Word: moloch
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...panels chronicle religion from its most “material” phase, represented by “the idols of Canaan” (Moloch, Astarte and Neith), through the early, “dogmatic” Christian church (represented by the Crucifixion and allegorical visions of church and synagogue) toward a more inner, “spiritual” phase (represented by the Sermon on the Mount...
...There is always as much in front as behind. There is no libretto. History knocks at a thousand gates at every moment, and the gatekeeper is chance. ... We need wit and courage to make our way while our way is making us. ... What kind of beast is this ... this Moloch who promises us that everything will be beautiful after we're dead? A distant end is not an end but a trap. The end we work for must be closer: the labourer's wage, the pleasure in the work done, the summer lightning of personal happiness... we have to open...
...Elvis was the King, the monarch of proto-pop, Jerry Lee was Moloch, the pagan deity of the Middle East whose worship involved the sacrifice of children. The early-surly Elvis, once under the stern tutelage of the illegal immigrant from the Netherlands who called himself Col. Tom Parker, was processed and pasteurized into a nice young man who went Hollywood (and Vegas) almost as soon as he became a star. Jerry Lee, who had and would tolerate no image-makeover Svengali, wore the musk of venereal danger, styled himself as a reckless teen girl's wet dream...
...Except that Presley was from Tupelo, Miss., Jerry Lee in Ferriday, La. He was born September 29, 1935, 274 days after Elvis, in Ferriday, La. Among his cousins were Swaggart and Mickey Gilley, who much later would mimic Jerry Lee's style and sell far more singles than the Moloch...