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Updated: June 28, 2025
Inscriptions from Southern Arabia have already shown us that there too Sin was known and adored. Dagon, again, was another god who had his first home in Babylonia. The name is of Sumerian origin, and he was associated with Ami, the god of the sky.
"Do the Phoenicians pray also?" thought the prince. "Unable to render any service," continued Dagon, "I will give good counsel at least. There is here in Pi-Bast a renowned Syrian, Prince Hiram, an old man, wise and tremendously wealthy. Summon him, Erpatr, ask of him a hundred talents; perhaps he will be able to gratify thee."
Bomilcar, Himilcar, Abd-Melkarth, and the like. Dagon appears in scripture only as a Philistine god, which would not prove him to have been acknowledged by the Phoenicians; but as Philo of Byblus admits him among the primary Phoenician deities, making him a son of Uranus, and a brother of Il or Kronis, it is perhaps right that he should be allowed a place in the Phoenician list.
Antiochus Makes War Against Hyrcanus And Afterwards Makes A League With Him. So Ptolemy retired to one of the fortresses that was above Jericho, which was called Dagon.
I haven't seen a white elephant yet, but in the Shwe Dagon Temple I found a lively eight-months-old youngster, an orphan from Mandalay, that could eat bananas twice as fast as my Burmese boy-guide and I could peel them, and the boy-guide in question assured me that he will turn white by the time he is two or three years old. Which would be very interesting if true, but I fear it isn't.
Lawrence Newt replied by looking round the room as if searching for some one, and then saying: "I don't see your daughter, Mrs. Witchet, here to-night, Mr. Van Boozenberg." "No," growled the papa, and moved on to talk with Mrs. Dagon.
"Oh no, dear Aunt, only into their beds and that not until they are superannuated, which, you know, old people never find out for themselves," answered Fanny, smiling sweetly and calmly upon Mrs. Dagon. "What a country it is, Aunt!" said Mrs. Newt, looking at Fanny with a kind of admiration. "How the young people take every thing into their own hands! Dear me! dear me! how they do rule us!"
Their speech was somewhat unconnected, but natural enough in the circumstances. Compare the whole account with the narrative in I Samuel v. about the Ark and Dagon, that "twice-battered god of Palestine." "Entered the doctrine or path." It is not quite clear whether the author had in mind here Central India as a whole, which I think he had, or only Kosala, the part of it where he then was.
A curious silence follows this effusion. Corlaer Van Boozenberg is slightly flown with wine. Hal Battlebury, who sits near him, looks troubled. Herbert Octoyne and Mellish Whitloe exchange meaning glances. The young ladies Mrs. Plumer is the only matron, except Mrs. Dagon, who sits below smile pleasantly. Sligo Moultrie eats grapes.
I not care? Hiram ruined two ships of mine and deprived me of great profit; still, when Phoenicia is in question, I sit in one room with him." "For Thou didst think to talk with him of cheating some one," said Rabsun. "As much as Thou didst think of dying, fool!" retorted Dagon. "Am I a child? do I not understand that when Hiram comes to Memphis he need not come for traffic? O Thou Rabsun!
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