“Ouranos inherited his father’s dominion and married his sister Ge, and from her produced four children: Elos, who is also Kronos, Baetylos, Dagon, who is Grain, and Atlas.
Ouranos' favorite mistress, who was pregnant, was also captured in the battle and Kronos gave her in marriage to Dagon.
"Dagon, since he discovered grain and plough, was called Zeus Ploughman.
"Before this, the god Taautos, imitating the visages of his fellow gods, Kronos, Dagon and the rest, engraved the sacred forms of the letters.
Biglino hints that as the story of Samson continues, another deity, Dagon, will be introduced as an Elohim, promising to explore this further in future discussions.
Significance: The Philistine god Dagon, worshipped in the temple that Samson destroyed, is mentioned multiple times in the Bible, emphasizing the cultural and religious conflict between the Israelites and the Philistines.
Source: The Bible, Judges 16:23: "Now the lords of the Philistines gathered to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god and to rejoice.
Fish-form / amphibious teachers: Oannes; Dagon in popular reception
Popular reception depicts Dagon as part man and part fish.
That fish-form image is the reason Dagon sits on this page.
They treat Dagan/Dagon as a major grain and land fertility deity of the middle Euphrates.
Dagon’s popular fish image keeps West Semitic reception on the map.
High-signal names on this page include Oannes, Dagon (popular fish reception), Atargatis, Matsya, Poseidon, Neptune, Amphitrite, Triton, Nammu, and Nun.
Many modern scholars derive the name from dagan (“grain”) and treat Dagan/Dagon as a grain and fertility deity.
She is listed as one of the four chief gods under Osiris (alongside Baal, Dagon, and Ashdod) who ruled over the region of Arabin'ya (the Middle East/Canaan area).
She is repeatedly grouped with Baal, Dagon, and Haughak as one of the false gods whose worship the Israelites were later pressured to accommodate (e.g., when the commandments were altered under Saul).
Ouranos married his sister Ge, and in Phoenician mythology, Ouranos had by Ge four sons: Ilus (El), who is called Chronos, Betylus (Beth-El), Dagon (signifying bread-corn), and Atlas (Tammuz?).
Dagon, after discovering bread-corn and the plow, was called Zeus-Arotrius.
Though this translation is understandable because chain mail would resemble scales, it obscures an important connection with the serpent (and possibly Dagon).
The scale armor may also connect Goliath with the Philistine god Dagon, who was possibly a god of the sea.
Like his god Dagon, Goliath fell facedown and his head was cut off (1 Samuel 17:49-51; cf.
The Book of the Laws of YHWH included undisguised narratives of elohim, Elyon the Captain, Shaddai the Destroyer, CH-CH the Dragon, Asherah, Baal, Dagon, the moloch child-sacrifices, and the whole kaleidoscopic memory of the seba hassamayim.
The familiar spirits now inspired Saul to change the words of the commandments to the LORD YOUR GOD, as a conciliatory stratagem to please the nations and tribes of people who worshiped Baal, Dagon, Ashtaroth, Haughak, and other Gods and Lords of the lower heavens.