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Chemosh was the supreme deity of the Canaanite state of Moab and the patron-god of its population, the Moabites, [1] [2] who in consequence were called the "People of Chemosh". [3] The name and significance of Chemosh are historically attested in the Moabite-language inscriptions on the Mesha Stele, dated ca. 840 BCE.
Because the name "Moloch" is almost always accompanied by the definite article in Hebrew, it is possible that it is a title meaning "the king", as it is sometimes translated in the Septuagint. [10] In the twentieth century, the philosopher Martin Buber proposed that "Moloch" referred to "Melekh Yahweh". [ 46 ]
Mesha tells how Chemosh, the god of Moab, had been angry with his people and had allowed them to be subjugated to the Kingdom of Israel, but at length, Chemosh returned and assisted Mesha to throw off the yoke of Israel and restore the lands of Moab.
The name occurs several additional times in the Septuagint: 2 Samuel 12:30, 1 Chronicles 20:2, Amos 1:15, Jeremiah 40 (=30):1.3, Zephaniah 1:5, and 1 Kings 11:7. [4] The Masoretic text reads malkam, meaning "their king" in most of these instances. [5] It is likely that the Hebrew text originally read Milcom in at least some of these instances. [6]
Chemosh refers to more than one thing: For the biblical God of the Moabites, see Chemosh; For the Dragonlance God, see Chemosh (Dragonlance)
Odin the Wanderer (the meaning of his name Gangleri); illustration by Georg von Rosen, 1886. Odin (Old Norse Óðinn) is a widely attested god in Germanic mythology. The god is referred to by numerous names and kenningar, particularly in the Old Norse record.
Shedim were not considered evil demigods, but the gods of foreigners; further, they were envisaged as evil only in the sense that they were not God. [6] They appear only twice (and in both instances in the plural) in the Tanakh, at Psalm 106:37 and Deuteronomy 32:17. In both instances, the text deals with child sacrifice or animal sacrifice.
Kammusu-nadbi or Chemosh-nadab (Moabite: π€π€π€π€π€π€, romanized: KamΕš-nadab [1] [2] [3] or KamΕš-nadbΔ«; [2] [4] Neo-Assyrian Akkadian: π°π¬π’πΎππ, romanized: Kammusu-nâdbi [5]) was the king of Moab during the reign of Sennacherib.