“Exactly. Minoan refugees from the Thera volcano.”
The fact that Dagon is a male diety (and the Minoans were supposedly goddess worshipers) made me doubt this at first, but Dagon is often represented as a fish-man, and fish play a very prominent part in Minoan art. Plus, the Minoans were practitioners of ritual child sacrifice AND cannibalism: there’s lots of evidence from mass graves of children that the kids were butchered just like a food animal. So it would make sense that the local tribes that God so hated in the Old Testament descended from these awful people.
Growing up, I LOVED Greek history, and Minoan history (and it’s mysteries) were a fascination of mine. It was such a disappointment to find out that the people that constructed such beautiful (even magical ) places like the Palace of Knossos were sacrificing and eating their own children in honor of dark deities.
Across cultures and time it always seems to come down to good vs evil.