The Seba library treats Moloch in 6 passages, across 4 authors (including Hillman, James, Neumann, Erich, Grof, Stanislav).
the puer hunger for more belongs more properly to Saturn and his greed, the wolf, Moloch, Bhoga, a rapacious eating of the world.
Hillman identifies Moloch as an archetypal image of the senex's insatiable appetitiveness, a synonym for Saturn's ravenous greed rather than a merely infantile oral complex.
, Senex & Puer, 2015thesis
even when they later appear in the patriarchate as genuine Terrible Father figures, e. g., Cronus or Moloch, their uroboric character is transparent so long as the symbolism of eating is in the foreground and hence their propinquity to the Great Mother.
Neumann argues that Moloch's archetypal significance lies in its uroboric character: despite patriarchal surface, the devouring god retains a fundamental kinship with the consuming Great Mother.
, The Origins and History of Consciousness (Princeton, 2019thesis
examples of wrathful deities would be Set, Hades, Ahriman, Kali, Moloch, Astarte, Huitzilopochtli, or Satan. In serial LSD sessions, these deities usually appear for the first time in the perinatal phase; in that context, the images of those gods representing dark forces are associated with the birth agony of BPM II and III.
Grof places Moloch among the transpersonal deities of darkness that emerge during perinatal LSD states, associating the figure with the agonies of constrictive birth matrices.
, Realms of the Human Unconscious: Observations from LSD Research, 1975thesis
Moloch 80, 83, 226
Index entries in Grof's LSD Psychotherapy confirm Moloch's recurrent presence across multiple chapters dealing with perinatal and transpersonal phenomenology.
, LSD Psychotherapy: The Healing Potential of Psychedelic Medicine, 1980supporting
Moloch 80, 83, 226
A parallel index in a variant edition of Grof's LSD Psychotherapy corroborates the same multi-chapter treatment of Moloch within the transpersonal schema.
, LSD Psychotherapy: Exploring the Frontiers of the Hidden Mind, 1980supporting
Es wurden zahlreiche Gefäße ausgegraben, die in mehreren Schichten übereinander angehauft waren und Knochen kleiner Tiere und neugeborener Kinder, Reste von Opfern, enthielten.
Otto's archaeological description of the Tophet — the sacrificial precinct associated with Canaanite child-offerings — supplies the historical-cultic ground from which psychological readings of Moloch as devouring deity derive.
, Die Götter Griechenlands (The Gods of Greece), 1929supporting