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All Deep Ones continue to grow slowly after they reach maturity, provided that they have access to enough nourishment.

It may also be that there has been more than one gigantic specimen of Deep Ones who could have been confused with or mistaken for the original Dagon (citation needed). While apparently immortal, his longevity may be attributable to his fraternization with the Star Spawn, who sometimes select formidable specimens from a given species to protect, nurture, and empower for reasons known only to them (citation needed). He is worshipped as a deity by a devout cult of both humans and Deep Ones.

There is fossil evidence that the oldest, largest of these beings reached sizes of over 50 feet in height (citation needed).ĭagon is an enormous specimen of a Deep One (citation needed)that has been mentioned in texts since at least the time of Mesopotamia. They are, in fact, entirely corporeal beings whose great age contributes to their massive size. Such individuals engender the Cult of Dagon, who worship these creatures as deities. Īt a very advanced age, some Deep Ones reach enormous sizes (citation needed). The similarity of Dagon to the Hebrew word dag ("fish") led to a depiction of the deity as half man, half fish, like a merman, and to a wconception in Western culture of Dagon as a kind of sea god. He appears in the Hebrew Bible as a leading god of the Philistines, notably in Judges 16, where Samson brings down the temple of Dagon where he is being held captive. He may have been connected with fertility or grain. In the real world, Dagon or Dagan was a deity worshipped in Mesopotamia, particularly in what is now Syria. In the stories of Lovecraft and others, he presides over the Deep Ones, a hidden amphibious humanoid race that resides in the Earth's oceans, and is worshipped by the Esoteric Order of Dagon, a secret cult based in Innsmouth. Lovecraft's fiction in the short story " Dagon", eventually becoming a prominent element of the Cthulhu Mythos, where he is often referred to as Father Dagon. For the story in which it first appeared, see Dagon (short story).ĭagon is a deity from Mesopotamian mythology who was incorporated into H. Lovecraft 🔀 This is an article about the character.