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Fishes, Flowers & Fire as Elements and Deities in the Phallic Faiths & Worship of the Ancient Religions of Greece, Babylon, Rome, India, &C., with Illustrative Myths and Legends Volume 4


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1800 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII. Paradise Lost and Moloch--The God of the Ammonites--The slaughter of Children by Fire, notices in the Scriptures--Fire Ceremonies and Moloch--Sacred Fires of the Phoenicians--The Carthaginians--Custom of the Oziese--Sardinian Customs and Moloch--The Cuthites--Persian Fire Worship--The House-Fires of Greece and Rome--Sacred Books of the East--Laws of Manu--The Rig Veda and Hymns to Agni, the God of Fire--Vesta, worship of--The Magi--Zoroaster. IN Milton's " Paradise Lost " we read: --" First, Moloch, horrid king, besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears; Though for the noise of drnms and timbrels loud, Their children's cries unheard, that passed through fire, To his grim idol. Him the Ammonite Worshipped in Babba and her watery plain, In Argob and in Basan, to the stream Of utmost Arnon: nor content with such Audacious neighbourhood, the wisest heart Of Solomon he led by fraud to build His temple right against the temple of God, On that opprobrious hill, and made his grove The pleasant valley of Hinnom, Tophet thence And black Gehenna called, the type of Hell." "Moloch was the god of the Ammonites. In the wors!: ip and sacrifices in his honour they burnt their sons and daughters, with the accustomed forms and ceremonies." In Leviticus xviii. 21 we find a prohibition of passing the children through the fire and in chapter xx. the punishment of death by stoning is awarded to any who gave their seed to Moloch. " However," says Selden, " many of the Hebrews write that the children were neither burnt nor slain, but that two funeral pyres were constructed by the priests of Moloch, and that they led the children only between the pyres, as if in this way to purify them. Moses Ben Maimon says that in those days the servitors of the fires...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781458814418
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 38
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1458814416
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 86 gr


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