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  2. Hellen - Wikipedia

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    The scholion, however, also states that "some say that Hellen was the son of Zeus by birth but was said to be the son of Deucalion", [6] leading M. L. West to consider Hellen's real father in the Catalogue to in fact be Zeus, and Deucalion only, in West's words, his "nominal father". [7]

  3. Dorus (son of Hellen) - Wikipedia

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    Another possible sibling of Dorus was Neonus who was called the son of Hellen and father of Dotus. [4] In one version of the myth, Dorus was said to be born from Hellen and the nymph Phthia [5] (maybe another for Orseis). According to other writers, Dorus was the son of Protogenia and Zeus, thus probably the brother of Aethlius, [6] Aetolus and ...

  4. Belus (Babylonian) - Wikipedia

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    Eusebius of Caesarea (Praeparatio Evangelica 9.18) cites Artabanus as stating in his Jewish History that Artabanus found in anonymous works that giants who had been dwelling in Babylonia were destroyed by the gods for impiety, but one of them named Belus escaped and settled in Babylon and lived in the tower which he built and named the Tower of ...

  5. Marduk - Wikipedia

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    Marduk (Cuneiform: 𒀭𒀫𒌓 ᵈAMAR.UTU; Sumerian: amar utu.k "calf of the sun; solar calf"; Hebrew: מְרֹדַךְ, Modern: Merōdaḵ, Tiberian: Mərōḏaḵ) is a god from ancient Mesopotamia and patron deity of Babylon who eventually rose to power in the 1st millennium BC.

  6. Zeus - Wikipedia

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    One of the inscriptions refers to the "priests of Zeus", and the other mentions "Hermes Most Great" and "Zeus the sun-god". [321] The second occurrence is in Acts 28:11: the name of the ship in which the prisoner Paul set sail from the island of Malta bore the figurehead "Sons of Zeus" aka Castor and Pollux (Dioscuri).

  7. Ancient Greek flood myths - Wikipedia

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    Hence people were called metaphorically people (Laos) from laas, "a stone." And Deucalion had children by Pyrrha, first Hellen, whose father some say was Zeus, and second Amphictyon, who reigned over Attica after Cranaus, and third a daughter Protogonia, who became the mother of Aethlius by Zeus. Hellen had Dorus, Xuthus, and Aeolus by a nymph ...

  8. List of demigods - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 4 March 2025. This is a list of notable offspring of a deity with a mortal, in mythology and modern fiction. Such entities are sometimes referred to as demigods, although the term "demigod" can also refer to a minor deity, or great mortal hero with god-like valour and skills, who sometimes attains divine ...

  9. Aeolus (son of Hellen) - Wikipedia

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    From Hellen came the eponyms of the four major tribes of the Greek people. According to the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women, Hellen had three sons: Dorus, Xuthus, and Aeolus. Dorus was the eponym of the Dorians, and Xuthus's sons Achaeus and Ion were, respectively, the eponyms of the Acheaens and Ionians.