Moloch

Biblical name of a Canaanite god; a dysphemic vocalisation in the Second Temple period of a theonym based on the root MLK ("king")

Also called Molech, Milcom, Malcam

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Biblical name of a Canaanite god; a dysphemic vocalisation in the Second Temple period of a theonym based on the root MLK ("king")Wikidata record description. Read Moloch in the Wikipedia reader.

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Later works that name Moloch

Novels, plays and other later works that retell the figure.

Written 1667 CE
Paradise Lost
epic poem by John Milton
Written 24 November 1862 CE
Salammbô
1862 novel by Gustave Flaubert
Written 1936 CE
War with the Newts
novel by Karel Čapek
Written 1955 CE
Howl
1955 poem by Allen Ginsberg, part of the Beat Generation movement

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