Editing Heliopolis (ancient Egypt) (section)

==Names==
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Heliopolis is the [[Latinisation of names|Latinised]] form of the [[Ancient Greek language|Greek]] name ''Hēlioúpolis'' ({{lang|grc|Ἡλιούπολις}}), meaning "City of the Sun". [[Helios]], the [[personified]] and [[sun god|deified]] form of the [[sun]], [[interpretatio graeca|was identified by the Greeks]] with the native [[Egyptian gods]] [[Ra]] and [[Atum]], whose principal cult was located in the city.

Its [[endonym|native name]] was {{lang|egy|iwnw}} "The Pillars". The exact pronunciation is uncertain because ancient Egyptian recorded only consonantal values.<ref>{{ cite book|last=Hawas|first=Zahi|title=مخطوط معجم اللغة المصرية القديمة احمد كمال كمال. الجزء االثاني عشر|language=Arabic|year=2002|publisher=Al-maǧlis al-aʿlá li-l-aṯār, high council of antiquities|place=Cairo|pages=496|isbn=9773053474|quote=}}</ref>

Its traditional [[Egyptological]] transcription is ''Iunu'' but it appears in as ''ʾOn'' ({{langx|hbo|אֹן}}) in [[Miketz#Third_reading—Genesis_41:39–52|Genesis 41:45 and 50]] and ''ʾĀwen'' ({{lang|hbo|אָוֶן}}) in [[Ezekiel 30]]:17 and [[Book of Amos|Amos]] 1:5 (apparently [[Baalbek]]). This later form would be the expected form in [[pausa]], but perhaps is a play on ''awen'' "idolatry." Some scholars [[linguistic reconstruction|reconstruct its pronunciation]] in earlier Egyptian as ''*ʔa:wnu'', perhaps from older /ja:wunaw/. Variant transcriptions include ''Awnu'' and ''Annu''. The name survived as Coptic {{script|Copt|ⲱⲛ}} ''Ōn''.<ref>TLA lemma no. C5494 (ⲱⲛ), in: Coptic Dictionary Online, ed. by the Koptische/Coptic Electronic Language and Literature International Alliance (KELLIA), https://coptic-dictionary.org/entry.cgi?tla=C5494</ref>

The city is called "House of Ra" in the [[Pyramid Texts]], which date to the [[Old Kingdom of Egypt]].<ref>{{citation |title=Reallexikon der Ägyptischen Religionsgeschichte |first=Hans |last=Bonnet }}. {{in lang|de}}</ref>