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Moloch, Molech, or Molek [a] is a word which appears in the Hebrew Bible several times, primarily in the Book of Leviticus. The Bible strongly condemns practices that are associated with Moloch, which are heavily implied to include child sacrifice. [2] Traditionally, the name Moloch has been understood as referring to a Canaanite god. [3]
Moloch played an important role in Jeff Lindsey's novel Dexter in the Dark (2007). Moloch is a character in the Felix Castor novels written by Mike Carey (2007 and following). In Derek Landy's Skulduggery Pleasant (2007), Moloch is the name of a vampire living in Ballymun.
The Canaanite god Moloch was the recipient of child sacrifice according to the account of the Hebrew Bible, as well as Greco-Roman historiography on the god of Carthage. Moloch is depicted in John Milton 's epic poem Paradise Lost as one of the greatest warriors of the rebel angels, vengeful and militant.
[23] [24] The Bible connects the Tophet with Moloch in two later texts, 2 Kings 23:10 and Jeremiah 32:35. [25] Lindsay Cooper writes in support of this connection that "The location of the Jerusalem tofet outside the city's eastern wall, at the traditional entrance to the netherworld, explicitly connects child sacrifice with the cult of death."
Statue potentially depicting Milcom or a deified Ammonite ruler as Milcom, 8th century BCE. [1]Milcom or Milkom (Ammonite: 𐤌𐤋𐤊𐤌 *Mīlkām; Hebrew: מִלְכֹּם Mīlkōm) was the name of either the national god, or a popular god, of the Ammonites.
Republican primary voters chose Moloch over Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis and Doug Burgum and all the others who now bend the knee to the man they all know—and some at least have said, though ...
) This book was published in 1884, and was cited as an influence by such apostles of French anti-Semitism as Édouard Drumont. In the book, Tridon proclaimed the superiority of 'Indo-Aryan' over 'Semitic' culture and traced Judaism back to the ancient worship of the god Moloch, who, he claims, demanded human sacrifice.
The Adoration of the Golden Calf – picture from the Hortus deliciarum of Herrad of Landsberg (12th century). According to the Torah and the Quran, the golden calf (Hebrew: עֵגֶל הַזָּהָב, romanized: ʿēḡel hazzāhāḇ) was a cult image made by the Israelites when Moses went up to Mount Sinai.