Belus

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Belus in Latin or Belos in 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.

[edit] Other

• Belus (beetle), a genus of primitive weevils.