Haroun
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- Haroun-al-Rashid: the Caliph of Baghdad in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights
- Wikipedia
- Third Census of Finnegans Wake
- Ulysses 046.34: "Remember. Haroun al Raschid"
- Ulysses 506.08: "For the Caliph Haroun Al Raschid"
- Ulysses 544.26: "Bloom, parting them swiftly, draws his caliph’s hood and poncho and hurries down the steps with sideways face. Incog Haroun al Raschid, he flits behind the silent lechers and hastens on by the railings with fleet step of a pard strewing the drag behind him, torn envelopes drenched in aniseed."
- Hārūn: the Islamic name for the Old Testament character Aaron, the eloquent brother of Moses, who spoke for him, as Moses had a speech impediment (Exodus 4.10) → cf. Stuttering, moses and of other days in this paragraph
- Heron: in Egyptian mythology the Bennu, or Phoenix, was usually depicted as a heron → in pagan Ireland Druids imitated the heron when casting spells by standing on one leg, with one arm outstretched and one eye closed
- Heron of Alexandria: engineer and geometer of the 1st century; he made breakthroughs in mathematics and geometry, including a formula for determining the area of a triangle → cf. "caligulate by multiplicables the alltitude" (calculate by multiplication the altitude) on this page
- Erin: (Anglo-Irish) Ireland
