Counter Terrorism and Regenticide in Carthage - The Warning of Moloch

Now is a festival of children young and old, of whom I count in myself in this good season.
Should it be a bad time? I would not recommend it to be a bad time.

But darker events in the political realms of ancient Kings and would-be kings exist. It may be better for Halloween.

And such is Moloch which is MLK molok, derived from the word Melech, King/Ruler.
The clues are there in it being rare, of the nobility and hidden bastards of the King. And the Best, they said. This it can be noted was not a part of the religion of the gods, of Baal. It is instead political.

King Solomon of Israel build a number of temples and shrines to god like Chemosh-Sol, sex goddess Astarte but also to demons, including a Moloch in the vale of Hell which is Gehenna or gehinnom vale. Quite a nice park in reality. But fables and stories can get exploited and carried away in the enthusiasm.

'The Best should be chosen as next King!'
The best is a mark; in arab custom the best of the royals/or nobles is chosen as the new tribal ruler/Chief or King. Such a custom works today well in Sauid Arabia. But it conflicts with the obvious line of succession used in European Monarchies for good or ill. This custom worked against The Prophet Mohammed's chosen successor Ali the 'greatest swordsman of Arabia', as he was young, and in favour of the very capable Abu Bakr, a land owner in Medina, who became first Caliph.
Such then were the plots against the King and succession by accepted arab standards?
But not so accepted by Kings of old.

The Carthage nobility was a plutocracy based on wealth rather than title. Wealth is usually inherited so there was little difference at times. It was a benevolent plutocracy that could rival the King, before Carthage became a republic,  and provided work and pay to all the population for political stability which worked so well it was recommended as a model of stable and good government. This way peace and prosperity could endure; which was favoured. Such success would be disfavored in America and UK and Europe ofcourse. And is. For...can All be King?

There are no mentions of Moloch in the Baal Legends; it is the opposite of the life giving hedonistic Baal gods of prosperity and life enjoyment. Fire is not rain after all. But rather it's antagonist, like Mot or Yaw, dangers of the desert drought, and conversely of waters and oceans too.

Being of the nobles and their hidden plots, Moloch had no part in the lives of the common citizens. Nor usually the merchant-nobles either. It had no connection to the Baal cult and was rather a dark inversion of the usual idea.  Moloch was a political demon, a sign and warning against...terrorism and regicide and revolt. Of a type of revolt anyway.

For in trying to make a noblest of them all to become king, instead they were preparing the sacrifice to be made along with a lamb... foreboding dark evil.

Jesus a Christ would be king of the Jews; and was executed as such by Jew and Roman. In this chaos to the Christians he was declared the lamb of god; which represented the for-saker demon-god EL as Moloch, as as demi-urge tyrant. Such was the disaster, as the battle of Uhud almost was to the then still Moslems of Allah when Hu'Bal (hu'Baal For Baal) showed his might with the Meccan Army.

I will not speak more of plaything Balah since events have led to an estrangement with Baal. So it was with Yahweh and Asherah (an Ashtaroth).

Better festival then is now before us. A gift of the ancient druids. Of Joy and a child's delight. Such joy was very much the idea of the cult of the Baals, of whom Moloch was not.

And of Imperial Rome;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudius
'...However, after the deaths of Caligula's wife and daughter, it became apparent that Cassius intended to go beyond the terms of the conspiracy and wipe out the Imperial family.^[10]
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.fuck em