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Dagon

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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The national god of the Philistines, represented as half-man, sometimes half-woman, and half-fish; appears to have been a symbol to his worshippers of the fertilising power of nature, familiar to them in the fruitfulness of the sea.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Dagon'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​d/dagon.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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