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moloch::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | molech |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | agamid, agamid lizard |
| Has types | spiny lizard, moloch horridus, mountain devil |
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Moloch, to whom the second section is addressed, is a Levantine god to whom children were sacrificed.
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Moloch is mentioned a few times in the Torah and references to Ginsberg's Jewish background are not infrequent in his work.
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- A tyrannical power to be propitiated by human subservience or sacrifice; "the great Moloch of war"; "duty has become the Moloch of modern life"- Norman Douglas
- God of the Canaanites and Phoenicians to whom parents sacrificed their children
- Any lizard of the genus Moloch
- Moloch (Masoretic u05DEu05B9u05DCu05B6u05DAu05B0 mu014Dlek, Greek u039Cu03BFu03BBu03CEu03C7) is the Biblical name of a Canaanite god or possibly an ancient form of propitiatory child sacrifice by parents as sacrifice for the deity.
- "I, Robot...You, Jane" is the eighth episode of season 1 of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The episode was written by staff writers Ashley Gable and Thomas A. Swyden, and directed by Stephen Posey.
- Watchmen is a twelve-issue comic book limited series created by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, and John Higgins, published by DC Comics in 1986 and 1987. Watchmen focuses on six main characters: the Comedian, Doctor Manhattan, the Nite Owl, Ozymandias, Rorschach, and the Silk Spectre. ...
- 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. They are often made up of lines and lines of "spaghetti code".
- In many campaign settings for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Moloch is an arch-devil of Hell (Baator in later editions of the game), and once served as the viceroy of Baalzebul.
- Moloch loosely translated as: A Demon In The Shape Of Man; is a 1999 fictional biographical film portraying Adolf Hitler as a humanistic figure, living life in an unassuming manner during an abrupt journey to the Bavarian Alps.
