Moloch

Moloch stands for:

• Moloch (religion) , Biblical name for Phoenician-Canaanite sacrificial rites which, according to biblical tradition, provided for the sacrifice of children by fire
• derived from it a merciless, all-devouring power, applied to metropolises in the critical sense of civilization

Title of works of literature, film and theatrical art:

• Moloch (1999) , Russian film directed by Alexander Nikolayevich Sokurov
• Moloch (2001) , Australian horror film directed by Ernie Clark
• Moloch (opera) , opera by Max von Schillings , premiered in Dresden in 1906
• Moloch. The Life of Moravagine , 1926 novel by Blaise Cendrars
• Moloch or the Goy World, novel by Henry Miller from 1927

As a pseudonym:

• Moloch (caricaturist) (real name: Hector Colomb , 1849–1909), French caricaturist
• Moloch (actor) (* 1982), German actor

In biology:

• Moloch horridus , Australian thorn devil , a lizard; sole representative of its genus
• Hylobates moloch , silver gibbon as a kind of gibbons
• Stygimoloch , a genus of dinosaur

The Moloch stands for:

• The Moloch, Russian story by Alexander Kuprin from 1896
• The Moloch (novel) , novel by Jakob Wassermann from 1902
• The Moloch. On the Americanization of the World, book by Karlheinz Deschner

See also:

Wiktionary: Moloch  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

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