Belus
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Belus in Latin or Belos in accurate Greek transliteration is one of:
[edit] 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".
[edit] Geography
- Belus (mountain), a mountain in Syria.
- Belus River, a river in Israel.
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