Busiris is the Greek name of a place in Egypt, which in Egyptian, was named djed (also spelt djedu). The location was a centre for the cult of Osiris, thus the reason for the greeks choosing the name. The word Busiris was also used as shorthand for chief god of Busiris, an attribute of Osiris. The Djed pillar represents stability and has been interpreted as the backbone of the Egyptian god Osiris. ... Shorthand is an abbreviated, symbolic writing method that improves speed of writing or brevity as compared to a normal method of writing a language. ...

In Greek mythology, there was a king of Egypt named Busiris, sometimes considered the son of Poseidon. In his mythology, Busiris sacrificed all visitors to the gods, hoping to avert a famine. Herakles defied him and broke his shackles at the last minute. This part of the mythology concerning Herakles appears to be a corruption of a myth concerning Osiris' sacrifice by Set, and subsequent resurrection (see Legend of Osiris and Isis). 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. the solstice itself). // Greek mythology consists in part in a large collection of narratives that explain the origins of the world and detail the lives and adventures of a wide variety of gods, goddesses, heroes, and heroines. ... Neptune reigns in the city centre, Bristol, formerly the largest port in England outside London. ... For the son of Alexander the Great, see Heracles (Macedon). ... Set, in KV34 Set (also Setekh, Seth, etc) was originally a god of strength, war, storms, foreign lands (and foreigners) and deserts in Egyptian mythology. ... This article contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ...

The fictional king Busiris also appears as the leader of a revolt in Lucian's True Story (2.23). Lucian Lucian of Samosata (Greek, Λουκιανὸς Σαμοσατεύς, Latin, Lucianus; c. ...