebrew term aḥarit ha-yamim (Hebrew: אחרית הימים) may merely mean "latter days", and is open to interpretation. Twentieth-century scholars have used the term to denote the eschaton in a malleable sense, not necessarily meaning final days, or tied to the Apocalypse. Still, the Utopia of chapters 40–48 can be spoken of in the parlance of "true eschatological character, given that it is a product of "cosmic conflict" described in the immediately preceding Gog chapters.

The Septuagint reads "Gog" instead of "Agag" in Numbers 24:7.

Over the next few centuries Jewish tradition changed Ezekiel's Gog from Magog into Gog and Magog. The process, and the shifting geography of Gog and Magog, can be traced through the literature of the period.

The 3rd book of the Sibylline Oracles, for example, which originated in Egyptian Judaism in the middle of the 2nd century BC, changes Ezekiel's "Gog from Magog" to "Gog and Magog", links their fate with up to eleven other nations, and places them "in the midst of Aethiopian rivers"; this seems a strange location, but ancient geography did sometimes place Ethiopia next to Persia or even India.

The passage has a highly uncertain text, with manuscripts varying in their groupings of the letters of the Greek text into words, leading to different readings; one group of manuscripts ("group Y") links them with the "Marsians and Dacians", in eastern Europe, amongst others.

Folkodia - The Fall Of The Magog

Lyrics

Alexander, the son of Zeus

Became a storm of flashing lances

That rained upon the beasts that dwelt

In the land of the Magog...

They who ate the flesh of man

And drank the blood of foal and child

Soon shall come to know the wrath

Of Alexander the divine!

To the east and far away

Rode our king that fated day:

In battle's clash with his phlanaxes

He bled dry the Magog...

Back into the underworld

Alexander pushed the Magog:

He build colossal gates of bronze

And a mighty, long wall:

The Caspian Gates he sealed

And all the ghoul-kings within:

Thus their evil was no more

As long as the gates hold...

Meri - Amen - Setep - En - Ra Arksantrs!

To the east and far away

Rode our king that fated day:

In battle's clash with his phlanaxes

He bled dry the Magog...

Meri - Amen - Setep - En - Ra Arksantrs!

Alexander, the son of Zeus

Became a storm of flashing lances

That rained upon the beasts that dwelt

In the land of the Magog...

The Caspian Gates he scaled

And all the ghoul-kings within:

Thus their evil was no more

As long as the gates hold...

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Magog

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Magog: A biblical place-name that typically occurs in conjunction with Gog. Magog is first referenced in Ezekiel 38 and 39, where the Son of Man is urged to “set thy face against Gog and the land of Magog.” Revelation 20:7 contains the following reference: “Satan shall be loosed out of his prison and shall go forth and seduce the nations which are over the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog: And shall gather them together to battle … ” Neither Ezekiel nor Revelation are very clear as to whether Gog and Magog are intended to represent a literal ruler and his lands or something more figurative.

The only thing that is obvious from the biblical passages is that Gog and Magog are opposed to the children of Israel. Later, in the Book of Revelation, this is taken to mean that they stand in opposition to the Church. Over time, both Gog and Magog have developed into individual demon names. They are typically depicted as giants. The names have made their way into the demonology of the grimoires, although they are often rendered Guth and Maguth or Magoth.

According to the Mathers translation of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage, Magog is one of the demonic servitors of the arch-fiends Asmodeus and Magoth (who is, himself, merely a variation on the name Magog).

Interestingly, the list of demons under Asmodeus and Magoth appears only in the fifteenth-century French manuscript who served as Mathers’ source and one other version of the Abramelin material kept at the Wolfenbuttel library in Germany. Magog, under the guise of Maguth, also appears in the Sworn Book of Honorius. In the Joseph Peterson translation of this work, Maguth is a minister of Formione, king of the spirits of Jupiter.

Here, he has the power to inspire positive emotions such as love, gladness, and joy. He can also help people to gain status in the eyes of others. When this version of the demon manifests, he takes on a body the color of the heavens. He is also connected with Thursdays and the north wind. Another variation on this name is Magot.

Saviour Machine - Gog: The Kings Of The North

Lyrics

Son of man, set thy face against him, Oh Gog, Oh Gog.

I will put hooks into your jaws and bring you forth.

I will bring you forth and your armies to be devoured.

Oh Gog, Oh Gog.

Oh Gog, I am against you.

Oh Gog, Die in this truth.

I will summon every kind ot terror to cleanse the land.

I will send the fire upon your nation of coveting hands.

Gather for the sacrificial feast that I prepare

And you shall eat the flesh and drink the blood of all the dead.

Oh Gog, I am against you.

Oh Gog, I will avenge you.

I will pour my spirit on the house of Israel

So that all the nations may know me,

When, through you, Oh Gog,

I vindicate my holiness before your eyes,

Before their eyes.

Oh Israel, I will defend you.

Oh Israel, I will avenge you.

Oh Gog, walk on fire, walk on fire.

Come into the land that is brought back from the sword.

And they shall ascend upon her like a storm.

A cloud to cover the land,

The sound is their command.

The spoil is oil, the spoil is oil.

The tyrant needs within her walls,

And as she bleeds the curtain falls.

Kings of the North, King of the North.

Rising from his lusting eyes

She is brought forth to the slaughter.

Gold has turned to black at last,

She is the crucible of war.

Decipher what isn't real,

For a thief comes only to steal.

The spoil is oil, the spoil is oil.

The iron curtain steals and seals,

The final dream, the killing fields.

The killing fields, The killing fields.