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Anonymous asked in Society & CultureReligion & Spirituality · 5 days ago

What were children give to Baal?

What's the difference to Moloch?

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  • Anonymous
    5 days ago

    Baal is equivalent to Belos, Bel Marduk, Zeus and assumes a "lord of the mountain" and "storm god" role in paganism. Baal was the son of the Canaanite El - equivalent to Kronos and Saturn. Kronos is said to have devoured his children and also represents time and old age. Zeus overthrew Kronos and took his role as the ruler of the gods. Both figures represent kingship. Moloch (similar to "melech" i.e. "king") is essentially the Kronos archetype - for this reason child sacrifice was ritualized within cults that were devoted to him. As Zeus took the place of Kronos, Baal (literally "lord") also took the place of El, and also required child sacrifice. The child sacrifice ritual was symbolic to how kings required their subjects to die for them in wars, whored out their daughters, and sacrifice their freedoms and claimed the products of their labor. For this reason Samuel warned the ancient Israelites from electing a king.

    Source(s): 1 Samuel 8:10-18
  • 5 days ago

    Children given to Baal were sacrificed.  Children given to Moloch were burned alive.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    5 days ago

    nobody cares what people did with fake worthless gods...TRUE GOD IS JESUS!!

  • ?
    Lv 7
    5 days ago

    Do you mean "Why were children given to Baal ?" or do you mean "What did children give to Baal?"

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