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The city was regarded in the ancient Egyptian texts as ''wAs.t'', which meant "city of the sceptre," and later in Demotic Egyptian as ''ta jpt'', which the ancient Greeks adapted as Thebai and the Romans after them as Thebae. Thebes was also known as "the city of the 100 gates," sometimes being called "southern Heliopolis" to distinguish it from the city of Iunu or Heliopolis, the main place of worship for the god [[Ra]] in the north.