When the Philistines capture the ark, they think Dagon has defeated Yahweh. Yet Yahweh is a power worth deploying as a subordinate to Dagon, so that put the ark in Dagon’s temple (1 Samuel 5).
Dagon apparently knows that he’s in the presence of the High God. Every morning, He bows in worship before the ark.
Yahweh topples Dagon over so that his head and hands break off. Like the serpent, like Sisera and Abimelech and Goliath, Dagon suffers massive head trauma. Like the serpent, Dagon is made to eat dust.
Jesus is Yahweh, crushing the heads of principalities, disarming the powers.
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