#dagon #lovecraft #horror<br /><br />PATRONOID MAGAZINE (fantasy / horror / adventure anthology) FREE DOWNLOAD!!<br /><a href="https://www.smiletitans.com/Patronoid/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.smiletitans.com/Patronoid/</a><br /><br />An illustrated reading of 'Dagon' by H.P. Lovecraft. Read by Mike Bennett, illustrated by Christopher Steininger.<br />"Dagon" is a short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft. It was written in July 1917 and is one of the first stories that Lovecraft wrote as an adult. It was first published in the November 1919 edition of The Vagrant. Dagon was later published in Weird Tales.<br /><br />Illustrated by Christopher Edwin Steininger<br />Patreon:<br /><a href="https://www.patreon.com/steininger" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.patreon.com/steininger</a><br />Smile Titans:<br /><a href="http://www.smiletitans.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.smiletitans.com</a><br />Instagram:<br /><a href="https://www.instagram.com/smiletitans_art/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.instagram.com/smiletitans_art/</a><br /><br />Read by Mike Bennett:<br /><a href="http://www.mikebennettauthor.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.mikebennettauthor.com</a><br /><br />The god Dagon first appears in extant records about 2500 BC in the Mari texts and in personal Amorite names in which the Mesopotamian gods Ilu (Ēl), Dagan, and Adad are especially common. <br /><br />At Ebla (Tell Mardikh), from at least 2300 BC, Dagan was the head of the city pantheon comprising some 200 deities and bore the titles BE-DINGIR-DINGIR, "Lord of the gods" and Bekalam, "Lord of the land". His consort was known only as Belatu, "Lady". Both were worshipped in a large temple complex called E-Mul, "House of the Star". One entire quarter of Ebla and one of its gates were named after Dagan. Dagan is called ti-lu ma-tim, "dew of the land" and Be-ka-na-na, possibly "Lord of Canaan". He was called lord of many cities: of Tuttul, Irim, Ma-Ne, Zarad, Uguash, Siwad, and Sipishu. <br /><br />Dagan is mentioned occasionally in early Sumerian texts but becomes prominent only in later Assyro-Babylonian inscriptions as a powerful and warlike protector, sometimes equated with Enki. Dagan's wife was in some sources the goddess Shala (also named as wife of Adad and sometimes identified with Ninmah). In other texts, his wife is Ishara. In the preface to his famous law code, King Hammurabi calls himself "the subduer of the settlements along the Euphrates with the help of Dagan, his creator". 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." <br /><br />An interesting early reference to Dagan occurs in a letter to King Zimri-Lim of Mari, 18th century BC, 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 [coo]ked on a fisherman<br />...<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv1I0y6PHfg" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv1I0y6PHfg</a>