Geb’s Family Tree

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Family

• Nut(spouse),Horus the Elder(child),Isis(child),Nephthys(child),Osiris(child),Set(child)— Marriage

  Geb and Nut bore five children during the epagomenal days won by Thoth: Osiris, Horus the Elder, Set, Isis, and Nephthys, who became the central figures of Egyptian mythology.

• Shu(parent),Tefnut(parent),Nut(sibling)— Marriage

  Shu and Tefnut, the first divine couple created by Atum, produced Geb (earth) and Nut (sky), the second generation of the Heliopolitan Ennead.

• Renenutet(spouse),Nehebkau(child)— Consort

  The serpent goddess Renenutet bore the primeval serpent Nehebkau through union with the earth god Geb, producing a son whose power was so great that Atum himself had to subdue him.

  ⚠ Some Pyramid Text passages treat Nehebkau as a primordial entity without parents; the Renenutet-Geb parentage derives from later Coffin Text traditions.

Member of

• Ennead

  The Great Ennead of Heliopolis comprises Atum and his eight descendants — Shu, Tefnut, