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.

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 demon Moloch has an advanced robotic body built for him to inhabit " I, Robot ... You, Jane.

24 has been thought by some to be a proof of this, since it speaks of Chemosh as the god of the Ammonites, while Moloch is elsewhere their god ( compare I Kings xi.

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

Though the Moloch sacrifices have traditionally been understood to mean burning children alive to the god Moloch, some have suggested a rite of purification by fire instead, though perhaps a dangerous one.

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

He called Gladstone the " Moloch of Midlothian ", for whom torrents of blood had been shed in Africa.

" 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.

Set in the future, the show was based around a genetic shapeshifter experiment known as Project GKR ( Geno-Kinetic Research ), who had been stolen by Lady MacBeth ( a short-tempered female cyborg with a bionic arm ) before he could get the programming he needed to be a deadly and powerful weapon at the hands of the evil Mister Moloch, head of Moloch Industries.

Solomon used it to lock certain demons within jars and command others to do his bidding although eventually, according to the Testament, he was tempted into worshipping " false-gods " like Moloch, Baal and Rapha.

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

In letters of Bruckman's Munich Cosmic Circle the name Moloch was used to symbolize a Jewish God, hostile to life.

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

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.

Although the name Moloch was formerly used for a deity of the ancient Near East, this name began to be used later in demonology to refer to the fallen angel and Prince of Hell.

Moloch as terminology in computer science is used for monolithic computer programs: programs that are big, closed, fat, without the use of components or libraries.

According to Karlheinz Deschner's book The Moloch Dulles ascribed assets of 1 billion dollars to the Nazi party in 1933 after Hitler's appointment as Chancellor, and according to Stephen Kinzer's 2006 book Overthrow, his firm benefited from doing business with the Nazi regime.

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.

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

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.

They suggested that such descriptions of Moloch might be simply taken from accounts of the sacrifice to Cronus and from the tale of the Minotaur ; They found no evidence of a bull-headed Phoenician god.

Information from the novel and film still finds its way into serious writing about Moloch, Melqart, Carthage, and Ba ‘ al Hammon.

** Encyclopædia Biblica: Minni – Mordecai ( Contains a very long but now outdated article on Moloch from 1899.

This section is notable for its refrain, " I'm with you in Rockland ," and represents something of a turning point away from the grim tone of the " Moloch "- section.

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.

since both Chemosh and Moloch were developed, in different environments, from the same primitive divinity, and possessed many of the same epithets.

Moloch ( 1999 ), directed by Alexander Sokurov, starring Leonid Mozgovoy, deals with Hitler's life on his Berghof mountain retreat near Berchtesgaden during the war, drawing heavily from Hitler's Table Talk published after the war.

Lady MacBeth and her partner-in-crime Noah ( a green, baseball cap wearing and intelligent Tyrannosaurus rex ) must now prevent Moloch and Geeker's creator Dr. Maston from ever obtaining Geeker at all costs.

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

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 ).

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

In Karel Čapek's War with the Newts ( 1936 ), the Newts counter Christian attempts at conversion by turning to a god of their own creation named Moloch:

Chapter 13 describes how, in desperate attempt to call down rain, the image of Moloch was brought to the center of Carthage, how the arms of the image were moved by the pulling of chains by the priests ( apparently Flaubert's own invention ), and then describes the sacrifices made to Moloch.

Willow Rosenberg ( Alyson Hannigan ), one of Buffy's friends, is spending time online with someone she knows as Malcolm, who turns out to be a demon named Moloch the Corrupter.

The film highlights Italy's Roman past and the " monstrous " nature of Carthaginian society ( with especial focus on the temple of Moloch ), which is contrasted with the " nobility " of Roman society.

Other well-known works include Moloch ( 1896 ), Olesya ( 1898 ), Junior Captain Rybnikov ( 1906 ), Emerald ( 1907 ), and The Garnet Bracelet ( 1911 ) ( which was made into a 1965 movie ).

Horned lizards are morphologically similar to the Australian thorny devil ( Moloch horridus ), but are only distantly related.

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.

* Moloch ( film ), a 1999 biographical film by Alexander Sokurov about Adolf Hitler

* Moloch ( computing ), a type of computer program that uses few libraries or other clearly separate components

* Moloch ( Dungeons & Dragons ), an archdevil in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game

Many references to Moloch in popular culture ( for complete listing ), such as:

** Moloch ( Mortal Kombat ), a character in the Mortal Kombat video game series