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	Busiris - LoveToKnow 1911
		BUSIRIS, in a Greek legend preserved in a fragment of Pherecydes, an Egyptian king, son of Poseidon and Lyssianassa.
		Busiris is here probably an earlier and less accurate Graecism than Osiris for the name of the Egyptian god Usiri, like Bubastis, Buto, for the goddesses Ubasti and Uto.
		The name Busiris in this legend may have been caught up merely at random by the early Greeks, or they may have vaguely connected their legend with the Egyptian myth of the slaying of Osiris (as king of Egypt) by his mighty brother Seth, who was in certain aspects a patron of foreigners.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Busiris (500 words)

	Busiris - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Busiris is the Greek name of a place in Egypt, which in Egyptian, was named djed (also spelt djedu).
		The word Busiris was also used as shorthand for chief god of Busiris, an attribute of Osiris.
		The annual sacrifice appears to be a greek metaphor, representing the apparent freezing of the sun's path, on its ecliptic, during the two weeks after the solstice (its being bound), and its near sacrifice (i.e.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Busiris (205 words)

	Frazer, Sir James George. 1922. The Golden Bough
		Busiris was said to have been an Egyptian king who sacrificed all strangers on the altar of Zeus.
		Here then is a legend that in Egypt a human victim was annually sacrificed to prevent the failure of the crops, and a belief is implied that an omission of the sacrifice would have entailed a recurrence of that infertility which it was the object of the sacrifice to prevent.
		The name Busiris was in reality the name of a city, pe-Asar, “the house of Osiris,” the city being so called because it contained the grave of Osiris.
	www.bartleby.com /196/pages/page443.html (598 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 518 (v. 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This last Busiris is described as the founder of the city of Zeus, which the Greeks called Thebes.
		Concerning this Busiris the following remarkable story is told:—Egypt had been visited for nine years by uninterrupted scarcity, and at last there came a soothsayer from Cyprus of the name of Phrasius, who declared, that the scarcity would cease if the Egyptians would sacrifice a foreigner to Zeus every year.
		Another story gives a Greek origin to the name Busiris, by saying that when I sis had collected the limbs of Osiris, who had been killed by Typhon, she put them together in a wooden cow (/3ous), whence the name of the town of Busiris was derived (Diod.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/0527.html (965 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Busiris
		This particular Busiris was situated in the middle of the Delta, on the Pathmitish, or Damietta Branch of the Nile.
		It now exists as a village under the last of these names and is to be distinguished from another similarly named town on the coast of Lydia.
		Busiris was the chief town of the Busirite nomos (Hierocles, Synecdemos 725,7) and became a see of Ægyptus Secunda.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03087a.htm (288 words)

	WP's No War In Troy (Jean Giraudoux; or Tiger At The Gates)
		Busiris My verdict, dear princes, after checking the case at the scene of action and subsequent hearing of witnesses is: the Greeks are responsible of a three time violation of the regulations of the international law against the Trojans.
		Busiris First they have hoisted their flag at the fore gallant yard and not at the top gallant yard.
		Busiris On the other hand the frontal formation can be interpreted as both, a wish to meet someone and as a provocation.
	www.fen-net.de /walter.preiss/e/any_troy.html (1121 words)

	Alice Bailey & Djwhal Khul - The Labors of Hercules - III - The Nature of the Test (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Busiris was a son of Poseidon, the god of the waters, but his mother was a mere mortal.
		Little by little he fell under the power and spell of Busiris; little by [63] little he yielded up his will and his mind and accepted him as his teacher and guide.
		Finally, when Busiris had Hercules entirely under his control, he bound him to the altar of sacrifice and forced him to forget Nereus.
	laluni.helloyou.ws /netnews/bk/hercules/herc1016.html (1334 words)

	Busiris
		In Greek mythology, there was a king of of Egypt, named Busiris, sometimes considered the son of Poseidon.
		This Busiris used to sacrifice strangers on an altar of Zeus in accordance with a certain oracle.
		Busiris began by slaughtering the seer himself and continued to slaughter the strangers who landed.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Mythology/Busiris.html (378 words)

