entities: ENT_CAN_DAGON

The core table — every entity in the database, spanning gods, angels, demons, aeons, prophets, saints, heroes, spirits, monsters, personified abstractions, cosmological realms, and ritual categories. Use entity_class to filter by kind (19 controlled values: deity, angel, demon, aeon, sefirah, spirit, monster, hero, etc.). category is free text (1,148 values) and is not a reliable filter. Use tradition to filter by tradition. The short_note column contains a scholarly description with source citations.

Data license: MIT · Data source: jebboone/deitydb

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entity_id canonical_name greek_name tradition entity_type category primary_domains tags cult_scope primary_period evidence_confidence review_status inclusion_basis earth_association_score chthonic_flag serpent_flag short_note entity_class
ENT_CAN_DAGON Dagon   Canaanite/Ugaritic Grain/sky deity Fertility Deity grain; agriculture; fertility; rain; underworld; Philistine cult       A           Major West Semitic deity; possibly the father of Baal in Ugaritic texts (KTU 1.5 VI: "Baal son of Dagon"); grain deity whose name may derive from Semitic dagan (grain) though also connected to daganu (cloud/rain); worshipped from Ebla (c. 2400 BCE) and Mari (c. 1800 BCE) through Ugarit and into Philistine-period Ashdod and Gaza (Judges 16:23; 1 Samuel 5); the most geographically widespread West Semitic deity before the Hellenistic period deity

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