Bel
Armenian · mortal · haykazuni mythohistorical · Recorded classification
NO EDGE TO mesopotamian_marduk OR TO ANY MESOPOTAMIAN RECORD, though 'Bel' is Marduk's title and this corpus holds him. Khorenatsi's Bel is a person in an Armenian story; the Akkadian bēlu is where the name came from, and that belongs in the etymology. The identification with Nimrod is likewise recorded as an identification the tradition makes and not as a second record.
Relations
- killed by: HaykNon-symmetric, so nothing is written onto the pre-existing Hayk record. THE CORPUS HELD THE ARCHER AND NOT THE TARGET.Reference treatment: a mighty battle ensued in which Bel was killed by Hayk. (secondary)
Sources
- Bel is the Babylonian tyrant of the Armenian foundation myth, whom Hayk refuses and then kills with an arrow, and from whose defeat the Armenian people take their name.: Reference treatments of Hayk, of Bel, and of Movses Khorenatsi's History of the Armenians. (secondary)