It’s a sad state of affairs when a guy can’t wear a cool hat without catching heat over it.

And here I was thinking that Dagon worship was limited to the town of Innsmouth. 😄

Thanks Dan, everybody knows we catholics are more Yog Sothoth type.

"Anti-Catholic" -- that brings up a childhood memory for me. In the late 1970s, our family got involved for a while with the Seventh-Day Adventists, who taught that the Pope wears a ring with the Latin inscription, "VICARIVS FILII DEI" -- the vicar of the son of God(?) -- which adds up to 666 in Roman numerals (if you ignore the placement rules). No idea how true any of it is, but it does make an important point: the easiest way to identify a Christian is that they go around telling other people they're not Christians.

I'm an inch closer to making a bingo card. "Outdated scholarship" is my new square.

The fish hat sounds like a redit "r/ExplainLikeImCalvin" post. Here are a few more from ELIC 1) The pope, unlike a normal human, has a very special connection with jesus. This connection can only be made with long, stringy antennae. His hat keeps the antennae warm so they can communicate with jesus 2) You see, Catholic headwear stacks, like those nesting dolls. You start with a small skullcap as a regular priest, and as you move up in the church, you get a bigger hat that goes on top of the previous one. If you take off the Pope's hat, you'll find his old Cardinal's hat underneath, and so on. 3) Clearly he's a unicorn duh!

Those Juanes jokes were perfect, “A Dios le pido” que siempre continúes con tu buen trabajo

Thank God 😁 for Dan McClellan. He does an amazing job at countering the vast amount of religious BS online and we need more like him.

Interestingly, one of my favorite video game characters, Link from the Zelda series wears a traditional phrygian cap. The cap later developed a connotation with freedom due to the American Revolution and the Jacobite uprising.

Dagon is clearly an octopus curse before he gets killed by Toji. Also busting out that Spanish was hilarious and unexpected!

The Pope wears this hat to keep Dans ‘common sense’ out of his head.

I wish, Io Io, Cthulhu fhtagn! Instead of secretly worshipping a Cthulhu or his brother Dagon the Pope worships some Israeli king's ancestor for some reason 😂

This one made me laugh. Are comedians ginning these things up? Thanks for setting us all straight, Dan.

I love that there have been sentences uttered aloud with "fish entities" in them.

Feels like Dan Brown has been talking to that guy

I've NEVER wanted a religious rumor to be true as much as I want this one to be true.

Pfff! Iyääh Dagon! Iyaääh Kullulu! Iyääh Shub Niggurath!

Yes, they totally ignore the older mainline Christian traditions such as the Orthodox, Syriac and Coptic churches.

Doesn't matter. Conan the Barbarian killed Dagon by pulling the horn out of his forehead. Or, maybe that was his brother, Daryll, or his other brother, Daryll.

I'm here for the cool hats. Next we need a video on the awesome socks the Cardinals wear.

Fish heads, fish heads Roly-poly fish heads Fish heads, fish heads Eat them up, yum -The Gospel according to Barnes & Barnes

Dagon is greatly pleased by the hat though. He loves pointy hats

I, for one, choose to believe in the Carp Pope.

You never go full Dan brown.

I always appreciate the context that you add to these conversations Even when you have to turn into an Apologetic

The Juanes jokes were hilarious 😂

We all know that the temple to Dagon is really in Innsmouth. #sarcasm

Interesting about the fish, I always assumed it was because Jewish dietary law made it impossible to eat most meat available in Rome, as it isn't slaughtered properly, but allowed a Jew/Christian to buy and eat fish.

I've been listening to this kind of "anti-catholic" rhetoric since at least the 80s, though I know it is far older than that. The audience is already predisposed to accept it, and the confidence with which the speaker presents just affirms their notions. Pity.

Getting all lovecraftian up in here

Me encantaron las referencias a Juanes. ¡Saludos desde Costa Rica!

So are they saying that Dagon exists and grants miracles? Because otherwise there's no real reason for the head of the biggest denomination of Christianity, which insists that he literally speaks to and on behalf of God, to also bother running another religion that doesn't give him any special powers.

I came here for the Cthulu references and you all did not disappoint 🐙

Jajajajaja me encantó el easter egg de Juanes!!!

Love the Juanes jokes 😂

nice juanes references dan! ;)

Silly old duffa got his Dagon’s mixed up,but HP Lovecraft is kinda Genre-adjacent I guess..Praise Cthulhu๛🤘𖤐

I always thought of it as a tea-cosy.

You should do a lot more Jordan Maxwell material. He was popular for decades and nearly everything is said was wrong.

