This letter also mentioned the fact that Irish missionaries, such as Dagan, had refused to share meals with the missionaries.

Joseph Fontenrose first demonstrated that, whatever their deep origins, at Ugarit Dagon was identified with El, explaining why Dagan, who had an important temple at Ugarit is so neglected in the Ras Shamra mythological texts, where Dagon is mentioned solely in passing as the father of the god Hadad, but Anat, El's daughter, is Baal's sister, and why no temple of El has appeared at Ugarit.

One entire quarter of Ebla and one of its gates were named after Dagan.

Sargon the king prostrated himself before ( the god ) Dagan ( and ) made supplication to him ; ( and ) he ( Dagan ) gave him the upper land, namely Mari, Yarmuti, ( and ) Ebla, up to the Cedar Forest ( and ) up to the Silver Mountain ".

Some of the most significant of these deities were Anu, Ea, Enlil, Ishtar ( Astarte ), Ashur, Shamash, Tammuz, Adad / Hadad, Sin ( Nanna ), Dagan, Ninurta, Nisroch, Nergal, Tiamat, Bel and Marduk.

Adad / Ishkur's consort ( both in early Sumerian and later Assyrian texts ) was Shala, a goddess of grain, who is also sometimes associated with the god Dagan.

The god Dagon first appears in extant records about 2500 in the Mari texts and in personal Amorite names in which the gods Ilu ( Ēl ), Dagan, and Adad are especially common.

An inscription about an expedition of Naram-Sin to the Cedar Mountain relates ( ANET, p. 268 ): " Naram-Sin slew Arman and Ibla with the ' weapon ' of the god Dagan who aggrandizes his kingdom.

This letter also mentioned the fact that Irish missionary bishops, such as Dagan, refused to eat with the Roman missionaries.

His name appears in Hebrew as דגון ( in modern transcription Dagon, Tiberian Hebrew Dāḡôn ), in Ugaritic as dgn ( probably vocalized as Dagnu ), and in Akkadian as Dagana, Daguna usually rendered in English translations as Dagan.

An interesting early reference to Dagan occurs in a letter to King Zimri-Lim of Mari, 18th century, written by Itur-Asduu an official in the court of Mari and governor of Nahur ( the Biblical city of Nahor ) ( ANET, p. 623 ).

It relates a dream of a " man from Shaka " in which Dagan appeared.

In the dream, Dagan blamed Zimri-Lim's failure to subdue the King of the Yaminites upon Zimri-Lim's failure to bring a report of his deeds to Dagan in Terqa.

Dagan promises that when Zimri-Lim has done so: " I will have the kings of the Yaminites ked on a fisherman's spit, and I will lay them before you.

Dagan is mentioned occasionally in early Sumerian texts but becomes prominent only in later Akkadian inscriptions as a powerful and warlike protector, sometimes equated with Enlil.

" The stele of Ashurnasirpal II ( ANET, p. 558 ) refers to Ashurnasirpal as the favorite of Anu and of Dagan.

In an Assyrian poem, Dagan appears beside Nergal and Misharu as a judge of the dead.

Dagan was sometimes used in royal names.

The God Dagan in Bronze Age Syria, trans.

" Baal and Dagan in Ancient Syria ", Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie 83, pp. 88 – 98.

" Towards an Image of Dagan, the God of the Philistines.

Frederick met a French girl, Hermance Dagan, and they were soon married.

The god Lugh is honored by many at this time, as he is a deity of storms and lightning, especially the storms of late summer.

Furthermore, the slaying of Typhon by Zeus bears similarities to the killing of Vritra by Indra ( a deity also associated with lightning and storms ), and possibly the two stories are ultimately derived from a common Indo-European source.

As the deity of the wind, Oya manifests in Creation in the forms of sudden and drastic change, strong storms, and the flash of the marketplace.

Perun is always gore ( up, above, high, on the top of the mountain or in heaven ; Perun is a heavenly god, and he is also the ' highest ' deity of old Slavic pantheon ), he is suh ( dry, as opposite of wet ; he is god of thunder and lightning, which causes fire ), he treska / razbija / goni / ubija ( strikes / sunders / pursues / kills ; he is a god of thunder and storms, destructive and furious ) with strela / kamen / molnija ( arrow / stone / lightning ; Perun's weapons, are of course, his bolts of lightning.

The shrine is dedicated to the three daughters of Susano-o no Mikoto, Shinto deity of seas and storms and brother of the great sun deity, Amaterasu ( tutelary deity of the Imperial Household ).

