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by scandox 2248 days ago
I think this is a bit distracting. It's an ancient name. Probably a better paragraph to fixate on would be:

> Moloch has been used figuratively in English literature from John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667) to Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" (1955), to refer to a person or thing demanding or requiring a very costly sacrifice.

I mean a project called Zeus would hardly founder on it's namesakes fetish for turning into a bull and assaulting human women.

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Zeus is known a bit better and for more things than Moloch
But today everyone knows about Zeus huge sex drive.
Am I the only one who thinks of Moloch aka Edgar Jacobi, the old villain in Watchmen dying of cancer?