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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/BrokenEye3 on 2024-04-19 07:27:39.

Original Title: TIL that contrary to popular belief, the Mesopotamian god Dagon has nothing to do with fish or the sea, and the portrayal of him as a fish god based entirely on the medieval belief that his name was derived from the Hebrew word for fish, “dāg”, which was debunked in the 1920s