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** Belus ( Assyrian )
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** Belus ( Babylonian ), the Greek Zeus Belos and Latin Jupiter Belus as translations of the Babylonian god Bel Marduk
** and Assyrian
** Eastern Middle Syriac ( the literary and ecclesiastical language of Chaldean, Syro-Malabar and Assyrian Christians ),
** adherents of the Assyrian Church of the East & Ancient Church of the East, always called Assyrians.
Belus and Assyrian
# A Compendium of Universal History in six books, from Belus, the reputed founder of the Assyrian empire, to Anastasius I ( d. 518 ).
# 41 Assyrian kings ruled the kingdom of the Arabs, who also ruled from the year of the world to the year of the world, enduring all of years from the first of them, Belus, until the 41st king, Macoscolerus, the son of Sardanapallus, as most noted historians agree, including Polybius, Diodorus, Cephalion, Castor, Thallus and others.
It is likely the Babylonian Belus was not clearly distinguished from vague, ancient Assyrian figures named Belus though some chronographers make the distinction ( see Belus ( Assyrian )).
Belus or Belos in classical Greek or classical Latin texts ( and later material based on them ) in an Assyrian context refers to one or another purportedly ancient and historically mythical Assyrian king, such king in part at least a euhemerization of the Babylonian god Bel Marduk.
Belus most commonly appears as the father of Ninus, who otherwise mostly appears as the first known Assyrian king.
It is likely that this Assyrian Belus should mostly not be distinguished from the euhemerized Bablyonian Belus.
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