Egyptian PantheonCity
Heliopolis
The ancient City of the Sun, center of Ra worship and home to the Ennead—the nine primordial creator gods.
About Heliopolis
Iunu, city of the Ennead
Heliopolis (Iunu) is the cult city of Ra-Atum and the Ennead: Atum, Shu, Tefnut, Geb, Nut, Osiris, Isis, Seth, Nephthys. Creation from the benben stone and the recitation of the solar theology belong here. The Pyramid Texts are soaked in Heliopolitan names. Little of the temple survives above ground. Herodotus and later Greeks called it the City of the Sun. It is a school of cosmogony more than a battlefield.
On the map
Heliopolis among other places of the Egyptian Pantheon.
Sources and further reading
Source notes
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- Pyramid Texts, Spell 527 (Unis)
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