Belus
Belus in
Latin or
Belos in accurate
Greek transliteration is one of:
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Ba‘al: a title ("lord") in northwest Semitic languages, often applied to particular gods.
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Bel: a title ("lord") in
Akkadian, especially applied to the
Babylonian god
Marduk but also used of other gods.
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Belus (Babylonian): the Greek
Zeus Belos and Latin
Jupiter Belus as translations of the Babylonian god Bel
Marduk or an
euhemerized version of that god.
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Belus (Assyrian): an ancient king of
Assyria in classical, legendary history on the edge of
Greek mythology.
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Belus (Egyptian) (sometimes called Belus I): in
Greek mythology the son of
Poseidon by
Libya, King of
Egypt, and father of the eponymous
Aegyptus and
Danaus.
* Belus II. See
Dido. In Virgil's
Aeneid (and some later works) he is king of
Tyre and father of
Dido,
Pygmalion of Tyre, and Anna. As such this Belus is to be equated with the historical King
Matan I of Tyre.
* Belus (Lydian). See
Omphale. He was a grandson of Heracles and ancestor of the Heraclid dynasty in
Lydia according to
Herodotus.
*
Belenus, a
Celtic god; his name is sometimes written "Belus".
*
Belus (mountain), a mountain in
Syria.
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Belus River, a river in
Israel.
