Belus

This woman was active and bold, and fell into so great a degree of impurity and madness, that she built a temple to the god of the Tyrians, Which they call Belus, and planted a grove of all sorts of trees; she also appointed priests and false prophets to this god.

Antiquities of the Jews Flavius Josephus 1709

"The stone called Belus 'eie is white, and hath within it a black apple."

The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 Robert Herrick 1632

Scripture says no such thing; and it is very probable, the building remained in the condition it was, when God put an end to the work by the confusion of languages; and that the tower consecrated to Belus, which is described by Herodotus, (966) was this very tower, which the sons of men pretended to raise to the clouds.

The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) Charles Rollin 1701

"But the Scripture says no such thing, and it is very probable the building remained in the condition it was when God put an end to the work by the confusion of their languages, and that the tower consecrated to Belus, which is described by Herodotus, was this very tower which the sons of men pretended to raise to the clouds.

Sketch of the Early History of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church with Jubilee Souvenir and an Appendix James Walker 1914

And of AUS and DAUCE is born a son called Belus, who, they say, is the fabricator of the world, the Demiurgus. "

The Babylonian Legends of the Creation 1895

Baalath, &c. There was a river "Belus," in Phoenicia Proper.] [Footnote 5181: Gesenius, _Monumenta Phoenicia_, pp. 311, 312.] [Footnote 5182: Ibid.p. 311.] [Footnote 5183: I.e. towards the north-east, in the Propontis and the

History of Phoenicia George Rawlinson 1857

“Bulúr” (vulg. billaur) retaining the venerable tradition of the Belus — river.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

This did Semiramis for her husband Belus, and Adrian the emperor by his minion Antinous.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

‘And the daughter of Arabus, whom worthy Hermaon begat with Thronia, daughter of the lord Belus.’

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

The maskers who followed these venerable figures were succeeded by two Bards, arrayed in white, and bearing harps, which they occasionally touched, singing at the same time certain stanzas of an ancient hymn to Belus, or the Sun. The aboriginal

Kenilworth 2004