In Japanese art, the deity is often depicted together with Raijin, the god of lightning, thunder and storms.

In Basque mythology, Sugaar ( also Sugar, Sugoi, Suarra, Maju ) is the male half of a pre-Christian Basque deity associated with storms and thunder.

Yam is the deity of the primordial chaos and represents the power of the sea untamed and raging ; he is seen as ruling storms and the disasters they wreak.

The earth deity had power over the ghostly world, and it is believed that she was the deity behind the oracle.

Aeacus had sanctuaries both at Athens and in Aegina, and the Aeginetans regarded him as the tutelary deity of their island.

Bob Jones, Sr. argued that if members of Graham ’ s campaign executive committee had rejected major tenets of orthodox Christianity, such as the virgin birth and the deity of Christ, then Graham had violated 2 John 9-11, which prohibits receiving in fellowship those who do “ not abide in the teaching of Christ .” In the 1960s, Graham further irritated fundamentalists by gaining the endorsement of Cardinal Richard Cushing for his Boston campaign and accepting honorary degrees from two Roman Catholic colleges.

Although the names are old, this opposition is a modern western-influenced development popularized by Martin Haug in the 1880s, and was in effect a realignment of the precepts of Zurvanism ( Zurvanite Zoroastrianism ), which had invented a third deity, Zurvan, in order to explain a mention of twinship ( Yasna 30. 3 ) between the moral and immoral.

This term had been used in the Qur ' an to refer to Cyrus the Great or alternatively Alexander the Great, who considered himself the son of the horned deity Ammon-Zeus, and wore horns as a part of his regalia.

Murray's theories has been seen to have had influence on Blood on Satan's Claw ( 1971 ), where a murderous female-led cult worships a horned deity named Behemoth.

Bruckner remarks that the name of the Lombards stands in close relation to the worship of Odin, whose many names include " the Long-bearded " or " the Grey-bearded ", and that the Lombard given name Ansegranus (" he with the beard of the gods ") shows that the Lombards had this idea of their chief deity.

In the ancient Near East, each city had a local patron deity, such as Shamash at Larsa or Sin at Ur.

In western Eurasia, the ancient traditions of the Slavic religion had elements of monotheism, of a supreme deity known by many names worshiped by some tribes.

Mecca's most important pagan deity was Hubal, which had been placed there by the ruling Quraysh tribe and remained until the 7th century CE.

A short story appearing in Zhang Zhuo's ( 660-741 ) Tang anthology shows how the deity had been venerated in Shaolin from at least the eighth century.

When the proto-Greeks ( peoples whose language would evolve into Greek proper ) first arrived in the Aegean and on the mainland of modern-day Greece early in the 2nd millennium BCE, they found localized nymphs and divinities already connected with every important feature of the landscape: mountain, cave, grove and spring all had their own locally venerated deity.

Aphrodite, who married Hephaistos, nevertheless had an affair with Ares to have Eros ( Love ), Phobos ( Fear ), Deimos ( Cowardice ), and Harmonia ( Harmony ), who would later marry Cadmus to sire Ino ( who with her son, Melicertes would become a sea deity ), Semele ( Mother of Dionysos ), Autonoë ( Mother of Actaeon ), Polydorus, and Agave ( Mother of Pentheus ).

Hindu temples began as simple shrines housing a deity and by the time of the Hoysalas had evolved into well articulated edifices in which worshippers sought transcendence of the daily world.

By the New Kingdom period, the role of Isis as a mother deity had displaced that of the spouse.

In ancient Rome only the native deities of Roman mythology had a templum ; any equivalent structure for a foreign deity was called a fanum.

Even though Ahura Mazda was a deity in the Old Iranian religion, he had not yet been given the title of " uncreated God ".

The Urartians had Aramazd as principal deity in their pantheon of gods.

Later, Arius ( 250-336 ), once he had been made a presbyter in Alexandria, began arguing that the teaching concerning the deity of Christ was an invention of men not found in Scripture and not believed by the Early Christians.

Every deity and demi-god had been invited, except Eris, the goddess of strife ( no one wanted a troublemaker at a wedding ).

The Eye of Providence had been a well-known classical symbol of the deity since at least the Renaissance, which Du Simitiere was familiar with.

Tuuri is rarely encountered in the Finnish pantheon, and had been relegated to the mere role of deity of harvest and success.

Nonetheless, many Mesopotamian, of all classes, had names that were devoted to a certain deity ; this practice appeared to have begun in the third millennium B. C. E.