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Belus
Βεμοσ grc
Son of Poseidon in Greek mythology
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
One office on record
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
- Dates unrecorded mythological king of Egypt
Family
The family of Belus
Parents, consorts and children as the accounts give them. Choose a consort to see the children the stories give the two.
Accounts differ about a god’s family. Where they name different parents, the tree sets them side by side instead of choosing one.
The family as a list · 18
Kinship in an account 3
What this means
Parentage as a named source tells it. Not an independently established biological relationship, and different accounts disagree.
Does not imply an independently established biological relationship · agreement between accounts · marriage as a legal institution · exclusivity, or a single canonical pairing
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Family 15
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- child of (mother) Erimede mother of Taenarus
- child of (child) Libya goddess in Roman and Greek mythology
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child of (father) Poseidon one of the twelve Olympians presiding over the sea, storms, earthquakes and horses - parent of (father) Aegyptus son of Belus in Greek mythology
- parent of (child) Babylon son of Belus in Greek mythology
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parent of (father) Cepheus, King of Aethiopia mythical character - parent of (child) Damno Greek mythology character, daughter of Belus
- parent of (father) Danaus Greek mythological king
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parent of (father) Lamia a female daemon who devoured children, usually described as having the upper body of a woman and lower half of a serpent -
parent of (father) Phineus son of Belus in Greek mythology - parent of (child) Thronia daughter of Belus, water deity in Greek mythology
- sibling of Agenor mythical Phoenician king, father of Cadmus
- sibling of Lelex mythical ruler of Megara
- married to Aeria mythological Greek character, wife of Belus, mother of Aegyptus
- married to Anchiroe naiad in Greek mythology
Sources
Sources and evidence
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16 statements on this record
- 5 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 11 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
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Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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