Dagon

Dagon, also spelled Dagan, was a god worshipped in ancient Syria along the middle Euphrates, with major temples at Tuttul and Terqa. In the upper Euphrates region he held the rank of father of the gods, comparable to the Mesopotamian god Enlil or the Hurrian god Kumarbi, and was understood as a lord of the land, a god of prosperity, and a source of royal legitimacy; his cult's reach is shown by numerous personal names formed from his own. Though attested less often along the coast, he appears in texts from Ugarit, where the god Baal is identified as his son. The Hebrew Bible names Dagan as the national god of the Philistines, with temples at Ashdod and Gaza, though no source outside the Bible confirms this claim.