Dagan
Canaanite · deity · cosmogonic · deity
Grain-god, senior deity ranked just below El; father of Baal-Hadad in the Ugaritic texts.
Children
Domains
- grain fertility
Powers
- Grant grain and abundant harvest to the land
Epithets
- 𐎁𐎓𐎍 𐎄𐎂𐎐
- dgn
Relations
Sources
- Ugaritic god-lists KTU 1.47, 1.118 (RS 20.024)
- Baal Cycle, KTU 1.2 I 19 (Baal 'son of Dagan')
- Philo of Byblos / Sanchuniathon (Dagon as discoverer of grain), via Eusebius