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Some modern scholars have proposed that Moloch may be the same god as Milcom, Adad-Milki, or an epithet for Baal. [27] G. C. Heider and John Day connect Moloch with a deity Mlk attested at Ugarit and Malik attested in Mesopotamia and proposes that he was a god of the underworld, as in Mesopotamia Malik is twice equated with the underworld god ...
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. In Wayne Barlowe's novel God's Demon (2007), Moloch appears as an
Milcom or Milkom (Ammonite: 饜饜饜饜 *M墨lk膩m; Hebrew: 诪执诇职讻止旨诐 M墨lk艒m) was the name of either the national god, or a popular god, of the Ammonites. He is attested in the Hebrew Bible and in archaeological finds from the former territory of Ammon.
Moloch, putative god of fire, husband of Ishat, [18] may be identified with Milcom. Mot or Maweth, god of death (not worshiped or given offerings). Nikkal-wa-Ib, goddess of orchards and fruit. Pidray, goddess of light and lightning, one of the three daughters of Ba'al Hadad. [19] Qadeshtu, lit. "Holy One", putative goddess of love, desire and lust.
Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon. (Acts 7:43) It is generally agreed by Biblical scholars to be the same as the Hebrew Kiyyun or Chiun (Hebrew: 讻执旨讬旨讜旨谉), mentioned in Amos 5:26.
Traditionally, the name Moloch has been understood as referring to a Canaanite god. However, since 1935, scholars have debated whether or not the term refers to a type of sacrifice on the basis of a similar term, also spelled mlk , which means "sacrifice" in the Punic language .
The sheyd 讗址砖职诪职讚旨讗指讬 in bird-like form, with typical rooster feet, as depicted in Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae, 1775 Child sacrifice to the sheyd 诪止诇侄讱职 (), showing the typical depiction of the Ammonite deity 'Moloch' in medieval and modern sources (illustration by Charles Foster for Bible Pictures and What They Teach Us, 1897)
The argument that Allah (God in Islam) originated as a moon god first arose in 1901 in the scholarship of archaeologist Hugo Winckler. He identified Allah with a pre-Islamic Arabian deity known as Lah or Hubal, which he called a lunar deity. Modern scholarship has dismissed this notion as unfounded.