Belus

Template:Sister project Belus (Latin) or Belos (Template:Langx, Bē̂los) was the indifferent classical rendering of the Semitic words bēlu and baʿal ("lord") as a theonym, personal name, and royal title.

Belus may refer to:

In myth and legend

• Belus (Assyrian), the Babylonian Marduk as a legendary king of Assyria
• Belus (Babylonian) or Zeus Belos, alternate name of the Babylonian god Marduk
• Belus (Egyptian), the Canaanite Baʿal as a legendary king of Egypt
• Belus (Lydian), a legendary ancestor of Lydia's Heraclid dynasty
• Belus (Tyre), a legendary king of Tyre in Virgil's Aeneid
• Baal, a title meaning "lord" in Semitic languages spoken during antiquity; applied to gods
• Bel (god), in Mesopotamian mythology

Places

• Belus River, a river in Israel
• Bélus, a town in the Landes department of France

Other uses

• Beloš or Beluš, Regent of Hungary 1141–1146, Ban of Croatia 1142–1158, Grand Prince of Serbia 1162
• Belus (genus), a genus of weevils
• Belus (album), an album by Burzum
• Template:HSwMS, several ships the Swedish Navy
• Emperor Belos, the main antagonist of the Disney Channel animated series The Owl House

See also

• EN (cuneiform), used to render the Akkadian bēlu
• En (cuneiform)
• Bel (disambiguation)
• Belu (disambiguation)
• Baal (disambiguation)