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Peer Review: A1124001 - Dagon
Tony C Started conversation Jul 27, 2003
Entry: Dagon - A1124001
Author: Tony C - U235771
Please feel free to comment on my small Guide entry on the fish-god, Dagon. All comments, as usual, will be welcomed and incorporated into the final version.
Tony C
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Uncle Heavy [sic] Posted Jul 27, 2003
this looks interesting. there may be a little more to say on him though. i have some ugaritic course texts,a nd i may lookhim up in the indexes...
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Bels - an incurable optimist. A1050986 Posted Jul 28, 2003
You might be interested to know that Dagon features quite prominently in the opera 'Samson and Delilah' by Saint-Saëns. There are scenes within the temple of Dagon in which his priests invoke the deity to reveal himself. And at the very end of the opera the priests and the Philistine people are all crying out 'Glory to Dagon' as Samson brings the temple crashing down about their ears.
One thing I found particularly interesting about Dagon is his relationship, via the Roman goddess Cybele, to the modern Christian priestly vestments. See in particular http://www.aloha.net/~mikesch/dagon.htm
Bels
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The Punctuation Police Posted Jul 29, 2003
I'm confused! In the title, you describe Dagon as the Chief God of the Philistines, but then you say he was worshiped by the Canaanites and that the Philistines invaded their land, but also the Israelites invaded. Are the Philistines and the Israelites the same or twoo different people? Where is Canaan?
Oh and by the way, I think it should be "Semitic" rather than "Semetic".
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Zarquon's Singing Fish! Posted Jul 29, 2003
Agree with the comments above, which should be incorporated into the body of the entry.
PS: on-site my son is known as little . Maybe I should rename him Dagon? 
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Uncle Heavy [sic] Posted Jul 29, 2003
dagon was many things. i doubt little was one of them 
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Zarquon's Singing Fish! Posted Jul 29, 2003
'The name Dagon is derived from the Semetic root, dag and means, quite simply, little fish.'
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Uncle Heavy [sic] Posted Jul 29, 2003
yes./ but he was a wacking great weather god. weather gods tend to be mighty and have a lot of powerful storms to hit people with. he also wasnt literally a fish. i have the original texts to rpove it if you like
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Uncle Heavy [sic] Posted Jul 30, 2003
nobly said
i know many a hootooer who would have argued to the bitter end
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Zarquon's Singing Fish! Posted Jul 30, 2003
I'm not one to say I'm right if I discover I'm wrong and I hope I'm not too proud to admit when I'm wrong.
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Zarquon's Singing Fish! Posted Jul 30, 2003
Or to change my mind!
BTW, UH, did you look up your Ugaric texts? Have you anything to add?
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Uncle Heavy [sic] Posted Jul 31, 2003
bah, ok i will. i suspect he only makes a toekn appearance in those texts. i have read commentaries with chapters on him. i believe he is Baal's father in some cultures.
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Zarquon's Singing Fish! Posted Jul 31, 2003
Excellent! 
I'm sure the entry will benefit from it.
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Uncle Heavy [sic] Posted Aug 5, 2003
it seems i dont have it in my books. if you have a good library near you, i can tell you some boks which would have him in
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Cyzaki Posted Sep 1, 2003
I think you should change the title to what the first header says and get rid of the first header - that would make things clearer and a bit tidier.
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Zarquon's Singing Fish! Posted Sep 1, 2003
Tony, are you going to do more research on this one? Shame UH can't find his sources.
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Peer Review: A1124001 - Dagon
- 1: Tony C (Jul 27, 2003)
- 2: Uncle Heavy [sic] (Jul 27, 2003)
- 3: Bels - an incurable optimist. A1050986 (Jul 28, 2003)
- 4: The Punctuation Police (Jul 29, 2003)
- 5: Uncle Heavy [sic] (Jul 29, 2003)
- 6: Zarquon's Singing Fish! (Jul 29, 2003)
- 7: Uncle Heavy [sic] (Jul 29, 2003)
- 8: Zarquon's Singing Fish! (Jul 29, 2003)
- 9: Uncle Heavy [sic] (Jul 29, 2003)
- 10: Zarquon's Singing Fish! (Jul 29, 2003)
- 11: Uncle Heavy [sic] (Jul 30, 2003)
- 12: Zarquon's Singing Fish! (Jul 30, 2003)
- 13: Zarquon's Singing Fish! (Jul 30, 2003)
- 14: Uncle Heavy [sic] (Jul 31, 2003)
- 15: Zarquon's Singing Fish! (Jul 31, 2003)
- 16: Tony C (Aug 5, 2003)
- 17: Uncle Heavy [sic] (Aug 5, 2003)
- 18: Cyzaki (Sep 1, 2003)
- 19: Zarquon's Singing Fish! (Sep 1, 2003)
- 20: Uncle Heavy [sic] (Sep 1, 2003)
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