Crossword-Solution: BELUS 5 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Not _Babilon_, Nor great _Alcairo_ such magnificence Equal’d in all thir glories, to inshrine _Belus_ or _Serapis_ thir Gods, or seat Thir Kings, when _Aegypt_ with _Assyria_ strove In wealth and luxurie.

For he riht in semblable cas Of Belus, which his fader was Fro Nembroth in the rihte line, Let make of gold and Stones fine A precious ymage riche After his fader evene liche; 1550 And therupon a lawe he sette, That every man of pure dette With sacrifice and with truage Honoure scholde thilke ymage: So that withinne time it fell, Of Belus cam the name of Bel, Of Bel cam Belzebub, and so The misbelieve wente tho.

The Deity invoked in all the earlier inscriptions is a triad, and we are assured that in Babylonia, where Beltis is associated with Belus, "no god appears without a goddess." The supreme Deity of Assyria was Asshur, who was worshipped sometimes as female, sometimes as male.

Babylon, at which place was erected the Tower of Belus, and Memphis, which contained the Pyramids, were among the first cities which were built.

Where Belus, Ninus, and great Alexander Have rode in triumph, triumphs Tamburlaine, Whose chariot-wheels have burst [268] th' Assyrians' bones, Drawn with these kings on heaps of carcasses.