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To: Yaacov who wrote (14124)	4/18/1998 7:02:00 AM
From: Jane Hafker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

Looking up Gog and Magog, the statue has now become two statues and my little set of encylopedias I keepfor reference work only says that the two statues were erected in 1400 in London, named for Gog and Magog. I never said the Romans built the statue. I said that I thought I had read of the Roman's finding an ancient statue. Apparently the World Book has the building of these statues in 1400, but again, that doesn't fit with what I thought I first saw. Tactitus is too early for the period I remember reading about. It had to be Herodatus. I believe he also was quite fascinateed by the Scythians, and without him, perhaps we would not have realized "they disappeared, probably by intermarriage." And I don't study the Torah, I just have spent a lot of time in early genesis and see more and more there everytime I get back into it. The Lord apparently somehow told me that He wouldn't have bothered to put all those millions of names and who married who if it wasn't for good reason. I have already seen enough in my very sparce studies to understand that. So, I'm guilty of confusing the time the statues were placed in history, and certainly finding them existant in Gaul in 400 is much spookier and interesting than 1400, which is easier to understand. But you are most certainly correct that the Romans in the first century would hnot have erected a statue to Gog, and the thought is bizarre. Tacitus wrote in the first century. It was Herodatus obviously who preserved the ancient Celts in writing from what he saw. They were amazing people, actually. I will confess to the crime of tracing history to a rather advanced degree for someone who doesn't teach history, but I will not confess to the crime of presuming to be a student of the Torah and mixing it up with history and making my life too complicated as a result. I am not a student of the Torah, I just got into Genesis 1-15 for awhile, and could study the offshoots of what I saw there probably another 200 years and still not find all the puzzle pieces. These studies don't "make my life too complicated". It is just a lot of intense fun for me to research history, and one I do not have the luxury of doing very often. That's why I mentioned the thread to you, to see if such a thread would be of interest to you also. I have found three people in my life interested in Gog and Magog and the sons of Noah in any way shape or form, and only on SI and very recently. My motives were quite harmless. Wasn't trying to get another argument going here, or have you think I just make a bunch of stuff up for fun, either one. :)