Dagon

deity sea Syria corroborated · 3

Dagon is a significant deity in the religion and mythic beliefs of the people in the land of Canaan during approximately the first three millennia BCE.

↻ synthesized from 3 sources

When

First attested
3000 BCE
Attested period
-3000 – 2020
Historical notes
Attested in Canaan during the first three millennia BCE.

Relationships

sibling of
Baitylos
allied with
Enlil
syncretized with
Ba'al-Ḥammon

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Sources

encyclopedia (1)
  1. peer reviewed

Source passages

“They include lists of offerings to primary deities of the Canaanite pantheon (El, Baal and Dagon).”

#22641 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Dagon or Dagan (Sumerian: 𒀭𒁕𒃶, romanized: dda-gan; Phoenician: 𐤃𐤂𐤍, romanized: Dāgān) was a god worshipped in ancient Syria, across the middle of the Euphrates, with primary temples located in Tuttul and Terqa, though many attestations of his cult come from cities such as Mari and Emar as well”

#26026 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Dagon seems to have been a fish‑god with human head and hands; his worshippers wore fish‑skins.”

#44122 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-20b:free