* Moloch ( written " mlk " מלך in unvowelled Hebrew ), ancient Semitic god

Martin is questioned and ' concluded ' ( meaning, executed ) by Moloch.

Moloch has been traditionally interpreted as the name of a god, possibly a god titled the king, but purposely mispronounced as Mole < u > k </ u > instead of Mele < u > k </ u > using the vowels of Hebrew bosheth " shame ".

It has also been suggested that the Ba ‘ al of Tyre, Melqart " king of the city " ( who was probably the Ba ‘ al whose worship was furthered by Ahab and his house ) was this supposed god Moloch and that Melqart / Moloch was also Milcom the god of the Ammonites and identical to other gods whose names contain mlk.

The Septuagint renders " your king " as Moloch, perhaps from a scribal error, whence the verse appears in Acts 7. 43:

Cabiria was a story about a slave named Maciste ( played by Bartolomeo Pagano ) who was involved in the rescue of a Roman princess from an evil Carthaginian king who plotted to sacrifice her to the cruel god Moloch.

Moloch has been traditionally interpreted the epithet of a god, known as " the king " like Baal was an epithet " the master " and Adon an epithet " the lord ", but in the case of Moloch purposely mispronounced as Mole < u > k </ u > instead of Mele < u > k </ u > using the vowels of Hebrew bosheth " shame ".

The name of the father of Mesha, Chemosh-melek (" Chemosh is Malik " or " Chemosh is king "; compare Moabite Stone, line 1 ), indicates the possibility that Chemosh and Malik ( or Moloch ) were one and the same deity.

' () The Tanakh also implies that the Ammonites offered child sacrifices to Moloch.

Issues and practices relating to Moloch and child sacrifice may also have been overemphasized for effect.

We also once find hmlk ' the Moloch ' standing by itself.

Issues and practices relating to Moloch and child sacrifice may also have been exaggerated for effect.

They also characterized Rabbinical traditions about other gods mentioned in the Tanach as simply legends, and regarded them as raising doubt about what was said about Moloch.

Moloch is also the name of an industrial, demonic figure in Fritz Lang's Metropolis, a film that Ginsberg credits with influencing " Howl, Part II " in his annotations for the poem ( see especially Howl: Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript & Variant Versions ).

Adramelech, also called Adrammelech, Adramelek or Adar-malik, (; Adramelekh ; ) was a form of sun god related to Moloch.

New characters include the blind warrior Kenshi, the drunken-master Bo ' Rai Cho, the Outworld warrior Li Mei, the vampire Nitara, the Lin Kuei apprentice Frost, Red Dragon agents Mavado and Hsu Hao, and the Netherealm Onis Drahmin and Moloch, who also acts as the sub boss of the game.

Moloch also seems fond of Sleipnir O ' Hara, a member of Gil's circle of sparks / friends.

The thorny devil ( Moloch horridus ) is an Australian lizard that is also known as the thorny dragon, the mountain devil, the thorny lizard, or the moloch.

Moloch may also mean:

* Moloch horridus, also known as the Australian thorny devil, the sole lizard species of the genus Moloch

Nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century archaeology found almost no evidence of a god called Moloch or Molech.

Eissfeldt further concluded that the Hebrew writings were not talking about a god Moloch at all, but about the molk or mulk sacrifice, that the abomination was not in worshiping the god Molech who demanded children be sacrificed to him, but in the practice of sacrificing human children as a molk.

" Both Chemosh and Molech may have had the same origins but if so, by Solomon's time they had been denominated into differing objects for different peoples, Chemosh for the Moabites and Moloch for the Ammonites.

* Molech or Moloch, putative god of fire

* Hercules vs the Moloch ( Ercole contro Molock / Hercules vs Moloch ) starring Gordon Scott, 1963 ( a. k. a. The Conquest of Mycene )

The religion of Moloch — as such creeds may be generically called — is in essence the cringing submission of the slave, who dare not, even in his heart, allow the thought that his master deserves no adulation.

Large numbers of lesser devils on this layer are missing all or part of at least one limb, or have some other sort of disfigurement or infirmity — a testament to the days when Baalzebul and Moloch ruled here, both of whom delighted in the torture of their subjects.

* MLK refers to a major Canaanite deity probably named Moloch, in which case Abimelech means my father is Moloch-a reference to belief in semi-divine kings ; or

In the old Irish tale from the Book of Lismore, " The Siege of Druim Damhgaire or Knocklong " ( Forbhais Droma Dámhgháire ), Crom is associated with Moloch.

In other passages, however, the god of the Ammonites is named Milcom, not Moloch ( see 1 Kings 11. 33 ; Zephaniah 1. 5 ).

Other references to Moloch use mlk only in the context of " passing children through fire lmlk ", whatever is meant by lmlk, whether it means " to Moloch " or means something else.

Tophet is Moloch, which was made of brass ; and they heated him from his lower parts ; and his hands being stretched out, and made hot, they put the child between his hands, and it was burnt ; when it vehemently cried out ; but the priests beat a drum, that the father might not hear the voice of his son, and his heart might not be moved.

In John Milton's Paradise Lost ( 1667 ), Moloch is one of the greatest warriors of the fallen angels,

In Bertrand Russell's A Free Man's Worship ( 1903 ), Moloch is used to describe a particularly savage brand of religion:

At a later period and almost universally the Newts themselves came to accept a different faith, whose origin among them is unknown ; this involved adoration of Moloch, whom they visualized as a giant Newt with a human head ; they were reported to have enormous submarine idols made of cast iron, manufactured to their orders by Armstrong or Krupp, but no further details ever leaked out of their cultic rituals since they were conducted under water ; they were, however, believed to be exceptionally cruel and secret.

In Allen Ginsberg's poem " Howl " ( 1955 ), Moloch is used as a metaphor for capitalism and industrial civilization, and for America, more specifically.

The word is repeated many times throughout Part II of the poem, and begins ( as an exclamation of " Moloch!

< p > Moloch whose mind is pure machinery!

Moloch whose blood is running money!

Moloch whose breast is a cannibal dynamo!

Moloch whose ear is a smoking tomb!

< p > Moloch whose love is endless oil and stone!

Moloch whose soul is electricity and banks!

Moloch whose poverty is the specter of genius!

Moloch whose fate is a cloud of sexless hydrogen!

Moloch whose name is the Mind!

" Part II is about the state of industrial civilization, characterized in the poem as " Moloch ".

Ginsberg says of Part II, " Here the long line is used as a stanza form broken into exclamatory units punctuated by a base repetition, Moloch.