BA′LIOS. A famous horse given by Neptune to Peleus as a wedding
present, and was afterwards given to Achilles.
BARKER, see Anubis.
BASSAR′IDES. The priestesses of Bacchus were sometimes so called.
BATTLE, see Valhalla.
BEAR, see Calistro.
BEAUTY, see Venus.
BEES, see Mellona.
BELISA′MA, a goddess of the Gauls. The name means the Queen of Heaven.
BELLER′OPHON, a hero who destroyed a monster called the Chimæra.
BELLO′NA, the goddess of war, and wife of Mars. The 24th March was
called Bellona’s Day, when her votaries cut themselves with knives and
drank the blood of the sacrifice.
“In Diræ’s and in Discord’s steps Bellona treads,
And shakes her iron rod above their heads.”
BELPHE′GOR, see Baal-Peor.
BE′LUS. The Chaldean name of the sun.
BERECYN′THIA, a name of Cybele, from a mountain where she was
worshipped.
BI′FORMIS, a name of Bacchus, because he was accounted both bearded and
beardless.
BIRDS, see Augury.
BIRTHS, see Lucina and Levana.
BLACKSMITH, see Brontes and Vulcan.
BLIND, see Thanyris.
BLUE EYES, see Glaukopis.
BO′NA DE′A. “The bountiful goddess,” whose festival was celebrated by
the Romans with much magnificence. See Ceres.
BO′NUS EVEN′TUS. The god of good success, a rural divinity.
BO′REAS, the north wind, son of Astræus and Aurora.
“... I snatched her from the rigid north,
Her native bed, on which bleak Boreas blew,
And bore her nearer to the sun....”