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  Belus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Belus in Latin or Belos in accurate Greek transliteration is one of:
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.
As such this Belus is to be equated with the historical King Matan I of Tyre.
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 Belus (Babylonian) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Belus or Belos in classical Greek or classical Latin texts (and later material based on them) in a Babylonian context refers to the Babylonian god Bel Marduk.
Though often identified with Greek Zeus and Latin Jupiter as Zeus Belos or Jupiter Belus, in other cases Belus is euhemerized as an ancient king who founded Babylon and built the ziggurat.
See Belus (Egyptian) for statements that Belus in reference to the Babylonian Zeus Belus actually refers to the Belus of Greek mythology, son of Poseidon by Libya.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Belus_(Babylonian)   (306 words)

  
 Bel (mythology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bel is represented in Greek and Latin by Belos and Belus respectively.
Bel became especially used of the Babylonian god Marduk and when found in Assyrian and neo-Babylonian personal names or mentioned in inscriptions in Mesoptamian context it can usually be taken as referring to Marduk and no other god.
Similarly Zeus Belus mentioned by Sanchuniathon as born to Cronus/El in Peraea is certainly most unlikely to be Marduk.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bel_(mythology)   (398 words)

  
 Chapter 3. The Babylonian Story Of The Creation Page 4
Belus then, seeing the void thus made, ordered one of the gods to take off his head, and mix the blood with the soil, forming other men and animals which should be able to bear the light.
Whether this repetition was really in the Babylonian legend, or whether Berosus (or those who quote him) has merely inserted and united two varying accounts, will only be known when the cuneiform text is completed.
Whilst dealing with this part of the religious beliefs of the Babylonians, a few words are needed concerning the creation-story which is prefixed to an incantation used in a purification ceremony.
web-books.com /Classics/Nonfiction/Religion/Babylonia/BabyloniaC3P4.htm   (760 words)

  
 Easton's Bible Dictionary, BABE - BANQUET
Their object in building this tower was probably that it might be seen as a rallying-point in the extensive plain of Shinar, to which they had emigrated from the uplands of Armenia, and so prevent their being scattered abroad.
The Temple of Belus, which is supposed to occupy its site, is described by the Greek historian Herodotus as a temple of great extent and magnificence, erected by the Babylonians for their god Belus.
The last monarch of the Babylonian empire was Nabonidus (Nabu-nahid), B.C. 555-538, whose eldest son, Belshazzar (Bilu-sar-uzur), is mentioned in several inscriptions.
www.godrules.net /library/eastons/eastons13.htm   (3241 words)

  
 The Child in Assyria
Ninus is said to have been the son of Belus or Bel, and Bel is said to have been the founder of Babylon.
The distinguished Gesenius identifies him with the Babylonian Nebo, as the prophetic god; and a statement of Hyginus shows that he was known as the grand agent in that movement which produced the division of tongues.
The real reason that Semiramis, the wife of Ninus, gained the glory of finishing the fortifications of Babylon, was, that she came in the esteem of the ancient idolaters to hold a preponderating position, and have attributed to her all the different characters that belonged, or were supposed to belong, to her husband.
www.biblebelievers.org.au /2bab008.htm   (3717 words)

  
 The Image of the Beast
In the old Babylonian Paganism, there was an image of the Beast from the sea; and when it is known what that image was, the question will, I think, be fairly decided.
When Dagon was first set up to be worshipped, while he was represented in many different ways, and exhibited in many different characters, the favourite form in which he was worshipped, as the reader well knows, was that of a child in his mother's arms.
But in the Babylonian system all this was found; and all this is now incorporated in the system of Rome.
www.biblebelievers.org.au /2bab034.htm   (910 words)

  
 BibleMaster.com - Study Aids - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
According to Genesis 10:9, the founder of Babylon was Nimrod, but among the Babylonians, it was Merodach who built the city, together with Erech and Niffer (Calneh) and their renowned temples.
He seems to speak of the temple of Belus (see BABEL, TOWER OF) as being surmounted by three statues--Bel (Bel-Merodach), 40 ft. high, his mother Rhea (Dawkina, the Dauke of Damascius), and Bel-Merodach's spouse Juno or Beltis (Zer-panitum).
Certain of the streets of Babylon are also referred to on the contract-tablets, and such descriptive indications as "the broad street which is at the southern gate of the temple E-tur- kalama" seem to show that they were not in all cases systematically named.
www.biblemaster.com /bible/ency/isb/view.asp?number=1071   (4865 words)

  
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Belus who was by me, read as much in my eyes and shook his head, saying, "Snakes are very hard to kill, my son, as I who have hunted one for years, know as well as any man and better than most.
Belus learned this from spies whom we had taken, but who, it seemed, belonged to some secret brotherhood of which he was a chief.
Belus told me that he had visited this camp at the break of day, hoping to learn something of the lady Mysia, who while she was dying, had told me that she was the daughter of a Jewish king.
etext.library.adelaide.edu.au /pgaus/ebooks03/0300971.txt   (21611 words)

