Dagon: The Fish God that Wasn't

We look at Dagon, the most famous merfolk god but... What if he was never really seen as an aquatic god or a merman until recently? If so how did the bronze and iron age people who worshipped him see him and how did he end up a famous lord of the dark and alien deeps? Join us as we dive in and find out.
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DAGON: THE FISH GOD?
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New International Bible 1 Samuel Chapter 5: www.biblegatew...
Towards the image of Dagon, the god of the Philistines: www.persee.fr/...
A Bridge through Chaos: The Miltonic in “Dagon” and Lovecraft’s Greater Cthulhu Mythos:
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JOHN MILTON'S INFLUENCE ON H.P. LOVECRAFT Jarod K. Anderson
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[@mrlearningscholar4078]

I'm a catholic. We are always taught to study the Bible, with history. Not just reading it. Thanks that helped me understand what Dagon was

[@GazBC4U]

420th subscriber ✌🏿

[@braedanmckee5063]

cool vod bro I liked it a lot

[@zainroshaan]

Damn nice man ❤

[@herbertgearing1702]

Milton was the prophet of craps, he wrote " pair of dice lost".

[@rbidwell1981]

So funny story I had a friend and him and his wife were unable to have a God of their own. So they adopted one. The only thing is they didn't tell me he didn't know he was adopted so when I came over to visit, after not having seen them for a while, I kind of let it the whole adoption thing slip. Yeah things got a little ugly. I haven't talked to them since.

[@originsdecoded3508]

One of the most common gods of ancient time for some reason all attribute to the ability of being able to influence weather and the fertility of the land, from south-north america, to europe, egypt, south and north africa, japan, china, etc. I wonder if this has anything to do with ancient past weather manipulation by the advanced ancients who seemed like gods in the eyes of commoner's and peasants.

[@krinsbez]

OK, let's see how my running commentary gets lost this time! 0:23 I, meanwhile, know him from the Bible. ; 0:45 yep, that's me. ; 1:00 say whatnow? ; 1:28 I don't know why this guy doesn't get more media about him, since he has a cool name and is the first guy in recorded history to try to take over the world ; 2:10 huh ; 2:20 you really ought to show the text in those cases ; 2:33 seriously, is there ANY deity ever the Ancient Greeks encountered that they didn't either incorporate into their pantheon wholesale or declare was just the local name for someone already in their pantheon? Not that it's unique to them, of course, but wow ; 2:49 hah! ; 3:40 Huh ; 4;27 Ooooh ; 5:15 always nice to have ; 5:30 yeah that's not what it's for 5:45 Great minds! ; 6:19 etc. etc. etc. ; 7:19 context is always good ; 8:50 I like details, though. ; 9:10 Thank you for stating which translation you're using. Myself, I always prefer ArtScroll but that's an explictly an Orthodox Jewish version so probably wouldn't work for you ; 14:33 HAH! ; 15:20 Yeah, that's what I learned in Yeshiva Day School ; 16:35 well that's a left turn ; 16:55 once again! ; 18:15 huh, Cromwell had something in common with a Pope ; 19:20 I didn't know that! ; 22:21 Pop culture is weird. 22:35 I agree on both counts.