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Tophet (Hebrew????) is believed to be a location in Jerusalem, in the Valley of Hinnom, where the Canaanites sacrificed children to the god Moloch by burning them alive. After the practice of child sacrifice was outlawed by King Josiah, the valley became a refuse site where animal carcasses, waste and the bodies of criminals were dumped, with fires permanently burning to keep disease at bay. Tophet became a synonym for hell. In modern Hebrew, the term is a used in reference to the Holocaust. The name is possibly derived from the Hebrew toph = drum, because drums were used to drown the cries of children. From Robert Browning's poem, Childe Roland To The Dark Tower Came, stanza 24. "Another phenomenon, still more strikingly modern, was a package of lucifer-matches, which, in old times, would have been thought actually to borrow their instantaneous flame from the nether fires of Tophet."
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