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There are several accounts regarding the identity of "Gog" and "Magog": | There are several accounts regarding the identity of "Gog" and "Magog": | ||
* '''Name of a person''': According to some sources, "Gog" and "Magog" was the name of a person.<ref>Ezekiel, 38:2-3.</ref> In the [[Old Testament]], Magog is the second son of Japheth who was one of [[Noah | * '''Name of a person''': According to some sources, "Gog" and "Magog" was the name of a person.<ref>Ezekiel, 38:2-3.</ref> In the [[Old Testament]], Magog is the second son of Japheth who was one of [[Noah]]'s (a) sons.<ref>Genesis, 10.</ref> | ||
* '''A geographical location''': According to some religious sources, "Gog" and "Magog" does not refer to a person, a tribe, or a number of tribes; rather it refers to a geographical region.<ref>Ezekiel, 38:2-3.</ref> | * '''A geographical location''': According to some religious sources, "Gog" and "Magog" does not refer to a person, a tribe, or a number of tribes; rather it refers to a geographical region.<ref>Ezekiel, 38:2-3.</ref> | ||
* '''Tribes residing in northern Asia''': In Islamic sources, "Gog" and "Magog" refers to tribes residing in northern Asia who were engaged in murder and plunder of the possessions of other tribes. According to these sources, the area of their residence ranged from northeastern Asia, that is, [[Tibet]] and [[China]], to Arctic Ocean, and from the west to [[Turkmenistan]]. Thus, some people take the word, "Gog" and "Magog", to be derived from the Chinese word, "Mongok" or "Monchok", which has transformed into "Ya'juj wa Ma'juj" in Hebrew and Arabic, and into "Gog" and "Magog" in Greek.<ref>Ḥusaynī Ṭihrānī, ''Maʿād shināsī'', vol. 4, p. 86-87.</ref> | * '''Tribes residing in northern Asia''': In Islamic sources, "Gog" and "Magog" refers to tribes residing in northern Asia who were engaged in murder and plunder of the possessions of other tribes. According to these sources, the area of their residence ranged from northeastern Asia, that is, [[Tibet]] and [[China]], to Arctic Ocean, and from the west to [[Turkmenistan]]. Thus, some people take the word, "Gog" and "Magog", to be derived from the Chinese word, "Mongok" or "Monchok", which has transformed into "Ya'juj wa Ma'juj" in Hebrew and Arabic, and into "Gog" and "Magog" in Greek.<ref>Ḥusaynī Ṭihrānī, ''Maʿād shināsī'', vol. 4, p. 86-87.</ref> | ||