Magog Traditions

This colourful 16th Century parchment apparently depicts Alexander (with a bit of help!) building a wall against Gog and Magog. Variously giants or tyrants, Gog and Magog appear in numerous texts and mythologies.

For us, they are the names attached to the local "hills" (I know, I know, mere pimples on the landscape for real mountain people, but all that the flatlands of East Anglia have to offer...). We are, however, attaching a new tradition to the Magog name, one of ethical good taste, and we are guarding it jealously.

But here's some more food for thought. Could these same hills be the real site of Troy and gazed upon by fair Helen of Troy?
Iman Wilkens in the book "Where Troy once stood" argues that Troy was located on the Gog Magog Downs here in Cambridgeshire. Hmmmm.