Moloch

**Moloch** was a fallen angel and prince of Hell that masqueraded as a pagan fertility god. He is infamous for his appetite towards children of the faithful.

## Moloch

### Aliases

King of Shame, Devourer of Children, Cremator of Care, Destroyer of Kin, Abomination of the Children of Ammon, Prince of Hell, Grand Cross of the Order of the Fly

## Overview

Moloch was the god of the Ammonites, portrayed as a bronze statue with a calf’s head adorned with a royal crown and seated on a throne. His arms were extended to receive the child victims sacrificed to him. Milton wrote that Moloch was a frightening and terrible demon covered with mothers’ tears and children’s blood.

He appears in the Old Testament as a god that Moses forbade the Israelites to worship. Moloch worship was practiced by the Canaanites, Phoenician and related cultures in North Africa and the Levant.

## Description

He is depicted as a massive humanoid bull, with demonic features. Rabbis claim that in the famous statue of Moloch, there were seven kinds of cabinets. The first was for flour, the second for turtle doves, the third for an ewe, the fourth for a ram, the fifth for a calf, the sixth for a beef, and the seventh for a child. It is because of this, Moloch is associated with Mithras and his seven mysterious gates with seven chambers. When a child was sacrificed to Moloch, a fire was lit inside the statue. The priests would then beat loudly on drums and other objects so that the cries would not be heard.

## Personality

He is often described as a rash, irrational and murderous demon, who wants to continue to wage war against God and Heaven. Moloch is often disregardful of his own tumulous predicaments, which is evident when he deemed it imperative to take the fight to God even after they were banished and punished for their transgressions.

Although, this was likely because he himself enjoyed the thrill of war so much and was the reason why his suggestion was overruled, likely on the account that Satan recognized that Moloch was more brawn than he is brain and is a fallen angel attributed to warfare and lives for the thrill of combat.

Moloch also finds particular pleasure in making mothers weep; he specialises in stealing their children.

## History

### Past

He is listed among the chief of Lucifer's angels, and is given a speech at the parliament of Hell, where he argues for immediate warfare against God. He later becomes revered as a pagan god on Earth. As a result of a disaster in the wake of the times, the spirit of Moloch had transformed himself into darkness by becoming matter.

### On Earth

Moloch is presented as a foreign deity who was at times illegitimately given a place in Israel’s worship as a result of the syncretistic policies of certain apostate kings. The laws given to Moses by God expressly forbade the Jews to do what was done in Egypt or in Canaan. “You shall not give any of your children to devote them by fire to Moloch, and so profane the name of your God”.

Yet kings such as Ahaz and Manasseh, having been influenced by the Assyrians, are reported to have worshipped Moloch at the hilled site of Topheth, outside the walls of Jerusalem. This site flourished under Manasseh’s son King Amon but was destroyed during the reign of Josiah, the reformer. “And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the sons of Hinnom, that no one might burn his son or his daughter as an offering to Moloch”.