Moloch - Revision history

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‎Origin: More information regarding scholarly views of Moloch

Netzhack: Fixed dangling pronoun

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Fixed dangling pronoun

Kelenius at 12:57, 11 March 2020

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JakeGK: Fixed trademark symbol

2017-07-03T17:20:48Z

Fixed trademark symbol

Phol ende wodan: Fix Minetown link and add in list of convertable altars

2016-10-29T19:01:43Z

Fix Minetown link and add in list of convertable altars

Cherokee Jack: Making the origin more detailed, but hopefully still neutral

2016-06-24T16:50:00Z

Making the origin more detailed, but hopefully still neutral

84.51.185.109 at 11:40, 17 April 2016

2016-04-17T11:40:24Z

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‎Origin

ChasonBot at 06:35, 20 December 2015

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-And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
+And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
-Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever
+And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name. And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not: Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.
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 ==Origin==
-Moloch (also spelled Molech) may have been an ancient Near Eastern deity.  He is known exclusively from references in the Jewish and Christian Bible, but the name is probably related to a Hebrew word for "king" and so may be a title for another god.  Some translators think he may have been the same as Milcom / Malkam, mentioned in the Bible as the national god of the Ammonites (living near present-day Jordan), whose name probably comes from the same root.
+Moloch (also spelled Molech) may have been an ancient Near Eastern deity.  He is known exclusively from references in the Jewish and Christian Bible, but the name is possibly related to a Hebrew word for "king" and so may be a title for another god.  Some translators think he may have been the same as Milcom / Malkam, mentioned in the Bible as the national god of the Ammonites (living near present-day Jordan), whose name probably comes from the same root.  Another popular theory is that Moloch isn't the name of a deity but a term for a type of sacrifice.
 Within the Bible, Moloch's name usually occurs in phrases referring to 'giving one's seed to Moloch' or making one's children 'pass through the fire to Moloch', which has traditionally been interpreted to mean that Moloch was a god who was served with human sacrifices.  These acts are said to have taken place at a site called Tophet, in the Valley of Hinnom, the Greek name for which was [[Gehennom]].

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 [[Altar]]s to Moloch can be found in the [[Valley of the Dead]], in [[Minetown#Orcish Town|Orcish Town]], in [[Orcus]]'s lair, in the [[Sanctum]], and in the [[Monk]] and [[Priest]] [[Quest]]s; but they are marked as [[unaligned]], and Moloch has nothing encouraging to say to you.  Unaligned altars in Quests and Minetown can be converted; those in [[Gehennom]] cannot, and Bad Things will happen if you try.
-Moloch makes his home in [[Gehennom]], so any [[prayer]]s there go to him instead of to your own god. This is a [[Bad idea|Bad Idea™]], since your god doesn't like people who like Moloch, and Moloch just plain doesn't like ''anyone''. [[Lightning]] and [[wide-angle disintegration beam]]s ahoy.
+Moloch makes his home in [[Gehennom]], so any [[prayer]]s there go to him instead of to your own god. Praying in Gehennom is a [[Bad idea|Bad Idea™]], since your god doesn't like people who like Moloch, and Moloch just plain doesn't like ''anyone''. [[Lightning]] and [[wide-angle disintegration beam]]s ahoy.
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 [[Altar]]s to Moloch can be found in the [[Valley of the Dead]], in [[Minetown#Orcish Town|Orcish Town]], in [[Orcus]]'s lair, in the [[Sanctum]], and in the [[Monk]] and [[Priest]] [[Quest]]s; but they are marked as [[unaligned]], and Moloch has nothing encouraging to say to you.  Unaligned altars in Quests and Minetown can be converted; those in [[Gehennom]] cannot, and Bad Things will happen if you try.
-Moloch makes his home in [[Gehennom]], so any prayers there go to him instead of to your own god. This is a [[Bad idea|Bad Idea™]], since your god doesn't like people who like Moloch, and Moloch just plain doesn't like ''anyone''. [[Lightning]] and [[wide-angle disintegration beam]]s ahoy.
+Moloch makes his home in [[Gehennom]], so any [[prayer]]s there go to him instead of to your own god. This is a [[Bad idea|Bad Idea™]], since your god doesn't like people who like Moloch, and Moloch just plain doesn't like ''anyone''. [[Lightning]] and [[wide-angle disintegration beam]]s ahoy.
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 [[Altar]]s to Moloch can be found in the [[Valley of the Dead]], in [[Minetown#Orcish Town|Orcish Town]], in [[Orcus]]'s lair, in the [[Sanctum]], and in the [[Monk]] and [[Priest]] [[Quest]]s; but they are marked as [[unaligned]], and Moloch has nothing encouraging to say to you.  Unaligned altars in Quests and Minetown can be converted; those in [[Gehennom]] cannot, and Bad Things will happen if you try.
-Moloch makes his home in [[Gehennom]], so any prayers there go to him instead of to your own god. This is a [[Bad idea|Bad Thing(tm)]], since your god doesn't like people who like Moloch, and Moloch just plain doesn't like ''anyone''. [[Lightning]] and [[wide-angle disintegration beam]]s ahoy.
+Moloch makes his home in [[Gehennom]], so any prayers there go to him instead of to your own god. This is a [[Bad idea|Bad Idea™]], since your god doesn't like people who like Moloch, and Moloch just plain doesn't like ''anyone''. [[Lightning]] and [[wide-angle disintegration beam]]s ahoy.
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 '''Moloch''' is the Luciferesque god mentioned in the [[introduction]] text as having stolen the '''[[Amulet of Yendor]]'''. He is, in this sense, the antagonist in the NetHack story.
-[[Altar]]s to Moloch can be found in the [[Valley of the Dead]], in [[https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Minetown#Orcish_Town|Orcish Town]] in [[Orcus]]'s lair, in the [[Sanctum]], and in the [[Monk]] and [[Priest]] [[Quest]]s; but they are marked as [[unaligned]], and Moloch has nothing encouraging to say to you.  Unaligned altars in Quests can be converted; those in [[Gehennom]] cannot, and Bad Things will happen if you try.
+[[Altar]]s to Moloch can be found in the [[Valley of the Dead]], in [[Minetown#Orcish Town|Orcish Town]], in [[Orcus]]'s lair, in the [[Sanctum]], and in the [[Monk]] and [[Priest]] [[Quest]]s; but they are marked as [[unaligned]], and Moloch has nothing encouraging to say to you.  Unaligned altars in Quests and Minetown can be converted; those in [[Gehennom]] cannot, and Bad Things will happen if you try.
 Moloch makes his home in [[Gehennom]], so any prayers there go to him instead of to your own god. This is a [[Bad idea|Bad Thing(tm)]], since your god doesn't like people who like Moloch, and Moloch just plain doesn't like ''anyone''. [[Lightning]] and [[wide-angle disintegration beam]]s ahoy.
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 Moloch is a biblical allusion. He is portrayed as an evil god demanding human sacrifices including children.
-He is probably a reference to real foreign gods in the region at the time. It's inconclusive if his worship really existed as such. There isn't conclusive evidence for human sacrifices either. It's probably just propaganda.
+He is probably a reference to real foreign gods in the region at the time. It's inconclusive if his worship really existed as such, nor is it conclusive that such human sacrifice took place.
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