Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

THE NATIONS OF GOG AND MAGOG. 23
found in the book of Deyasyas, who speaks therein
concerning [their] kingdoms that they are twenty-
two in number, that is to say, Magug' (Magog), Gog,Magog,
and Yagug (Gog), and Nuyal, and Yual, and Aknuk, '"'
and Asakibir, and Karyawiyan, and Kuerbe, and
Lakan, and DaHan, and Kartan, and Raban, and
Zanoben, and Dull, and Marki," and Mayawiyan,
and Kalbatas, and Manza', andYoman, and Kaslewi,
and Malki;3 these are all their kingdoms. And
the Two-horned spake unto them, saying, "Tell
"me concerning these nations, and about their
"apparel, and of their manners and customs; surely
"they live after the manner of men?" And the
men answered him, saying, "They are men with
"blue eyes'* and red [hair], but [p. 132] their women
"are not like unto our women who have two
"breasts apiece, for they have only one apiece, The women
"and they are much more powerful than their"
"husbands. Each one of these women has a
"number of knives hung upon her hands and neck,
KaiajaopTopoi, 'l^xavTo-nobeq, Kaji-naveq, Zaiudv&peig.'lTTTTuen;,
'Eirafipopoi. For lists of the names in Syriac see the Syriac
version, p. 150, and Budge, Book of the Bee, p. 128.
^ Some think that Gog and Magog were two nations des-
cended from Japhet, the son of Noah, and others that they
were descended from the Ten Tribes who worshipped the
Golden Calf. See Yule, Marco Polo, vol. i. p. 56.
^ Read aoC*^ :
3 The text only gives twenty-one names.
^ Compare Lidzbarski in Bezold's Zeitschrifi, vol. VIII.
p. 302, 1. 12 f.