Dagon
Dagon (Hebrew: דגון', Tib. Dāḡôn) or Dagan (Ugaritic: Dgn, Dagnu, or Daganu; Akkadian: Dagana) was originally an East Semitic Mesopotamian (Akkadian, Assyrian, Babylonian) fertility god who evolved into a major Northwest Semitic god, reportedly of grain (as symbol of fertility) and fish and/or fishing (as symbol of multiplying). He was worshipped by the early Amorites and by the inhabitants of the cities of Ebla (modern Tell Mardikh, Syria) and Ugarit (modern Ras Shamra, Syria). He was also a major member, or perhaps head, of the pantheon of the Philistines.
Name
In Ugaritic, the root dgn also means grain: in Hebrew דגן dāgān, Samaritan dīgan, is an archaic word for grain.
The Phoenician author Sanchuniathon also says Dagon means siton, that being the Greek word for grain. Sanchuniathon further explains: "And Dagon, after he discovered grain and the plough, was called Zeus Arotrios." The word arotrios means "ploughman", "pertaining to agriculture" (confer ἄροτρον "plow").
It is perhaps related to the Middle Hebrew and Jewish Aramaic word dgnʾ 'be cut open' or to Arabic dagn (دجن) 'rain-(cloud)'.
Fomalhaut b
Fomalhaut b or Dagon is a confirmed, directly imaged extrasolar object and candidate planet orbiting the A-type main-sequence star Fomalhaut, approximately 25 light-years away in the constellation of Piscis Austrinus. The object was initially announced in 2008 and confirmed as real in 2012 from images taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on the Hubble Space Telescope and, according to calculations reported in January 2013, has a 1,700-year, highly elliptical orbit. It has a periastron of 7.4 billion km (~50 AU) and an apastron of about 44 billion km (~300 AU). As of May 25, 2013 it is 110 AU from its parent star.
The planet was one of those selected by the International Astronomical Union as part of their public process for giving proper names to exoplanets. The process involved public nomination and voting for the new name. In December 2015, the IAU announced the winning name was Dagon. The name Dagon was proposed by Dr. Todd Vaccaro and forwarded by the St. Cloud State University Planetarium to the IAU for consideration.
List of demon lords
This a list of demon lords in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. In the 2nd Edition, the demon lords were known as "Abyssal lords".
Abraxas
Abraxas, known as the Unfathomable, is the demon lord of magic words, arcane secrets, and talismans, in the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game. Abraxas dwells on the 17th layer of the Abyss, known as Death's Reward.
Abraxas was one of many demon lords that was mentioned only by name in a list in the original Monster Manual II (1983). Abraxas received further details in third edition in Fiendish Codex I: Hordes of the Abyss (2006). Abraxas received further description in the fourth edition book Demonomicon (2010).
In Armies of the Abyss (2002) by Erik Mona, Abraxas is known as the Supreme Unknown and described as resembling a bare-chested man with the head of a rooster and a lower body made of writhing snakes. His areas of concern are listed as magic, occult lore, and dangerous secrets. In this book, Abraxas is the head of a twisted cult based loosely on historical Gnosticism, teaching that the gods are evil tyrants who have imprisoned souls in mortal bodies, while the true world of pure spirit, the Pleroma, lies beyond. In the world of Armies of the Abyss this is portrayed as a devious lie on the part of Abraxas, whose Abyssal layer is actually a trap for his deluded followers. Souls that come to Abraxas's realm experience ten years of bliss before being annihilated and devoured by the Abyss, fueling Abraxas's power. While Abraxas's cult is deliberately offensive to the gods, they experience little prosecution as they are for the most part blameless ascetics who make their living selling protective charms.
Podcasts:
Dagon
ALBUMS
- Terraphobic released: 2009
- Paranormal Ichthyology released: 2007
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- Locos por el Mix released: 2012
- La Maquina Del Tiempo: MDT Destroy released: 2007
- Flaix History, Volume 4 released: 2005
- Los 90 released: 2004
- Flaix History, Volume 1 released: 2002
- Superdance 90's: Ninety's Party released: 2001
- The Dream Team released: 1995
- A C T V - En Directo released: 1994
- La Ruta del Bakalao released:
Flaix History, Volume 4
Released 2005- Sing Hallelujah
- Murder on the Dance Floor
- Don't Turn Around
- The Power
- Another Night
- Surrender
- Think of You
- Killer
- L'Amour Toujours
- Gimme Love
- I Will Go With You (Con Te Partiro)
- Faces
- Voglio Vederti Danzare
- Move This
- California Dreamin'
- The Sound of San Francisco
- This Is the World We Live In
- Promise
- Sun Comes Out
- Let a Boy Cry
A C T V - En Directo
Released 1994- TRX Danger
- Guitar Spell
- Eins, Zwei, Polizei
- Night Power
- Quadra Beat
- Síguelo
- Out of Control
- The Spirits
- Verification
- The Music Takes Control
- Dehlia
- Waterfall
- Think About the Way
- Get Me Into Your Heard
- Loverboy
- Got to Feel Good
- Hold That Sucker Down
- Under the Same Sun
- Somebody to Love
- Ghost
- Cosmonaútica
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- Reflections From the Abyss - Chapter I released: 2006
Reflections From the Abyss - Chapter I
Released 2006- Between the Powers of the Gods
- Wrath of the Ancient Ones
- Flesh and Blades, Demon and Spirit
- A Quest for Vengeance
- In the Vain of Forbidden Lust
- The Reptilian Mind
- Arcane Wrath
- Tyrant of Nightmares
- How Does One Summon That Which Singeth to Thy Spirit in Places of Iniquity?
- A MAG Létének Egyensúlya
- The Feathered Serpent
- Strange Brew of Textures and Smoke
- Shynuja
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Blood Of The Ancients
by: DagonOnce I was stranded in my pride,
my vision blind by the scope of all things prescribed.
Then by the words of a contemplative mind,
my dreams took flight and the sage within me thrived.
What once with certainty I had considered myth,
fiction gone amiss, the stuff of the abyss.
I see as more than tales men whisper in the night,
the truth will come to flight and proof will come with
sight.
To the ends of the Earth,
to a place where dreams make berth.
I feel the blood of ancients swimming through my veins,
a call to see what they have seen.
A faith in dreams and visions in my soul ingrained;
could I believe what they believed?
Once the envy of my peers,
my new conviction have resigned me to their jeers.
I must stand up to my fears,
lest I be consumed for years, the path to me is clear.
By providence alone ride to the marches and beyond,
where few have gone I'll travel on.
Until I find the legends that men have lost,
consigned to memory, cast aside as Zeus or Thoth.
Onward I ride to the west and to the east,
to seek the proof I need and my torment's surcease.
Verities confound me as a stag eludes a hound,
but I'll have my vindication and tell of what I've
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