… so, another example of the man bag motif in another part of the world is the Babylonian Fish God.

A random search result: Dagon was the chief deity of the Philistines. According to ancient mythology, Dagon was the father of Baal. He was the fish god (dag from dag-on, in Hebrew, apparently means ‘fish’), and he was represented as half-man, half-fish. There is a belief that both men and fish had evolved together from the primal waters. Dagon may also have been the provider of grain and personified natural forces that had supposedly produced all things. Grain and wheat is another element in the theories surrounding Göbeklitepe.

For the record, dağ, with a silent ‘g’ and which sounds like dah in English, means mountain in Turkish.

Should fish god be spelt with an F and a G? Goodness knows.

Is it a handbag, a basket, a man bag or some kind of other bag? Or not a bag at all? But, these similar looking items do come from different continents and infer a common link or theme.

I don’t fancy wearing a fish skin suit, though I suppose it’s not much different to wearing leather, so long as the material is properly treated, and hey, whatever floats yer boat!

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