Dagan

Canaanite · deity · cosmogonic · deity

Grain-god, senior deity ranked just below El; father of Baal-Hadad in the Ugaritic texts.

Children

Baal

Domains

grain fertility

Powers

Grant grain and abundant harvest to the land

Epithets

𐎁𐎓𐎍 𐎄𐎂𐎐
dgn

Relations

equated with: Enlil
equated with: Kumarbi

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

Open in the interactive app →