* 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.

Moloch ( representing Semitic מלך m-l -, a Semitic root meaning " king ")— also rendered as Molech, Molekh, Molok, Molek, Molock, or Moloc — is the name of an ancient Ammonite god.

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:

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.

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.

' () 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.

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.

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.

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

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 ".

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

It would seem that this faith gained ground rapidly because the name Moloch reminded them of the zoological " molche " or the German " Molch ," the terms for Newt.

Although the 1896 short story Moloch first made his name known as a writer, it was his novel The Duel ( 1905 ) which made him famous.

* In Biblical Hebrew, Moloch is either the name of a god or the name of a particular kind of sacrifice associated historically with Phoenician and related cultures in North Africa and the Levant.

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.

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 is the name of a god associated with child sacrifice in the Hebrew Bible and with Phoenician and related cultures in north Africa and the Levant.

** Moloch the Mystic ( real name Edgar William Jacobi ), an underworld leader or crime boss in the Watchmen series