Who in the world were Gog and Magog? In the Bible (Ezek. 38:39) Gog was King of Magog, a
northern land whose fierce hordes eventually invaded Israel. Also, in Revelation 20:7 Gog and Magog symbolize the enemies of the Kindgom of God, Gog being associated with Magog, a son of Japeth (Gen. 10:2).

In British legend, Gog and Magog are the sole survivors of a monstrous brood, children of the 33
"infamous" daughters of Roman Emperor Diocletian (AD 245-313). They murdered their husbands and were set adrift in a ship. Reaching Albion (an ancient name for Great Britain, from the Latin albus, meaning cliffs; Napolean referred to England as Albion Perfide or Perfidious Albion) they fell in with a number of demons. Their descendents were a race of giants eliminated by Brute (a mythical ancestor of the British) with the exception of Gog and Magog, who were brought in chains to London and sentenced to duty as porters at the royal palace, on the site of the London Guildhall, where their effigies have been since the reign of Henry V. There was, at one time, a large figure called Gogmagog cut into chalk near Cambridge. The hills nearby have been nicknamed Gog Magog Hills by Cambridge University students as well as local golfers. Most of this information can be found in Benet's Readers Encyclopedia, as well as other arcane and useful bits of literary lore.