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Dagon was an ancient northwest Semitic god worshiped by the early Amorites and by the people of Ebla and Ugarit. He was also a major god, perhaps the chief god, of the biblical Philistines. Mythological sources on Dagon are far from consistent. The prevailing view today is that Dagon was a fertility deity related to grain and agriculture.
DAGON (Heb. דָּגוֹן, Akk. Dagān ), the Syrian and Canaanite god of seed, vegetation, and crops. Dagon first appears as an important and widely worshiped deity – but not as a god of crops – in documents of the dynasty of *Akkad (23 rd century B.C.E.), which indicate that his cult was well established in the middle and upper regions ...
The weather kept fair, and for uncounted days I drifted aimlessly beneath the scorching sun; waiting either for some passing ship, or to be cast on the shores of some habitable land. But neither ship nor land appeared, and I began to despair in my solitude upon the heaving vastnesses of unbroken blue. The change happened whilst I slept.
November, 1919. "Dagon" is a short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft. It was written in July 1917 and is one of the first stories that Lovecraft wrote as an adult. It was first published in the November 1919 edition of The Vagrant (issue #11). Dagon was later published in Weird Tales in October 1923. [2]
Nov 22, 2016 · Pronunciation: dey-gon. Origin: Philistine. Role: Fertility. Symbols: Fish, grain. Wife: Nanshe. Who Is Dagon? The Philistines, a community of Canaanites, were an Aegean people who settled on the southern coast of the area we now know as Israel during the 12th century B.C.
Oct 29, 2023 · Dagon was the Semitic god of agriculture, crops, and the fertility of the land. His worship spread through several regions of the ancient Middle East. In Hebrew and Ugaritic, his name stands for grain or corn, symbolizing his tight connections to the harvests. Some sources propose that Dagon was the inventor of the plow.
Dagon. DAGON dā’ gŏn ( דָּגﯴן, H1837, from דָּגָן, H1841, “grain”). The god Dagon is associated in the OT with the Philistines ( 1 Chron 10:10 ), particularly in the centers Gaza ( Judg 16:23) and Ashdod ( 1 Sam 5:2-7 ). For a brief period the Ark of God was captured by the Philistines and deposited in Dagon’s temple in Ashdod ( 1 Sam 5 ).
