Dagan (West Semitic god of crop fertility

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• Dagan — /dah gahn/, n. the Mesopotamian god of agriculture and the earth: a counterpart of the Phoenician and Philistine Dagon. * * * West Semitic god of crop fertility, father of Baal. He was the mythical inventor of the plow. He had an important temple …   Universalium

• MESOPOTAMIA — The original article in the first edition of the Encyclopaedia Judaica traced Mesopotamian history to its earliest beginnings and provided a detailed survey of Mesopotamian literature and institutions. With the availability of such tools as J.… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Mesopotamia, history of — ▪ historical region, Asia Introduction  history of the region in southwestern Asia where the world s earliest civilization developed. The name comes from a Greek word meaning “between rivers,” referring to the land between the Tigris and… …   Universalium