Gog, from the land of Magog (or vice versa)

Unfortunately, we can not make the large explanation that this entry deserve, because of lack of time; only a few words, no more.

The legendary land of Magog and his king, Gog, are mentioned in the Bible (Old Testament), also in the Quran and in islamic tales, and (the most important) in the Alexander the Great legendarium. 

It is said that Gog was son of Japhet, one of the Noah´s sons whose descendants repopulated the earth after the Deluge; for ancient people, this dark kingdom, Magog (that is, literaly, land of Gog)), was inhabited by all sorts of barbarians who don´t follow the God´s Law - you know: they don´t respect hospitality, practicing canibalism, etc. -, and, for example, Flavius Josephus and other authorities interpreted that the offspring of Magog as the scythian people (nomads, id est, barbarians). Also, the historian Jordanes and the scholar Isidore of Seville connected the people of Magog to the goth people origins - and others found another connections to their own people´s origins...

By the passing of time, the perception of the legendary people of Magog as barbarians changed and saw them like cruel monsters; or saw the land of Magog as the last refuge to the pagan world who gradually dissapeared. In this manner, all the mythological creatures like fauns, cyclops, cynocephaly, blemmies or manticores, for example, could was found in the land of Magog.

The arabian tales narrated that Alexander the Great (or Dhul Qarnayn in other tales), during his years of conquest, arrived to the Magog land frontier, and horrified, he commanded the building of a great wall, in order to contain the monsters inside. It said that the wall will only fall with the coming of the Apocalypse...