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Dagan

 
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n. Mythology
The Babylonian god of the earth.

[Akkadian.]


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West Semitic god of crop fertility, father of Baal. He was the mythical inventor of the plow. He had an important temple at Ras Shamra and at sanctuaries in Palestine, where he was known as a god of the Philistines. At Ras Shamra he was second only to El, though Baal assumed his functions as vegetation god by c. 1500 BC.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: (Mesopotamia) god of agriculture and earth; counterpart of Phoenician Dagon

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