Belus

Belus in Latin or Belos in Greek transliteration is one of

People and deities

* Ba‘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 Dido, Pygmalion 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".

Geography

* Belus (mountain), a mountain in Syria.
* Belus River, a river in Israel.

Other

* "Belus (beetle)", a genus of primitive weevils.