Belus ( The Greek language (Greek Ελληνικά, IPA – Hellenic) is an Indo-European language with a documented history of some 3,000 years. ...Greek Belos) the The Arab Republic of Egypt, commonly known as Egypt, (in Arabic: مصر, romanized Mişr or Maşr, in Egyptian dialect) is a republic mostly located in northeastern Africa. ...Egyptian is in Greek mythology comprises the collected legends of Greek gods and goddesses and ancient heroes and heroines, originally created and spread within an oral-poetic tradition. ...Greek Mythology a son of Poseidon by In Greek mythology, Libya, like Ethiopia or Scythia was one of the mythic outlands that encircled the familiar Greek world of the Hellenes and their foreign neighbors. ...Libya. He was a King of Egypt and father of This article is about the Aegyptus from Egyptian mythology. ...Aegyptus and Danaus, or Danaos (sleeper) was a Greek mythological character, twin brother of Aegyptus and son of Belus, a mythical king of Egypt. ...Danaus and (usually) brother to This article needs cleanup. ...Agenor.

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Apollodorus was a popular name in the ancient world. ...Apollodorus (2.1.4) claims that Aegyptus and Danaus were twins and that their mother was Anchinoe (otherwise unknown) and that she was daughter of the river There is also Nile, a death metal band from South Carolina, USA. The Nile in Egypt Length 6 695 km Elevation of the source 1 134 m Average discharge 2 830 m³/s Area watershed 3 400 000 km² Origin Africa Mouth the Mediterranean Basin countries Uganda - Sudan - Egypt The...Nile. He says that it was Euripides (c. ...Euripides who added The Boast of Cassiopeia is a story from Greek mythology, associated with Perseus. ...Cepheus and The Boast of Cassiopeia is a story from Greek mythology, associated with Perseus. ...Phineus as additional sons of Belus. Belus settled Aegyptus in The term the Middle East sometimes applies to the peninsula alone, but usually refers to the Arabian Peninsula plus the Levant, Mesopotamia, and Iran. ...Arabia and Danaus in This article is about Libya, the country in North Africa. ...Libya.

Apollodorus also claims that Agenor was Belus' twin brother.

According to Pherycides (3F21) Belus also had daughter named Damno who married her uncle (Belus' brother) Agenor and bore to him This article needs cleanup. ...Phoenix and two daughters named Isaie, and Melia, these becoming wives respectively to their cousins Aegyptus and Danaus sons of Belus.

In the Eoiae (see Hesiod (Hesiodos) was an early Greek poet and rhapsode, believed to have lived around the year 700 BC. From the 5th century BC literary historians have debated the priority of Hesiod or of Homer. ...Hesiod) Belus was also the father of a daughter named Thronia on whom Hermaon, that is For other meanings see Hermes (disambiguation) Hermes bearing the infant Dionysus, by Praxiteles Hermēs (Greek: Έρμης: pile of marker stones), in Greek mythology, is the god of boundaries and of the travelers who cross them, of shepherds and cowherds, of orators, literature and poets, of athletics, of weights and measures...Hermes, fathered Arabus, presumably the eponym of The term the Middle East sometimes applies to the peninsula alone, but usually refers to the Arabian Peninsula plus the Levant, Mesopotamia, and Iran. ...Arabia.

Some sources make Belus father of the There are several different meanings of Lamia. ...Lamia.

A unique alternate tradition

Nonnus, Greek epic poet, a native of Panopolis (Akhmim) in the Egyptian Thebaid, probably lived at the end of the 4th or the beginning of the 5th century AD. His principal work is the Dionysiaca, an epic in forty-eight books, the main subject of which is the expedition of...Nonnus (Dionysiaca 3.287f) makes Belus the father of "as many as five", namely Phineus, Phoenix, Agenor (identified as the father of Cadmus Sowing the Dragons teeth, by Maxfield Parrish, 1908 Cadmus, or Kadmos (Greek: Κάδμος), in Greek mythology, was the son of the king of Phoenicia and brother of Europa. ...Cadmus), Aegyptus, and Danaus, though Nonnus elsewhere (2.686) makes Phineus to be Cadmus' brother. Nonnus has Cadmus identify Belus as "the Libyan Zeus" and refer to the "new voice of Zeus Asbystes", meaning the oracle of Zeus For the people in the Bible, see Ammon (nation). ...Ammon at Asbystes. (Is the god Ba‘al Hammon of This article is about the ancient city-state of Carthage in North Africa. ...Carthage part of this mix?)

Belus and Bel Marduk

Diodorus Siculus was a Greek historian, born at Agyrium in Sicily (now called Agira, in the province of Enna). ...Diodorus Siculus (1.27.28) claims that Belus founded a colony on the river The Euphrates (the traditional Greek name for the river, which is in Old Persian Ufrat, Aramaic Prâth/Frot, in Arabic الفرات, in Turkish Fırat and in ancient Assyrian language Pu-rat-tu) is the westernmost of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia (Bethnahrin in Aramaic), the other being the...Euphrates and appointed the priests whom the Bablyonians call See Chaldean for other references. ...Chaldeans who like the priests of Eygypt are exempt from taxation and other service to the state and who practice astrology. Pausanias was Greek traveller and geographer of the 2nd century A.D., who lived in the times of Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius. ...Pausanias (4.23.10) in speaking of For the son of Alexander the Great, see Heracles (Macedon). ...Heracles Manticulus being so called because a certain Manticlus founded a temple of Heracles for the There is also a Messene (pronunciation: meh-SEH-neh) in Angola, see Messene, Angola and Bab Messene (pronunciation: BAHB meh-SEH-neh) in Tunisia Messene (Greek: Μεσσήνη Messínî or Messénê ) was an ancient Greek city, the capital of Messenia (until the modern prefecture was formed), founded by Epaminondas in 369...Messenians, cites as similar cases that Zeus Ammon in This article is about Libya, the country in North Africa. ...Libya and Zeus Belus in Babylon (disambiguation). ...Babylon are named respectively from a shepherd-founder named Ammon and from Belus son of Libya. This supposed connection between Belus of Egypt and Zeus Belus (the god For the hypothetical planet Marduk, see Marduk (planet). ...Marduk) is likely to be more learned speculation than genuine tradition. Pausanias seems to know nothing of supposed connection between Belus son of Libya and Zeus Ammon that Nonnus will later put forth as presented just above.

Belus and Ba‘al

Modern writers tend to speculate on a connection between Belus and one or another god who bore the common northwest Semitic is an adjective which in common parlance mistakenly refers specifically to Jewish things, while the term actually refers to things originating among speakers of Semitic languages or people descended from them, and in a linguistic context to the northeastern subfamily of Afro-Asiatic. ...Semitic title Baal (בַּעַל / בָּעַל, Standard Hebrew Báʿal, Tiberian Hebrew Báʿal / Báʿal) is a northwest Semitic word signifying The Lord, master, owner (male), husband cognate with Akkadian Bēl of the same meanings. ...Ba‘al.