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BUSIRIS , in a See also:Greek See also:legend preserved in a fragment of Pherecydes, an See also:Egyptian See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king, son of See also:Poseidon and Lyssianassa. After See also:Egypt has been afflicted for nine years with See also:famine, Phrasius, a seer of See also:Cyprus, arrived in Egypt and announced that the cessation of the famine would not take See also:place until a foreigner was yearly sacrificed to See also:Zeus or See also:Jupiter. Busiris commenced by sacrificing the See also:prophet, and continued the See also:custom by offering a foreigner on the See also:altar of the See also:god. It is here that Busiris enters into the circle of the myths and parerga of Heracles, who had arrived in Egypt from See also:Libya, and was seized and See also:bound ready to be killed and offered at the altar of Zeus in See also:Memphis. Heracles burst the bonds which bound him, and, seizing his See also:club, slew Busiris with his son Amphidamas and his See also:herald Chalbes.
This exploit is often represented on See also:- VASE
- VASE (through Fr. from Lat. vas, a vessel, pl. vasa, of which the singular vasum is rarely found; the ultimate root is probably was-, to cover, seen in Lat: vestis, clothing, Eng. " vest," Gr. to-th c, and also in " wear," of garments)
vase paintings from the 6th See also:century B.C. and onwards, the Egyptian monarch and his companions being represented as negroes, and the legend is referred to by See also:Herodotus and later writers. Although some of the Greek writers made Busiris an Egyptian king and a successor of See also:Menes, about the sixtieth of the See also:series, and the builder of See also:Thebes, those better informed by the Egyptians rejected him altogether. Various esoterical explanations were given of the myth, and the name not found as a king was recognized as that of the See also:tomb of See also:Osiris. Busiris is here probably an earlier and less accurate Graecism than Osiris for the name of the Egyptian god Usiri, like See also:Bubastis, See also:Buto, for the goddesses Ubasti and Uto. Busiris, Bubastis, Buto, more strictly represent Pusiri, Pubasti, Puto, cities sacred to these divinities. All three were situated in the See also:Delta, and would be amongst the first known to the Greeks. All shrines of Osiris were called P-usiri, but the See also:principal See also:city of the name was in the centre of the Delta, See also:capital of the 9th (Busirite) See also:nome of See also:Lower Egypt; another one near Memphis (now Abusir) may have helped the formation of the legend in that See also:quarter. The name Busiris in this legend may have been caught up merely at See also:random by the See also:early Greeks, or they may have vaguely connected their legend with the Egyptian myth of the slaying of Osiris (as king of Egypt) by his mighty See also:brother See also:Seth, who was in certain aspects a See also:patron of foreigners. Phrasius, Chalbes and Epaphus (for the grandfather of Busiris) are all explicable as Graecized Egyptian names, but other names in the legend are purely Greek. The See also:sacrifice of See also:foreign prisoners before a god, a See also:regular See also:scene on See also:temple walls, is perhaps only symbolical, at any See also:rate for the later days of Egyptian See also:history, but foreign intruders must often have suffered See also:rude treatment at the hands of the Egyptians, in spite of the generally mild See also:character of the latter.
' See H. v. Gartringen, in Pauly-Wissowa, Realencyclopadie, for the See also:evidence from the See also:side of classical See also:archaeology. (F. Lt.
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