In games Dagon in Dark Corners of the Earth. Lovecraft's short story named Dagon, later becoming a more major antagonist in the story Shadow Over Innsmouth. Lovecraft, 'Dagon'ĭagon is an immensely huge sea creature, about 20 meters tall. "Vast, Polyphemous-like, and loathsome, it darted like a stupendous monster of nightmares to the monolith, about which it flung its gigantic scaly arms." -H.P. Nonetheless, Dagon is worshipped as a god by his few followers. While Lovecraft's version of Dagon is not a god, he is actually a Deep One grown to massive proportions. This Dagon also appears in John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost. In some sources he is seen as the father of the god Baal Hadad. Thousands of years later, worship of Dagon would continue with the Philistines of the BIble, though for them Dagon had become a deity of fish and fertility-harvest. Dagon was a powerful regional god in what is now Syria. The earliest sources for Dagon are Babylonian, dating from around 2500 B.C.
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