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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Dagon
		With the description found in the Bible coincides that which may be seen on the coins of various Philistine or Phœnician cities, on most of which Dagon is represented as a composite figure, human as to the upper part of the body, fish-like as to the lower.
		In the monuments -- also most probably in the popular worship -- Dagon is sometimes associated with a female half-fish deity, Derceto or Atargatis, often identified with Astarte.
		A few scholars, however, waving aside these evidences, consider Dagon as the god of agriculture.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04602c.htm (807 words)

	Nimrod, Mars and The Marduk Connection
		This goddess, Derceto, sometimes also known as Atargatis, had the upper portion of a woman but her lower parts were that of a fish (in other versions she was simply a beautiful priestess-maiden...total woman).
		It was told that Aphrodite (Assyrian: Ashtaroth), the goddess of love, who bore a grudge against her, made her fall violently in love with a young Syrian called Caystrus by whom she gave birth to a daughter.
		After the latter's birth, Derceto in her shame and guilt exposed her child, did away with the father and hid herself at the bottom of the lake.
	www.ldolphin.org /Nimrod.html (7439 words)

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