This post is about a God called Dagon which was a pagan God of the Canaanite's. Although I really have no true desire to discuss any other God other than Yahweh, I do think it is important for people to know a couple of things about this false deity. Dagon was worshiped by the Canaanite's in areas of the Mediterranean. I know for sure he was worshiped by the Philistines in the area that we know as Gaza today, and also in Assyria during the captivity of the House of Isreael.
While in Assyria, it is my belief that the God Dagon may have played a role in the story of "Jonah and the fish". It is possible, when Jonah was spit upon the land from the fish, the way that he arrived may have had impact if the people of Assyria as they are use to seeing their God represented by a fish. It is possible that they may have thought Jonah was to take the place of Dagon? It is my opinion this could have quite possibly have been the way that God delivered the message to Nineveh. The Bible records that all received his message in Nineveh, and converted. I am talking about the house of Israel as the Assyrian captivity happened over a hundred years before the story of Jonah so his message was primarily to the Israelites in Assyria who were Paganized by their captors.
Another thing I want to bring to everyone's attention is the actual garb that the priests of Dagon wore in public. Above is an example of their dress. It consisted of a hat that looked like a fish head and wore a cape of fish scales to represent their deity.
A facsimile of this hat can be seen today as it has been adapted by the Catholic church for the Pope and Bishop's ceremonial dress.
This is an example of the Pope wearing the Mitre with the Star of David on it.
The Mitre of the Catholic Church was first brought to my attention about 6 months ago, and is fully explained in a book called "The Two Babylons" by Alexander Hislop on page 215. I have this book in my library and I am willing to loan it to anyone that knows me personally.
Thank you so much for bringing this to our attention. I always wondered why the hats were shaped the way they were. This was a very interesting article.
ReplyDeleteWho made that? Thats a modern artist's rendition. Nobody knows how the priests of dagon looked. Further, the catholoc headdress only came about during the dark ages, 1500 years after dagon's high point. They knew less than we did about it then . The real evolution of the hat is here : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitre
ReplyDeleteAK if you get a chance then read the book "The Two Babylons" by Alexander Hislop who actually researched this very topic. This book goes into detail about the miter and other information that you should read before you start bashing people. Also wikipedia is not a sited source.
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Academic_use
If you graduated High School or went to college, you would know this because no teacher would ever let you turn in any paper with Wikipedia as a source of information because anyone with a computer can change the information on the site. I did however look at the information on the site for entertainment purposes and it only gave general information about different types of miters for different denominations, so I really have no idea what meaning you are trying to convey???