By Bohdan Lysytsia for VT Dagon (Dagan) – the West Semitic god, the national god of the Philistines after their conquest of Canaan. It is mentioned in Akkadian sources and texts of Mari, Ugarit and Ebla. Outwardly, Dagon resembles the hero of Oannes, who, according to the Sumerians, is described as a creature with a […]