Dan it's amazing how many of the title questions for your videos can be answered, simply, no. 😁

A Phoenician fish god? The ancients really missed the opportunity to be called the Fishnicians. Dropped the ball, ancient guys. Dropped the ball.

Jesus: _Takes on multiple fishermen as disciples, refers to himself and his disciples as "fishers of men", manifested enough bread and fish to feed five thousand people as one of his most well-known miracles, gave the Parable of the Drawing in the Net where he compares God to a fisherman sorting fish, miraculously instructed his disciples on which side of the boat is better to fish on, and miraculously gets one of his disciples to obtain temple tax money by fishing._ Early Christians: _Use the ichthys as a symbol of their faith, a reference both to the feeding of the five thousand and the Eucharist._ Modern Christians: "fIsH hAt MeAnS dAgOn!"

Okay, that's the funniest yet! 😂

my hat is pointier than your hat!

Dan, can you address the snake staff and if it has historical connections to anything? Is that an Asherah thing with the snakes and healing?

As ever - Well taken apart but I didn't pick up on Jordan Maxwell's anti-catholic element?

What do you think about the reference of the aeons/ages? The age of Taurus (golden calf), the age of aries (sacrificial rams), and the age of Pisces (two fish & five loaves). Is there no connection to the astrological ages and religious tradition? We are now about on the cusp of a new age into Aquarius, the man with a pitcher pouring out water symbolizing knowledge many believe. We live in the age of information with the most technological advancements in human history.

I knew where he was going to go with his video.

Mehrunes Dagon 😂

😂 Not sure how many people got the Juanes joke. It was my first thought, and then Dan delivered!

This is why we always ate fish on Fridays.

Did you just JUANES us? Because, SIR!! :)

Dan, How many languages do you speak?

As a kid I liked researching stuff up to the present and it is baffling to watch these psodo experts, not get one fact wrong, but every point wrong, why.

03:00 - The root word would be "DGN" - cereal(s). Seems this deity had to do with crops, not unlike Baal. Baal, "husband(ry)", is a whole other can of worms, which the new ager Jordan Maxwell wouldn't want to tell you about.

"I can't justify my hatred for another religion, so I'll just say they secretly believe something different."

Not really baffling. Conspiracies are sexy. Why would anyone listen to this man if he didn't have something controversial and "astonishing" to sell?

I love how anti-history some religious people can be. They literally get to the point where they willfully forget their own history and drum up some terribleness around it.

Besides, it looks much more like a squid than a fish.

Is it OK to gin up on the weekend?

Not the Juanes referencia

Alexander Hislop's "The Two Babylons" is one of the worst books ever written. It is poisoning minds to this day with garbage pseudo-scholarship and rampant conspiracy theories that claim everything in Christianity is pagan. It's where those graphics and citations the preacher is using come from.

This reminds me of Lew White's nonsense... (If you don't know who that is, consider yourself fortunate). It's the first time I've seen those pictures of "Dagon" in colour...

One point to make here about dagan that Dan laid out pretty well. The point here has less to do with gods than it has to do with the exploration of "the gods" in literature. The sumerians had a pretty much encapsulated belief system for a period of time when the Ubaid culture was nestled up against the persian gulf. As the eneolithic unfolded they needed to trade, but the bronze age also coincides with Sumerian civilization, which begins in Uruk. The hallmarks of trade can be sees in the Jemdet Nasr culture up the Tigris, which is a likely trade route for tin bronze. Along the iranian plateau there was trade in more exotic minerals. Bronze metallurgy was necessary for survival, but also neccesary for capturing slaves and expanding territory, but more importantly of all, keeping trade routes open. In the predynastic period though it seems the western interest was cedar, the huge cedar trees in steep terrain bordering the mediterranean were highly valued. To get those trees one needed to get them into tributaries that flowed to the Euphrates, an engineering task all to itself. Where as one can truck out bagged or man per man, you cant really do the sane with 20 ton ceder trunks. A whole lot of things need to be set up. And so Sumer was expanding, or at least trying to expand its trading institutions northwestward up the Euphrates. This required building colonies, the first large colony, we don't know its name, was abandoned, shurrupak was attacked . . .things did not go well. My opinion is that Sumer thought the Middle Euphratean peoples were second class (Think Israel versus Gaza) and so their identity and gods did not mean much to them. There is in fact a poem denigrating the Mar.Tu in much the same way the homeless are denigrated. Following the great flood it became neccesary to understand the Euphrates and it people better and the Sumerians begin identifying other people. The first we see is Hit, then Anah. The abandoned city was restored as Mari, the kings grew in power, they conquered many cities between the Euphrates and the mediterranean. In other places they made deals. So lets go through these cities and talk about their gods. Hit (Hēt), Is, Tutul (akkad-Sumer) is an Iraqi town along the Euphrates. "In ancient times, the area around Hit was very fertile and was used for agriculture. During the Early Dynastic Period the Sumerians discovered bitumen wells in the region, which they used in building the Ziggurats." So we have to make a distinction of peoples and names. The people of Hit are called amorites, but that may just indicate who controlled the region, the overlords. This region appears to be remnants of Halaf culture. The high god of the Mar.tu was Amurru It is from these correspondences between the amorite overlords and the sumerians that were documented much later that we get: "This is the first name which is known for this city. Its importance was attested by Sargon himself, who said that the god Dagon gave him the area which comprised Tutul and Mari, capital of the Amorites. There is also an inscription by Naram-Sin which mentions Tutul, as one of the cities bequeathed to him by Dagon." And so the Amorites, from the west probably saw this as a annexed territory. Dagan is kind of a father god, like Anu, but a fertility god. As Dan correctly state the god emerges from history and may have extrasemetic origins. The goddess of Ebla seems at some point to be a relative, daughter or wife of dagan.

