When the Spirit Cooking story broke down , some leaked emails contained references of sacrifices to Moloch , which is an antique Caananite deity that accepts children as offerings . You can find more about it . You see the ' drawers ' on the statue ? Each one of them should be filled an ' item ', one of them being newborns to be burned . That actually happened in some point of history , in Carthage IIRC . Jewish website telling the story , better than Wikipedia . It is also said that an Owl statue in Bohemian Grove a place where modern rituals would be performed is a representation of Moloch , but I haven ' t found any mention of this simbolism . <| sep |> Read the fucking article for fucks sake . They are paid by the mile .