	NPNF2-02. Socrates and Sozomenus Ecclesiastical Histories \| Christian Classics Ethereal Library
		It is said that Busiris also obtained renown at Ancyra, a city of Galatia, by his brilliant and most manly confession of religion.
		The governor was surprised at this proposition; but his astonishment was increased by what followed, for Busiris remained firm, holding up both hands and receiving the blows while his sides were being torn with hooks, according to the governor’s direction.
		Immediately afterwards, Busiris was consigned to prison, but was released not long subsequently, on the announcement of the death of Julian.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/npnf202.iii.x.xi.html (610 words)

	BUSIRIS - Online Information article about BUSIRIS
		It is here that Busiris enters into the circle of the myths and parerga of Heracles, who had arrived in Egypt from See also:
		Various esoterical explanations were given of the myth, and the name not found as a king was recognized as that of the See also:
		Busiris is here probably an earlier and less accurate Graecism than Osiris for the name of the Egyptian god Usiri, like See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /BUN_CAL/BUSIRIS.html (773 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		I saw that it was her shawl that had tripped Busiris.
		I was puzzled, then I recalled that Busiris was supposedly a soul inhabiting the body of a person named Jason.
		She was still lying on the floor, seemingly unable to move because of some grave wound, but she didn't lose any of her temper.
	members.tripod.com /Lichan/fanfiction/chap5.txt (4057 words)

	BUSIRUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Busiris, son of Neptune, was king of Egypt.
		Hercules went to Egypt, allowed himself to be led to the altar, then broke the chains and slew Busiris and his men (Met X 183; The Art of Love (Ars Amatoria) I.647-652).
		Busirus is a misspelling for Busiris, MkT 2103, and appears in final rhyming position.
	www.columbia.edu /dlc/garland/deweever/B/busirus.htm (210 words)

	Egyptian "Passion" Plays
		His wife, Isis, and his son, avenged his murder, gathered up the pieces of his body for pilgrimage relics, won back his throne and established the cult of Osiris-worship.
		We know that Passion plays in his memory were performed annually at Abydos, Busiris, Heliopolis, and elsewhere.
		The acting of those days must certainly have been quite as realistic as that of any modern stage, for later Greek historians tell us that many actor-warriors died of the wounds received in the "sham" battles between the enemies of Osiris and the forces led by his son, Ap-uat.
	www.theatrehistory.com /origins/egypt001.html (263 words)

	whippets in NM
		Busiris wants to know 'are we there yet?'
		Busiris already knows about brown dirt and tumble weeds...and approves.
		Busiris and Pod watcing the greyhounds on a jack.
	homepage.mac.com /merril/PhotoAlbum1.html (154 words)

	Busiris
		In Greek mythology, Busiris was a king of Egypt who sacrificed all visitors to the gods, hoping to avert a famine.
		Heracles defied him and broke his shackles at the last minute.
		Busiris' name was most likely derived from Osiris.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/b/bu/busiris.html (76 words)

	Busiris
		A mythical king of Egypt who, in order to avert a famine, used to sacrifice to the gods all strangers who set foot on his shores.
		Heracles was seized by him and would have fallen victim, but with his immense strength broke his chains and slew Busiris.
		Article "Busiris" created on 21 March 1999; last modified on 04 April 1999 (Revision 2).
	www.pantheon.org /articles/b/busiris.html (62 words)

	Attributed to the Darius Painter. Dinos with Herakles and Busiris (1984.11.7) \| Object Page \| Timeline of Art History \| ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		To the right of the altar and column stands Busiris, dressed in Oriental theater costume; he holds a scepter and brandishes a butcher's knife.
		The story, of course, had a happy ending: Herakles freed himself and turned the tables on his captors by killing Busiris and putting an end to the practice of human sacrifice.
		The stage costume worn by Busiris, coupled with the single column and the altar in the center of the scene, reveals that the Darius Painter has not depicted simply the story of Herakles and the Egyptian king, but a dramatic moment in a comedy based on it.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/sivp/hod_1984.11.7.htm (373 words)

