Magog... the mystery...

[visionary]

Magog— Most probably a teutonic people, living to the north of the Holy Land. Some sources identify Magog with Germania (Targum on 1 Chronicles 1:5) Others identify them with the Goths (Megillah 1:9). These were a teutonic people who migrated to Scythia, in what is now Southern Russia. Linguistically, the Scythians were related to the Iranians, and hence, to the Persians and the Medes. It is significant that there was a Persian Tribe know as the Germanians (Herodotus 1:125). Other sources note that Magog may denote Mongols whose very name may be a corruption of Magog. Arab writers referred to the Great Wall of China as the "Wall of Al Magog" (Kesseth Hasofer, P. 112 A). http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/4577/Ezk.html

In character, they would be what I picture coming up against God. Violent, barabarious to the extreme, blood thirsty, psychopathic socialpathic, wearing rags, carrying anything that can be used as a weapon, in full rage, with no sanity left.

[visionary]

More from the same website....GOG — As a people they are made-up of the Iranians, Persians, Medes and the Scythians of southern Russia. We know the first three, but the Scythians were a bizarre and savage race. They would drink the blood of the first enemy killed; they carried the heads of their victims to their chiefs; they scalped their enemies and used these scalps as "napkins"; they used the skins of their victims to cover their quivers; they drank from the skulls of their victims; they practiced blood brotherhood by drinking each other's blood mixed with wine. The Scthians "bathed" in the vapor from heated hemp seeds. When their king died, they sacrificed one of his concubines and several servants. The Scthians were not a nice bunch and were among the earliest mounted archers in antiquity. They could shoot as easily with the left hand as with the right and Lucian relates that while galloping they could hit a moving beast or bird. These nomadic tribes settled in the fertile area of the Ukraine north of the Black Sea, and to the east of the Caspian Sea, possibly even to the Great Wall of China.

B. MAGOG— Or Land of Gog, Magog is the same with the additional thought, of "means", or "place of extension", or lands of Gog (Magog). One thing is clear, he is the "head or chief," the instigator and is the one God is speaking to.