Gog kaj Magog

Gog kaj Magog (Ŝablono:IPAc-en; Ŝablono:Lang-he-n; Gog u-Magog; en araba: يَأْجُوجُ وَمَأْجُوجُ; Yaʾjūj wa-Maʾjūj) aperas en la Hebrea Biblio, ofte konata kiel Malnova Testamento, kaj en Korano 21:96 kiel individuoj, triboj aŭ landoj. En Libro de Jeĥezkel 38, Gog estas individuo kaj Magog estas lia lando; en Genezo 10 Magog estas homo, sed Gog ne estas menciita; kaj jarcentoj poste la tradicio de judoj ŝanĝis la "Gog el Magog" de Jeĥezkel en "Gog kaj Magog", kiu estas la formo laŭ kiu ili aperas en la kristana Nova Testamento nome en la Apokalipso de Johano, kvankam tie ili estas popoloj anstataŭ individuoj.

La homoj de Gog kaj Magog estas formurigitaj fare de la trupoj de Aleksandro.Ŝablono:Right

Legendo estia ligita al 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, and throughout the Medieval period variously identified as the Vikings, Huns, Khazars, Mongols, Turanians 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. In one version, "Goth and Magothy" (that means Muralla in Maranaw people) are kings of the Unclean Nations, driven beyond a mountain pass by Alexander, and blocked from returning by 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 (Arabic: يَأْجُوجُ وَمَأْجُوجُ; Yaʾjūj wa-Maʾjūj), primitive and immoral tribes that were separated and barriered off by Dhul-Qarnayn (possessor of the Two Horns), who is mentioned in the Qu'ran as a great righteous ruler and conqueror. Many modern Muslim historians and geographers regarded the Vikings as the emergence of Gog and Magog. In contemporary times they remain associated with apocalyptic thinking, especially in Israel and the Muslim world.