Well honestly the word dag indeed means fish in hebrew and jews been into phalestine in ancient days..5000 years ago time of moses and moses had a great relatioship with the sea he was a master of the sea as we all irrevocably know that he splitted the sea in half.... and consider this...... moses did wander the sea for years

Apkallu was a demigod who transmitted wisdom from the gods to humanity, you say? Someone give our piscatorial Demiurge this dude’s number! 😊

Does a bear sh*t in the woods?

Sir.. I must say that I respect your research and opinions and mostly I will agree with them as I reflect during my time of study with your videos playing regarding any particular subject in question. And as a former theological minister who specialised in esoteric and theological principles regarding the current interpretation of the canonical scriptures and their inspirational and supportive manuscript text from different cultures (as we both are aware..) The data may not show direct connection and modern academia does not support such pseudo hypotheses that do not have circumstantial data pointing to a plausible explanation of our ancestral past however, it does not dismiss any previous cultures or belief systems regarding their origin. This would mean, We cannot dismiss any geological, megalithic, archaeological findings or data that points to many tribal groups and early civilisations who have recorded the help of halfish half human people who came to help them via the air or the sea. This documented data cannot be refuted, unless we attribute these documentations as the figment of the early civilisations imagination whom I may add is responsible for most of our modern societal growth over the last 13,000 years such as schools, irrigation, animal husbandry and astronomy. But hey. What the heck do I know eh? Just sayin. One love from Jamaica.

So happy misinformation like this is be debunked. I was taught this about Dagon from my fundamentalist parent who were avid apologist. So much terrible scholarship or dishonest scholarship being promulgated within christian circles to bluster cognitive dissonance with their belief system. As always - Great work educating those seeking a bit more clarity in truth!

Of course this is completely bullshit, and I'm not meaning to be anti-Catholic whatsoever, but I kind of wish it was true. I want to believe. How cool would it be to have the Fish Pope?

Aha! So all of these Christians use the fish symbol because they worship an ancient (not fish) god! I wonder why they bother with the subterfuge? What is their nefarious plan? When do they reveal the truth to their converts? Is this why Catholics had to eat fish on Fridays?

How dare you to doubt the inspired scriptures of Saint H.P. Lovecraft, who clearly established the fishdivinity of DAGON as early as 1917 (so, historically almost immediately after the old Mesopotamians!)? Is there nothing sacred to you, Dan McClellan?

Can fish be pagan?

A stupidly conspiratorial ad came on my feed after this video and I was waiting for Dan to pop up and call it baffling ill informed.

But he's so sure of himself 😢

😂😂😂😂, a Dios le pido

Didn't this nonsense come from The Two Babylons by Ian Hislop?

Yeah this smear vid did not disprove Jordan Maxwell like it clearly is intending - you tried hard though I’ll give you that

Great use of the word asinine. Who believes these people?

So much garbage teaching out there, and so many gullible people who lap it up without question. They want to believe it (to confirm their existing biases) and so they do…

Even if the popes hat comes from an ancient fish deity, so what? That is not what his hat represents today. Im not catholic, i dont like them pretending like theyre the only Christians. But lets not make up BS about them.

Lies

Why such flamboyant way of dressing anyway ? I can agree about Dagon, the lack of evidence to what it means, still, i found it interesting, the similarities between the way of dressing in the hierarchy of Christandom and ancient gods worship, between the rituals of the Churches and the rituals of the Pegans, I'm not saying Christians are Pegans, but same Pegans definitely claimed to be Christian, stay woke my friends