If parents threw their children into the furnace to Molech, why should they not devote their daughters to Ishtar?
It was here, too, that the human sacrifices to the god Molech took place, where the victims were made "to pass through the fire."
The Carthaginians worshipped Amilear, and that name comes from the same source as Molech.
Nay, so much zeal might have propitiated the savage heart of a Molech.
Children may once have “passed through fire to Molech” where now the heaving turf shrouds the skeleton of a decayed church.