	HERCULES IN GEMINI ~ THE MYTH
		Little by little he fell under the power and spell of Busiris; little by little he yielded up his will and his mind and accepted him as his teacher and guide.
		Being an air sign, we find that the conquest of the air proceeds with speed, and also a constant effort is made to unify and coordinate the many and varied aspects of human endeavor.
		The world today is full of teachers, and like Busiris, they base their teaching upon portentous claims; they claim to be initiates, to be the custodians of truth, and to have a sure and certain way of development which must inevitably enable the aspirant to achieve.
	www.souledout.org /hercules/herculesgemini/herculesgemini.html (6887 words)

	Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, page 105 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The land was afflicted for nine years with a series of bad harvests, and a prophet named Phrasius, of Cyprus, advised Busiris to sacrifice a stranger every year to Zeus.
		When Heracles came to Egypt during his quest for the apples of the Hesperides, he allowed himself to be bound and taken to the altar as a victim.
		His brother Lycurgus, whose life he had attempted, banished him, and he settled on the island of Strongyle or Naxos.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /seyffert/0108.html (714 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2002.08.32
		But Bernal, while admitting that the speech was on one level a rhetorical tour de force, insists that "to be convincing, the speech had to appeal to conventional wisdom" on the cultural indebtedness of Greece to Egypt (BA I, 103).
		Vasunia places much more emphasis on genre (an area that Bernal was criticized for slighting), arguing that one cannot read Busiris without taking into account the complex nature of its parody that "takes a fixed tradition and reasserts it, though in the guise reversing or altering it" (207).
		For example, Isocrates' Busiris is "a text that seldom troubles to grasp the realities of contemporary Egypt, that treats and handles ethnocentrism as if it were anti-ethnocentrism, that reeks of both condescension and arrogance, that retards rather than advances ethnic understanding, and that ultimately takes for granted the most pernicious of cultural stereotypes" (215).
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2002/2002-08-32.html (2413 words)

	EgyptSites - Abu Sir Bana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In the Osirian legend when the god’s body parts were scattered throughout Egypt, Busiris laid claim to the burial of the god’s backbone (represented by the Djed pillar).
		Like Abydos, which became known as the major cult centre of Osiris, Busiris was also a pilgrimage destination and is mentioned in many Old Kingdom texts, such as in the tomb of Ti at Saqqara as well as the Middle Kingdom tombs of Beni Hasan.
		Busiris was the capital of the 9th Lower Egyptian Nome, a town mentioned on the Victory Stela of Piye and in annals of the Assyrian King Assurbanipal.
	www.egyptsites.co.uk /lower/delta/central/abusirbana.html (205 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.09.37
		In Isocrates' account, Busiris becomes founder of Egyptian civilization, the author of a model constitution in the manner of Plato's Republic, and an exemplum of the sort of semi-divine figure that is to be embraced in a morally beneficial mythology.
		15-16 Isocrates attributes to Busiris the division of Egyptians into three classes, priests, workers, and soldiers, and the requirement for the same people always to practise the same professions.
		For a recent discussion of Busiris with particular emphasis on the myth's imagery, see Terry L. Papillon, "Rhetoric, Art and Myth: Isocrates and Busiris," in C. Wooten (ed.), The Orator in Action and Theory in Greece and Rome (Leiden 2001) pp.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2004/2004-09-37.html (1890 words)

