Dagon
deityDagon philistaeus—The Fish-God of the ancient Philistine legend
Fig. 17
Plate wanting.Withdrawn from the folio, or never engraved.
Dagon, the Fish-God of ancient Philistine legend, is invoked by the narrator when questioning a celebrated ethnologist, hinting obliquely at the identity of the monstrous entity he witnessed.
Dagon is referenced only briefly, as the subject of an ancient Philistine legend the narrator raised with a celebrated ethnologist, who identified him as 'the Fish-God.' No further details of Dagon's nature or history are given in the account.
Sources
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“the ancient Philistine legend of Dagon, the Fish-God”
Dagon (1919)