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Gogmagog (folklore)
Gogmagog – also Goemagot, Goemagog or Gogmagoc – was a legendary giant in British folklore. According to the 12th Century ''Historia Regum Britanniae'' ("The History of The Kings of Britain") by Geoffrey of Monmouth, Gogmagog was a giant inhabitant of Albion, and was thrown off a cliff during a wrestling match with Corineus who was a companion of Brutus of Troy. Gogmagog was believed to be the last of the Giants to inhabit the land of Albion.〔McNab, Chris (2006), (''Mythical Monsters: The scariest creatures from legends, books, and movies'' ) Tangerine Press, ISBN 978-0439854795 (pp. 11-12)〕 The name "Gogmagog" is often connected to the biblical characters Gog and Magog;〔English Pageantry: An Historical Outline, Volume 1; Harvard University Press, 1918, page 59〕 however Manley Pope, author of an 1862 English translation of the Welsh chronicle ''Brut y Brenhinedd'' (itself a translation of Monmouth's "Historia Regum Britanniae") argued that it was a corruption of ''Gawr Madoc'' (Madoc the Great).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Chronicle of the Early Britons )〕
==Guardians of London==
The Lord Mayor's account of Gog and Magog says that the Roman Emperor Diocletian had thirty-three wicked daughters. He found thirty-three husbands for them to curb their wicked ways; they chafed at this, and under the leadership of the eldest sister, Alba, they murdered their husbands. For this crime they were set adrift at sea; they washed ashore on a windswept island, which they named "Albion"—after Alba. Here they coupled with demons and gave birth to a race of giants, whose descendants included Gog and Magog.〔(Gog and Magog ) at the Lord Mayor's Show: official website. Retrieved August 3, 2007.〕 The effigies of two giants were recorded in 1558 at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth I and were described as "Gogmagot the Albion" and "Corineus the Britain". These, or similar figures, made of "wickerwork and pasteboard" made regular appearances in the Lord Mayor's Show thereafter, although they became known as Gog and Magog over the years. New figures were carved from pine in 1709 by Captain Richard Saunders and displayed in the Guildhall until 1940 when they were destroyed in an air-raid; they were replaced by David Evans in 1953.〔Public sculpture of the city of London, Philip Ward-Jackson, Liverpool University Press 2003, ISBN 0-85323-977-0〕
Images of Gog and Magog (depicted as giants) are carried by Lord Mayors of the City of London in a traditional procession in the Lord Mayor's Show each year on the second Saturday of November.
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