	Busiris is coming back!
		Regarding the Temple of Hathor at ptolemaic Busiris, it is not related to the Kemetean concept of devotion to the Goddess of Fertility and Love but to the "khenemet" activity.
		As I started the "Legends of Busiris" thread five years ago, it seemed necessary to provide a visual background to the various roleplayers.
		The Busiris website took me a lot of time and efforts, especially since the real city has completly disappeared.
	www.ancientsites.com /aw/Journals/Journal/504013 (527 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Busiris
		The myth appears to be a corruption of a myth concerning Osiris' sacrifice by Seth, and subsequent resurrection.
		Busiris' name was most likely derived from Osiris, who was in Egypt, and the annual sacrifice a metaphorical representation of the apparant freezing of the sun's path on its ecliptic during the two weeks after the solstice (its being bound), and its near sacrifice (i.e.
		He appears as the leader of a revolt in Lucian's True Story (2.23)
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Busiris (274 words)

	::The Moths of Borneo::
		Panacra busiris Walker; Rothschild and Jordan, 1903: 536.
		The species has a striking green rectangle in the anterior half of the forewing, running from one quarter along the costa to three quarters.
		The horn is olive green with a yellow tip.
	www.arbec.com.my /moths/sphingidae/sphingidae_23_1.php (191 words)

	BRILL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This volume contains the first scholarly commentary on the puzzling work Busiris – part mythological jeu d’esprit, part rhetorical treatise and part self-promoting polemic – by the Greek educator and rhetorician Isocrates (436-338 BC).
		Introductory chapters situate Busiris within the lively intellectual marketplace of 4th-century Athens, showing how the work parodies Plato’s Republic, and how its revisionist treatment of the monster-king Busiris reflects Athenian fascination with the ‘alien wisdom’ of Egypt.
		As a whole, the book casts new light both on Isocrates himself, revealed as an agile and witty polemicist, and on the struggle between rhetoric and philosophy from which Hellenism and modern humanities were born.
	www.brill.nl /m_catalogue_sub6_id1376.htm (561 words)

	Immortal Journey: The Tales of Heracles, Leo, Cancer, Sagittarius, Centaurus, Draco, Sagitta and Cerberus. Chapter 12: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Now that he was in the air, Antaeus kicked and kicked, but he was so weak that he couldn't do anything and Heracles crushed the bully to death, then continued on his way.
		Passing through Egypt, Heracles was taken captive by yet another son of Poseidon, King Busiris.
		As his captors led him to the altar, he broke his bonds and grabbed the executioner's axe.
	www.business-esolutions.com /starmyths/myths/heracles12.htm (3011 words)

	Pautalia AE22 Moushmov 4144 of Commodus
		Hercules defeated him in a wrestling match, lifting him off the ground and crushing him, because when Antaeus touched the earth he became stronger.
		After that, Hercules met up with Busiris, another of Poseidon's sons, was captured, and was led to an altar to be a human sacrifice.
		But Hercules escaped, killing Busiris, and journeyed on.
	www.wildwinds.com /aca/ric/commodus/_pautalia_AE22_Moushmov_4144.html (675 words)

	Wadjet, Wepwawet
		As a vegetation god he was also regarded a corn-deity, with association to an early corn-god Neper (Nepri) and connects to other Near Eastern deities like Adonis, Dionysos, Tammus, but a common origin has not been proven.
		In myth he is the son of Geb, the earth god, brother and the husband of Aset, (Gr: Isis) and brother to Nebt-Het (Gr: Nephtys) andSeth.
		Psamtik I restored a temple to Osiris-Apis at Saqqara, and at Djedu (Gr: Busiris) there was another important cult center.
	www.philae.nu /akhet/NetjeruW.html (3595 words)

	Djedu/Busiris
		The Osirian myth tells us that after Osiris was dismembered by his brother Seth, his limbs were scattered over the two lands and found by his sister Isis as follows: his heart at Athribis, his head at Memphis, his neck at Letopolis, his backbone and vertebrae at Busiris.
		The latter are represented by the Tet or the Djed pillar: four vertebrae pictured with or without ribs attached and supported by a stand.
		Note: since the ruins of Busiris lie close to modern Abu Sir Bana, it is often mistaken with the pyramid field named Abusir near Saqqara, and/or Abusir on the coast 30 miles west of Alexandria and which includes the ancient Taposiris Magna, an important city of the Ptolemaic period.
	www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Places/Place/494291 (575 words)

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