Moloch - Myth Encyclopedia - mythology, god, ancient, Roman, king, people, children, fire

Moloch Moloch, or Molech, was a god to whom some cultures of the ancient Near East sacrificed children. Some scholars have identified Moloch with Melqart, a god worshiped in the city of Tyre on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Roman sources state that a sculpture of Moloch stood in Carthage, a city in northern Africa. The people who performed the sacrifices there placed children on the outstretched hands of the statue, and t...

Summary of some interesting entries from the online dictionary of Symbols from University of Michigan

Sulfur as hellSourceURL: http://websites.umich.edu/~umfandsf/symbolismproject/symbolism.html/S/sulfur.html Sulfur According to Christian legend, sulfur is associated with HELL and the Devil (Cooper, 1978), and is often referred to as brimstone. Up one level Back to document index ShadowSourceURL: http://websites.umich.edu/~umfandsf/symbolismproject/symbolism.html/S/shadow.html ShadowWith light, the shadow is the Chinese yin and yang; shadows are often identified with a person...

Molech

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Molech (thing) See all of Molech, there is 1 more in this node. (thing) by Demerick Fri Sep 22 2006 at 3:44:50 Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.Leviticus 20:2 The Name The name Molech (sometimes spelled Moloch, Milcom...

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Philosopher AI - What is the symbolic representation that the color yellow serves in literature and film?

Philosopher AI - What is the symbolic representation that the color yellow serves in literature and film?SourceURL: https://philosopherai.com/philosopher/what-is-the-symbolic-representation-that-the-color-571a19 Philosopher AINew topicWhat is the symbolic representation that the color yellow serves in literature and film? ➹ Share ⟳ Try againI believe that the color yellow is symbolic of a child's naivety. It shows inexperience, and innocence in literature and film. For example, when we s...

1! (thing) by anyend - Everything2.com

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 1! (thing) See all of 1!, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by anyend Wed Sep 11 2002 at 17:44:43 On old mechanical typewriters, these are two keys (1 and !) you won't actually find on a QWERTY layout. The number row begins with a 2 above the Q, instead of 1. So, how do you type 1 or !? Well, 1 is easy. You use the lower case L. l vs 1. Before fonts, when the only type variation was pico or pica, 1 and l were indistinguish...

Burnt Orange heresy

Note that "burnt orange" could be a way to describe sepia, as in historic films from the 1930’s and before. -zas

Ultraviolence: On Color Out Of Space And Adapting Lovecraft

After a 10-year hiatus, director Richard Stanley returns with Color Out Of Space, a technicolor nightmare-scape based on a short story by horror author HP Lovecraft. Stanley takes the 19th-century work, one written with scientific detachment, and creates an intensely emotional narrative fit for 21st-century horror cinema. A colour, unable to be classified or defined, has consumed the very thoughts of a family who have descended onto an ancestral land as a respite from the city. Madness descen...

Realgar and Orpiment - Arsenic Sulfide Minerals

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ORANGE AS POISON in painting

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significance of milk

Additional idea added 2 July 2021 -zasMilky plants, such as lettuces, dandelions, sow-thistles, are its favourite dish. In a neighbouring village one was kept till by tradition it was supposed to be an hundred years old. An instance of vast longevity in such a poor reptile! dateNov 12, 2019ZAS Note from 12 Nov 2019 Storytelling and Science -Milk - Significance of Milk may be generally about the general intelligence and adaptability of mammals, all of whom make milk. Also, MLK - Martin Lu...

Chess in the Movies - Checkpoint

It's time to take a checkpoint on a subject introduced in Chess Obsessed(May 2019). I wrote, Back to that 'Chess in the Movies' page, I created it sometime around 2005. It might be worthwhile to survey images I've collected since then and, if I have enough examples, add another sub-page on the same topic. The referenced page is Chess in the Movies, and so far, without any real effort, I found 152 photos to work through. The following composite shows the first eight (ordered a...