Talk:Molchos

RFV discussion: September–October 2016
Definition:
 * 1) (Adonism) an evil deity.

Lots of Google Books hits, but most are in German and the viewable English ones are all surnames, place names, and scannos for moichos. The etymology is obviously bogus- the ending doesn't come from the Latin (nor even from the Greek). Chuck Entz (talk) 13:36, 7 September 2016 (UTC)
 * It does seem to be 'genuine' to some extent, if you see w:Adonism (we have no entry) it does mention a deity Molchos. Etymology could be genuine as well, though it wouldn't explain the ending. The Wikipedia seems to rely heavily on a single book in English (Hakl, Hans Thomas (2010). "Franz Sättler (Dr. Musallam) and the Twentieth-Century Cult of Adonism". The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies Volume 12.1. London.) with another book in German being used once in the references. Presumably the one book in English would count as a reference, as long as it turns out not to be bogus. Renard Migrant (talk) 16:36, 10 September 2016 (UTC)
 * RFV failed. literally produces not a single English cite. Scholar found me two cites (Hakl and someone quoting Hakl, so only one independent cite), which I'm going to leave on the Citations tab in case two more cites become available in the future. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 17:41, 9 October 2016 (UTC)