Moloch: the demon of the Land of Tears

Moloch: the demon of the Land of Tears.

Moloch is one of the most enigmatic demons in biblical myths.

In the book of Genesis it speaks of the Ammonites, a people who worshiped the sinister Moloch. In Kings this link is deepened, attributing patronage to Moloch; of a sinister cult that devoured children.

This vision would prevail in almost all the grimoires and prohibited books of the Middle Ages.

Moloch was later related to the Phoenician and Canaanite peoples, under the names of Malec, Molech and Milcom.

In Hebrew it was pronounced Molech, thus avoiding calling him by his real name: Melek; dark mythical figure related to Melek Taus: the demon-god.

Contemporary cultural anthropology identifies Moloch with ancient fertility rites, typical of peoples where it was customary to sacrifice the firstborn to ensure the benevolence of the gods in the continuity of the harvests.

The survival of this ancestral conception of the payment or sacrifice of something very loved to the divinity, as proof that no human affection or bond is above it, reappears more or less hidden in the three Mosaic religions and in most of pagan cosmogonies.

Taking into account such appetite, it is not strange that the poet John Milton, in Paradise Lost, places Moloch as the prince of the Land of Tears.

For fans of JRR Tolkien and his Middle Earth stories, it must be said that Moloch was one of the inspirations for the creation of Melkorthe first Dark Lord.

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