  
 Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire: Chapter XI. The Strange Races of Chaldea
Belus (Nimrod), king of Chaldea serves to unite the Chaldeans with the Old Race of the Upper Nile, as does their building the temple of Anu,
The original name of Nippur was Belus, it was the capital of Chaldea during the most important part of its existence and perhaps the longest.
Babylonians of later days looked back upon the reign of Hammurabi as the golden age of their history.
www.sacred-texts.com /afr/we/we14.htm   (5245 words)

  
 Random Works of the Web » Blog Archive » Belus (Assyrian)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Belus or Belos in classical Greek or classical Latin texts (and later material based on them) in an Assyrian context refers to one or another purportedly ancient and historically nonexistent Assyrian king, such king in part at least an euhemerization of the Babylonian god Bel Marduk.
Belus most commonly appears as the father of Ninus who otherwise mostly appears as the first known Assyian king.
After the disappearance of Zeus Picus (who apparently reigned over both Italy and Assyria), Belus son of Zeus Picus succeeded to the throne in Assyria (and we later find Faunus who is elswhere always the son of Picus reigning in Italy before moving to Egypt and turning into Hermes Trismegistus father of Hephaestus!).
random.dragonslife.org /belus-assyrian/3742   (617 words)

  
 Re: ID's-V: Salah is W. Semetic Bul-El   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
As for Belus, the Greek Sun God, he is shown to be the Greek equivalent of the Bible's Baal or Baali, the Bel of the Apocrypha's "Bel and the Dragon".
The evidence in support of this is, that Belus was the vanquisher of the matriarch Belili, from whom he obtained his victor's name, Beli, probably at this time, changing his name Helios to Bel.
Re: ID's-I: Salah of Genesis is the Sidonian Belus
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That the Babylonians regarded the primitive gods as powers of evil is clear from the fact that Lakhamu, one of them, is enumerated among the allies of Tiâmat.
The Babylonians believed that the will of the gods was made known to men by the motions of the planets, and that careful observation of them would enable the skilled seer to recognize in the stars favourable and unfavourable portents.
But some authorities deny the existence of monotheistic conceptions among the Babylonians at that time, and attribute Marduk's kingship of the gods to the influence of the political situation of the time, when Babylon first became the capital of the country, and mistress of the greater part of the known world.
fax.libs.uga.edu /BL1620xB7/1f/babylonian_legends_of_creation.txt   (13133 words)

  
 Eupolemus - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
For the Babylonians say that the first was Belus, who is the same as Cronus, and that of him were born sons named Belus and Canaan.
Traditionally many translators have emended Canaan to Cham, that is Ham since in Genesis 10.6 Ham is the father of Cush and Mizraim.
However the author here claims to be relating Babylonian tradition, not Hebrew tradition, for whatever that is worth.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Eupolemus   (866 words)

  
 The World's Final Religion
The man ruled politically and was the head of the Babylonian State; the woman ruled religiously and was the head of the pagan system of religion and idolatry.
Though the rites which were observed in the Babylonian false religion differed greatly in various localities, there usually was a priestly order which furthered the worship of the mother child, practiced the sprinkling of holy water, and established an order of virgins dedicated to religious prostitution.
The chief priests of the Babylonian cult wore crowns in the form of the head of a fish, in recognition of Dagon, the fish god, with the title 'Keeper of the Bridge,' that is the 'bridge' between man and Satan, imprinted on the crowns.
toulonbaptist.com /sermons/000319.htm   (6370 words)

  
 The Babylonian Legends of the Creation
It is therefore not surprising to find that his account of the Babylonian beliefs about the origin of things corresponds very closely with that given in the cuneiform texts, and that it is of the greatest use in explaining and partly in expanding these texts.
All things being in this situation, Belus came, and cut the woman asunder: and of one half of her he formed the earth, and of the other half the heavens; and at the same time destroyed the animals within her.
She is depicted as a ferocious monster with wings and scales and terrible claws, and her body is sometimes that of a huge serpent, and sometimes that of an animal.
www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/etext06/8blgc10h.htm   (16235 words)

