"this day a solemn feast the people hold to dagon, their sea-idol, and forbid laborious works."
john milton, samson agonistes.
" her own attitude toward shadowed innsmouth---which she had never seen---was one of disgust at a community slipping far down the cultural scale, and she assured me that rumours of devil-worship were partly justified by a peculiar secret cult which had gained force there and engulfed all the orthodox churches.
" it was called, she said, "the esoteric order of dagon" , and was undoubtedly a debased, quasi-pagan thing imported from the east a century before, at a time when the innsmouth fisheries seemed to be going barren. its persistence among a simple people was quite natural in view of the sudden and permanent return of abundantly fine fishing, ..."
h.p.lovecraft, the shadow over innsmouth.
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