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Vana'diel Bestiary: Beelzebub  

Family:Bee
Found in:Qu'Bia Arena
Level:0
Flags:
  • Notorious Monster
  • Not Aggro
  • Not Linking
  • Based on Wind
  • Weak against Ice
Drops:
Stolen Items:
Involved in Quests:
Updated: Fri Dec 28 16:26:12 2007


Fought by using an Atrophos Orb at the burning circle in Qu'Bia Arena.

This page last modified 2007-09-25 13:50:37.

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beetle or bee?
# Oct 24 2006 at 2:46 PM Rating: Decent
Ummm.... just a thought but wasn't he a Beetle in FF2?
bee bc
# Oct 24 2006 at 7:33 AM Rating: Decent
this bc is easy prey well if you have 6 lvl 75 bst if not dont waste youre time youll just die
translation
# Oct 31 2005 at 6:08 PM Rating: Decent
beelzebub is translated into "lord of the flies"
hmm...
# Mar 23 2005 at 8:56 PM Rating: Decent
Beezlebub is a bee?

Id think hed look like like the shadow lord or demon looking thing,

Beezelbub was anoter name for the devil, i believe...

(yes i know i have bad spelling skills)
Stuff
# Mar 04 2005 at 8:14 AM Rating: Decent
I thought that beezlebub was a boss in Final Fantasy II...
Beelzebub's Origins - legends/facts
# Feb 16 2005 at 4:04 PM Rating: Good
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This is taken directly form Wikipedia.com:
note: I take no credit for writing this, I merely wish to inform you all^^



Beelzebub (more accurately Ba‘al Zebûb or Ba‘al Zəbûb), appears as the name of a god worshipped in the Philistine city of Ekron. It is later the name of a demon/devil, often interchanged with Beelzebul. Either form may appear as an alternate name for Satan or the Devil or may appear as the name of a lesser devil.


Earliest Sources
The only early source for the name Ba‘al Zebûb / Beelzebub is in 2 Kings 1.2–3,6,16 where King Ahaziah of Israel, after seriously injuring himself in a fall, sends messengers to inquire of Ba‘al Zebûb, the god of the Philistine city of Ekron, to learn if he will recover. Elijah the Prophet then condemns Ahaziah to die by Yahweh's words because Ahaziah sought council from Ba‘al Zebûb rather than from Yahweh.

Ba‘al Zebûb might mean 'Lord of Zebûb' referring to a place name (unknown to us) or 'Lord of flies', zebûb being a Hebrew collective noun meaning 'flies'. It might also be a corruption of Ba'al Zebul, 'Lord of the High Place'. The SeptuagintA renders the name as Baalzeboub, SeptuagintB as Baal myîan 'Baal of flies' but Symmachus the Ebionite rendered it as Beelzeboul for reasons unknown.

In Mark 3.22, the Pharisees accuse Jesus of driving out demons by the power of Beelzeboul prince of demons, the name also appearing in the expanded version in Matthew 12.24,27 and Luke 11.15,18–19. The name also occurs in Matthew 10.25. It is unknown whether Symmachus was correct in identifying these names or not since we otherwise know nothing about either of them. Zeboul might derive from a slurred pronunciation of zebûb; from 'zebel', a word used to mean 'dung' in the Targums; or from Hebrew zebûl found in 1 Kings 8.13 in the phrase bêt-zebûl 'lofty house' and used in Rabbinical writings to mean 'house' or 'temple' and also as the name for the fourth heaven.

In summary, either or both of these names might be the a genuine divine title, or might be a corruption of such a title, possibly a purposeful corruption to make a mockery of it. The two names might refer to the same original or might not.

In any case the form Beelzebub was substituted for Belzebul in the Syriac translation and Latin Vulgate translation of the gospels and this substitution was repeated in the King James Version of the Bible, the result of which is the form Beelzebul was mostly unknown to western European and descendant cultures until some more recent translations restored it.

See also Baal.


Apocryphal Literature
In the Testament of Solomon, Beelzebul (not Beelzebub) appears as prince of the demons and says (6.2) that he was formerly a leading heavenly angel who was (6.7) associated with the star Hesperus (which is the normal Greek name for the planet Venus as evening star). Seemingly Beelzebul is here simply Satan/Lucifer. Beelzebul claims to cause destruction through tyrants, to cause demons to be worshipped among men, to excite priests to lust, to cause jealousies in cities and murders, and to bring on war.

Texts of the Acts of Pilate (also known as the Gospel of Nicodemus) vary in whether they use Beelzebul or Beezebub. The name is used by Hades as a secondary name for Satan.


Later Accounts
Beelzebub is commonly described as placed high in Hell's hierarchy. According to the renowned 16th century occultist Johannes Wierus, Beelzebub is the chief lieutenant of Lucifer, the emperor of Hell, and presides over the Order of the Fly. Similarly, the 17th century exorcist Sebastian Michaelis, in his Admirable History (1612), placed Beelzebub among the three most prominent fallen angels, the other two being Lucifer and Leviathan, whereas two 18th century works identified an unholy trinity consisting of Beelzebub, Lucifer, and Astaroth. However, John Milton featured Beelzebub as merely being one of the many fallen cherubim in the epic poem Paradise Lost, first published in 1667. Beelzebub is also a character in John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, first published in 1678.

Sebastien Michaelis associated Beelzebub with the deadly sin of pride. However, according to Peter Binsfeld, Beelzebub was the demon of gluttony, one of the other seven deadly sins, whereas Francis Barrett asserted that Beelzebub was the prince of false gods. In any event, Beelzebub was frequently named as an object of supplication by confessed witches. After being accused by the Pharisees of possessing Jesus, he has also been held responsible for at least one famous case of alleged demon possession which occurred in Aix-en-Provence in 1611 involving a nun by the name of Sister Madeleine de Demandolx de la Palud who named one Father Jean-Baptiste Gaufridi as a bewitcher of young nuns. Beelzebub was also imagined to be sowing his influence in Salem, Massachusetts: his name came up repeatedly during the Salem witch trials, the last large-scale public expression of witch hysteria, and afterwards Rev. Cotton Mather wrote a pamphlet entitled Of Beelzebub and his Plot.
Beelzebub's Origins - legends/facts
# Oct 30 2006 at 8:20 AM Rating: Decent
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he's also named Ba'al Zevuv, the hebrew words for lord and fly respectively, which literally translates his name to Lord of the Flies (so yes, a bee is the lord of flies >.>;;;)
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# Nov 05 2004 at 9:36 PM Rating: Decent
XD there's someone in my ls named beezlebub
impossible
# Oct 08 2004 at 2:32 PM Rating: Decent
this bc is impossible
mule
# Oct 06 2004 at 4:43 AM Rating: Decent
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Hmmm...I have an Elvaan mule named Beelzebub...
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# May 22 2004 at 1:08 AM Rating: Decent
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My God...It's Satan!
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# Sep 23 2007 at 11:50 AM Rating: Decent
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Hail Beelzebub!!
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