  
 The Babylonian Brotherhood
This was a wonderful tool for the Babylonian priesthood to impose their will on the populous and exactly the same scam has been played by their successors, the Christian priests, the Rabbis and the priesthood's of Ishim, Hinduism and all the rest.
The Babylonian priests were required to eat some of their sacrificial offerings and so the word for priest, Calina-Bal, became the term for eating human flesh, cannibal.
That the Babylonians were part of the Aryan race is confirmed by ancient inscriptions and titles.
usnisa.org /babylon.html   (12975 words)

  
 bible.org: ISBE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The name of the great capital of ancient Babylonia, the Shinar of Gen 10:10; 14:1, other names of the city being Tin-dir, "seat of life," E (ki), probably an abbreviation of Eridu (ki) "the good city" (=Paradise), Babylonia having seemingly been regarded as the Garden of Eden (PSBA, June 1911, p.
According to Gen 10:9, the founder of Babylon was Nimrod, but among the Babylonians, it was Merodach who built the city, together with Erech and Niffer (Calneh) and their renowned temples.
Certain of the streets of Babylon are also referred to on the contract-tablets, and such descriptive indications as "the broad street which is at the southern gate of the temple E-tur-kalama" seem to show that they were not in all cases systematically named.
www.bible.org /isbe.asp?id=1071   (4953 words)

  
 g10
According to the Semitic Babylonian traditions, he is called the god of the waters, who dwelt in his abode, the "Apsu"--the ocean or abyss of waters.
Belus or Bel was the son of Poseidon and Lybia(Eurynome).
Belus is also said to be the father of Pygmalion, and Ninus the most famous Ruler of the Assyrians.
www.weirdvideos.com /g10.html   (8602 words)

  
 Easton's Bible Dictionary
But God interposed and defeated their design by confounding their language, and hence the name Babel, meaning "confusion." In the Babylonian tablets there is an account of this event, and also of the creation and the deluge.
(See CHALDEA.) The Temple of Belus, which is supposed to occupy its site, is described by the Greek historian Herodotus as a temple of great extent and magnificence, erected by the Babylonians for their god Belus.
The last monarch of the Babylonian empire was Nabonidus (Nabu-nahid), B.C.555-538, whose eldest son, Belshazzar (Bilu-sar-uzur), is mentioned in several inscriptions.
www.sacred-texts.com /bib/ebd/ebd041.htm   (1733 words)

  
 Baal-shalisha - Beelzebub -- Adam2.org
Babylon - the Greek form of BABEL; Semitic form Babilu, meaning "The Gate of God." In the Assyrian tablets it means "The city of the dispersion of the tribes." The monumental list of its kings reaches back to B.C. 2300, and includes Khammurabi, or Amraphel (q.v.), the contemporary of Abraham.
To him Jeremiah dictated his prophecies regarding the invasion of the Babylonians and the Captivity.
These he read to the people from a window in the temple in the fourth year of the reign of Jehoiakim, king of Judah (Jer.
www.adam2.org /eastons/ebd/T0000400.html   (8858 words)

  
 Easton's Bible Dictionary: Baal-shalisha to Bar-jona
The Greek form of BABEL; Semitic form Babilu, meaning "The Gate of God." In the Assyrian tablets it means "The city of the dispersion of the tribes." The monumental list of its kings reaches back to B.C. 2300, and includes Khammurabi, or Amraphel (q.v.), the contemporary of Abraham.
Balaam was constrained to utter prophecies regarding the future of Israel of wonderful magnificence and beauty of expression (Num.
He has given a son, the father of the Babylonian king (2 Ki.
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 The Two Babylons (7)
Proceeding, then, on these deductions, it is not difficult to see how it might be said that Bel or Belus, the father of Ninus, founded Babylon, while, nevertheless, Ninus or Nimrod was properly the builder of it.
Bel, when we have seen that the historical Bel is Cush, the identity of Ninus and Nimrod is still further confirmed.
We have the express testimony of the ancient historian, Megasthenes, as preserved by Abydenus, that it was "Belus" who "surrounded Babylon with a wall." As "Bel," the Confounder, who began the city and tower of Babel, had to leave both unfinished, this could not refer to him.
www.destiny-worldwide.net /rcg/history/2BABY/BAB07.HTM   (1576 words)

  
 Baa
On the fall of Nineveh (B.C. it threw off the Assyrian yoke, and became the capital of the growing Babylonian empire.
When Nineveh was destroyed, B.C. Nabopolassar, the viceroy of Babylonia, who seems to have been of Chaldean descent, made himself independent.
NICOLAITANES.) Balaam was constrained to utter prophecies regarding the future of Israel of wonderful magnificence and beauty of expression (Num.
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 deception6
"This also accounts for the fact that the body of the Babylonian Belus (Nimrod) was represented as having been preserved in his sepulchre.
These three, the husband, the wife, and her illegitimate son, came to be worshipped in many symbolic forms, and under many Babylonian names.
The worshippers were at first told that in adoring these symbols (idols, trees, animals, periods of time, etc.) they were actually worshipping the members of her family.
www.giveshare.org /library/satandeception/deception6.html   (3721 words)

  
 Belus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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