Anonymous ID: 8ef340 April 11, 2018, 10:28 p.m. No.1008558   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

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Dagon (Phoenician: ๐คƒ๐ค‚๐ค; Hebrew: ื“ึธึผื’ื•ึนืŸโ€Ž, Tib. Dฤแธกรดn) or Dagan (dda-gan ๐’€ญ๐’•๐’ƒถ[1]) is an ancient Mesopotamian Assyro-Babylonian and Levantine (Canaanite) deity. He appears to have been worshipped as a fertility god in Ebla, Assyria, Ugarit and among the Amorites. The Hebrew Bible mentions him as the national god of the Philistines with temples at Ashdod and elsewhere in Gaza.[2]

 

A long-standing association with the word for "fish" dรขg, perhaps going back to the Iron Age, has led to an interpretation as a "fish-god", and the association of "merman" motifs in Assyrian art (such as the "Dagon" relief found by Austen Henry Layard in the 1840s). The god's name was, however, more likely derived from a word for "grain", suggesting that he was in origin associated with fertility and agriculture.