BELUS

'Belus' in Latin or 'Belos' in Greek transliteration is one of:

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People and deities

Geography

People and deities

★ Ba‘al: a title ("lord") in northwest Semitic languages, often applied to particular gods.

★ Bel: a title ("lord") in Akkadian, especially applied to the Babylonian god Marduk but also used of other gods.

★ 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.

★ Belus (Assyrian): an ancient king of Assyria in classical, legendary history on the edge of Greek mythology.

★ 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. Father of Dido, Pygmalion of Tyre, and Anna. Perhaps identical to 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".

Geography

★ Belus (mountain), a mountain in Syria.

★ Belus River, a river in Israel.