When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Moloch in literature and popular culture - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moloch_in_literature_and...

    In later Christian tradition, Moloch was often described as a demon. Moloch is depicted in John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost as one of the greatest warriors of the rebel angels, vengeful and militant. In the 19th century, "Moloch" came to be used allegorically for any idol or cause requiring excessive sacrifice. [1]

  3. Moloch - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moloch

    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]

  4. In America (song) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_America_(song)

    The strength of America is not in Washington, D.C., It's in our people, it's on the farms, in the factories. It's the people out here that make this country work. The truck drivers, the farmers. And these people, that's what they were, and I just felt like if you want to go to war, let me take some of these guys with me.

  5. Celebrity worship: What it is and why we do it, according to ...

    www.aol.com/lifestyle/celebrity-worship-why...

    There are people who will then attend the singer's concert film, engage in Swiftie content online, theorize about each one of her relationships (romantic or platonic) and maybe even show up to a ...

  6. Howl (poem) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howl_(poem)

    "Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness!" Fire god of the Canaanites referred to in Leviticus 18:21: "And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech." Worship of Moloch involved the sacrifice of children by fire. [58] [77] "Moloch whose buildings are judgement!" A reference to Urizen, one of William Blake's four Zoas. [77]

  7. Child sacrifice - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_sacrifice

    ''Offering to Molech'' in Bible Pictures and What They Teach Us, by Charles Foster, 1897.The drawing is a typical depiction of child sacrifice. Child sacrifice is the ritualistic killing of children in order to please or appease a deity, supernatural beings, or sacred social order, tribal, group or national loyalties in order to achieve a desired result.

  8. Amerika (song) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerika_(song)

    The song's lyrics, as well as its video, are a critique of America's cultural imperialism, political propaganda and role as a global policeman. [1] The two verses are sung in German with a chorus in Denglisch : "We're all living in Amerika, Amerika ist wunderbar, We're all living in Amerika, Amerika, Amerika" and "We're all living in Amerika ...

  9. Music history of the United States during the colonial era

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_history_of_the...

    In North America, the banjo was typically made by hollowing out a gourd or calabash and attaching a long neck. Enslaved people then stretched a piece of animal hide, usually raccoon, over the bowl and attached four strings. Jefferson claimed that the banjar with which he was familiar was tuned to E-A-d-g.