Everything you thought you knew about Dagon is wrong. He wasn´t a Philistine god, but a Mesopotamian one. There is no evidence outside the Bible that the Philistines ever worshipped him, and the Biblical stories are too late to be reliable sources.
Oh, and he wasn´t a merman either. That´s *much* later Christian and Jewish polemics, popularized during the 19th century. In Mesopotamia, Dagon was always depicted as a humanoid deity...
HP Lovecraft har skrivit en skräcknovell med Dagon i huvudrollen. https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/d.aspx
ReplyDeleteVisst brukar Dagon förknippas med Molok i populärkulturen? Kanske finns en koppling här...
ReplyDeleteHa ha, ja, nu har jag läst den. En ganska så typisk Lovecraft-story.
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