Moloch for the Minotaur
11 March 2025
Peter Howitt
2 min read·
Fearful people
Do terrible things
They are so easily tempted
Frightened into
Wagering with Satan
Guaranteed
Damnation
The people of Canaan
(To appease
Great powers or
Avoid defeat)
Sacrificed
Their most innocent
(Some say to Yahweh)
A dreadful gift
No din of drums
Could ever drown
The sounds
Of children
Shrieking out
In their
Unbearable
Honour
And yet this cult
Can still be found
Even here in
Great Europa
Where learned
Democrats
Perfect
An age-old
Substitution trick
Gifting the
Gods of war
The beloved
Of another tribe
In place of
Our own
In Gaza alone
Twenty thousand
Or more
Little
Loving
Burnt offerings
Screaming
And this poem
My pathetic expiation
Yet still
The malevolent
Kahanist devils
Can not be placated
And the raging
Blood-lust of the
American bull
Will not be sated
And we
(Who did not
Light the fires or
Wield the knife)
Can never be cleansed
Can never get this
Damned blood
Off our hands
Further reading:
The evolving story of Moloch as a form of child sacrifice: traditionally it was considered to be an old Canaanite god but more recently the evidence points to Moloch being the name for the sacrifice itself. Traditionally, Moloch was soften described as a practice of placing children inside or on a burning hot metal effigy. The effigy has the body of a man and the head of a bull and its arms are held out ready for offerings. However, it is still not clear whether it was an actual child sacrifice or a pagan hangover which involved a painful fiery rite of passage.
Wikipedia is a good start to research this practice and has some great sources. This one is particularly good ‘Human sacrifice in Jewish and Christian tradition. Brill. pp. 109–132. ISBN 978-9004150850.
According to tradition, the Minotaur was a part man part bull offspring of King Minos of Crete’s wife Pasiphaë and a bull that she was impelled to fall in love with. This was as punishment from Poseidon to Minos for substituting the bull in a sacrificial offering that was made to Poseidon. The Minotaur was held in a labyrinth in Crete. Every nine years the people of Athens had to choose seven men and seven women to be offered as sacrificial victims to the Minotaur in retribution for the death of Minos’s son Androgeos.
Child sacrifice in Gaza:
The conflict in Gaza has been particularly deadly for Palestinian children
These serious violations of children's rights flout IHL. The ceasefire agreement must put an end to this suffering. We have not forgotten the suffering endured by Israeli children.
As of 4 March 2025, over 50,000 people – 48,405 Palestinian[3][8] and 1,706 Israeli[b] – have been reported killed in the Gaza war according to the official figures of the Gaza Health Ministry, as well as 166 journalists and media workers,[c] 120 academics,[27] and over 224 humanitarian aid workers, a number that includes 179 employees of UNRWA.[28] Scholars have estimated 80% of Palestinians killed are civilians.[5][4][6][29] A study by OHCHR, that verified fatalities from three independent sources, found that 70% of the Palestinian killed in residential buildings or similar housing were women and children.[30][31] (Wikipedia)
The estimated number of children killed as of 09 March 2025 is now over 20,000:
"As of March 2025, the total Palestinian death toll in Gaza exceeds 48,000, with women and children constituting between 53% and 70% of fatalities, depending on the timeframe and methodology of analysis."
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Commentary:
The central premise of the poem is that Europe has been giving their tribute to the American gods of war for a long time. This appeasement has involved sacrifices of many lives over the last 80 years since WW2. In truth, too many were largely fine with these sacrifices (Moloch) to the Minotaur as long as it was other people’s children – particularly Arabs and Muslims in the Middle East. However, that is no longer enough. In seeking to avoid facing the growing problem of American-Israeli violence we have helped to increase the power of the Minotaur which now demands ever greater tribute and sacrifices – and so our children may be next anyway.
Arabs and Muslims are the 21st century’s Jews. The undefended vilified ‘other’. It is Nazified thinking either by racist fascists or, more banally and more often, those that have thoughtlessly forgotten to pay attention to recent European history and basic ethical principles. It must never again for everyone or it is for no one.
If you would like to know more about the Kahanist alliance with Likud (the party leading the Israeli Govt) I recommend reading this article and this.
For the record: I am pro-Jewish just not fascist Jews who are in love with murder and cruelty and who will also destroy Israel eventually (just as Hitler destroyed Germany).
