but I don't think it's specified in Lovecraft's own work
No, I don't think it's specified. Like most things in the mythos it's ambigious at best. Dagon might be an extremely big, powerful and nasty Deep One; and he's certainly a deity and the deep one's certainly worship Dagon (c.f., The Shadow Over Innsmouth).
But like I noted a while back, the Cthulhu mythos neither began nor ended with Lovecraft
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Date: 2007-03-27 09:43 pm (UTC)No, I don't think it's specified. Like most things in the mythos it's ambigious at best. Dagon might be an extremely big, powerful and nasty Deep One; and he's certainly a deity and the deep one's certainly worship Dagon (c.f., The Shadow Over Innsmouth).
But like I noted a while back, the Cthulhu mythos neither began nor ended with Lovecraft
Which is one of the best aspects of it...