GOG, a hostile power that is to manifest itself in the world immediately before the end of things (Ezek. xxxviii. sq., Rev. xx.) . Magog who is joined with Gog in the latter passage is the name of Gog's origin in the former. In Gen. x. 2 (and Ezek. xxxviii. 2) Magog appears to represent a locality in Armenia.
The legends attached to the gigantic effigies (dating from 1708 and replacing those destroyed in the Great Fire) of Gog and Magog in Guildhall, London, are of unknown date. According to the Recuyell des Izistoires de Troye, Gog and Magog were the sur vivors of a race of giants descended from the thirty-three wicked daughters of Diocletian; after their brethren had been slain by Brute and his companions, Gog and Magog were brought to Lon don (Troy-novant) and compelled to officiate as porters at the gate of the royal palace. Effigies similar to the present existed in London as early as the time of Henry V.