Dagon, the national god of the Philistines, represented as half-man, sometimes half-woman, and half-fish; appears to have been a symbol to his worshippers of the fertilising power of nature, familiar to them in the fruitfulness of the sea.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Dagobert I. * Daguerreotype