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Belus
Belus in Latin or Belos in  Greek transliteration is one of:People and deitiesBa‘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 DidoPygmalion 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".
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Belus
[Greek] The son of Poseidon by Libya, daughter of Epaphus, who was the son of Io and Zeus. Belus's most famous sons were Aegyptus and Danaus. The king of Sidon and father of Dido (Virgil I, 621, 729). The Latin name for the Semitic god Baal. 


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Bel (Greek, Latin) Ba`al (Chaldean) [from Semitic ba`al chief, lord] Lord, chief; one of the supreme gods of the Chaldeo- or Assyro-Babylonian pantheon: the second of the triad composed of Anu, Bel, and Ea. Assyriologists have assumed that Bel was simply the title of a deity, which they have designated as En-lil (the mighty lord). In the division of the universe into heaven, earth, and water, Bel was considered as the lord of the land, and his temple at Nippur was called E-kur (the mountain house), just as Ea's was the watery house.
There have been many Bels, which may be one of the reasons that in The Secret Doctrine Bel is made equivalent to the Sun, Jupiter, Saturn, and Mercury. As Bel or Ba`al means Lord, the title becomes applicable to any of the important celestial bodies.
According to one account, the creation of the world and especially of mankind is ascribed to Bel. He is also called father of the gods; and his consort, Belit, is called mother of the gods. His eldest son in Sin, god of the Moon. Bel also brings about the deluge which destroys humanity, showing his dual aspect of evolver and destroyer.
Bel has been associated with the Phoenician Baal, the supreme god of the Canaanites, conceived also as the protective power of generation and fertility, connected with the moon. His female counterpart, Ashtoreth (Astarte, Ishtar) was considered as the receptive goddess, also a lunar divinity. In later times the rites connected with these deities became degraded into licentious orgies; sacrifices were made, apparently even human sacrifices, but at one time Ba`al was worshiped as a sun god.
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. loose-fitting k.r(of ring, clothing). 2. blouse

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