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Moloch as pictured by an unknown artist (6)



Moloch was an idol worshipped by the Hebrews and some other people of the area. The priests burned a large fire within the idol, and according to a number of Biblical and Talmudic references, the Hebrews sacrificed their children to the god by throwing them — live — into the fire (the children were termed "thy seed," and the act, "pass[ing them] through the fire" in KJV). Accounts vary in details, e.g., the god was Canaanite in origin and only intermittently adopted by the Hebrews; the children were killed before they were burned (Catholic Encyclopedia, s.v. Moloch); the god was Carthaginian and the children were cast into the fire by priests, not parents (Gustave Flaubert [5]); etc.











Molk defined as "the practice of human sacrifice"



"The rite of the human sacrifice 'Molk' as a [sacrificial] offering is peculiar of a mentality which didn't exist in the Greek or Roman society.



"If Phoenicians thought that a God wanted the destruction of a town or a country, they didn't [hesitate] to offer him human lives, avoiding in this way the anger and the curse of the god and blaming on few people.



"As they believed no other sacrifices better than this could appease the anger of that god, Carthaginians vowed themselves to the human sacrifices and in order to increase the value of the sacrifice, they offered even their children's life." — City of Castelvetrano-Selinunte (1)



Thus we see that according to the above scholar, Molk (= Moloch?) was a word describing the practice of human sacrifice, rather than a specific deity. This conforms with the Catholic Encyclopedia's statement that the ancient Hebrews may have thought they were sacrificing their children to LORD God. (4)



The writer for the City of Castelvetrano-Selinunte, (1) in saying that human sacrifice "didn't exist in the Greek or Roman society," was limiting his statement to the Classical Greeks, of course. Mask of Agamemnon, 16th Century BC



Homer records the dilemma of Mycenaean king Agamemnon, who must either sacrifice his daughter Iphigeneia, or give up his ambition to fight the Trojan War. Agamemnon chooses the sacrifice, but the daughter is saved by the goddess Artemis. (8) In retelling the story, Classical Greek playwright Aeschylus (Agamemnon) allows the girl to die. However, Aeschylus surrounds the incident with the strongest expressions of disapproval:



"The chorus disapprove of his decision, and describe the sacrifice in sickening detail, as a murder repugnant to any normal human being. Agamemnon's feelings are perverted from the norm, as are those of all the characters in the trilogy (esp. Atreus, Thyestes, Clytemnestra, Orestes). The sacrifice is not only morally wrong, but futile: the sacrificer becomes the victim. Agamemnon is killed by Clytemnestra who is killed by Orestes." — James Hunter (9)















The Book of Jeremiah, King James Bible



30 For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me from their youth: for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith the LORD.



31 For this city hath been to me as a provocation of mine anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day; that I should remove it from before my face,



32 Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.



33 And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction.



34 But they set their abominations in the house, which is called by my name, to defile it.



35 And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin. — Jeremiah 32:30-35







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