Question
In Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, Freder hallucinates a machine overheating as slaves march into the mouth of this deity. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this Canaanite fire god whose idols were built in and around a massive furnace. Leviticus denounces child sacrifice to this god at the Tophet.
ANSWER: Moloch [or Molech]
[10h] Greco-Roman sources claim that Carthaginian child sacrifice was instead to this deity, whom they identified with Cronus. The first name of this chief god of Carthage and partner of Tanit was shared by several Semitic gods that Christian eschatology identifies as Beezelbub.
ANSWER: Ba’al Hammon [or Baʿal Karnaim; prompt on Ba’al]
[10e] Greek depictions of metallic Moloch idols with the head of this animal may have been inspired by a “brazen” torture device shaped like one of these animals. The minotaur is half-human half-this animal.
ANSWER: bull [accept the brazen bull; prompt on cow]
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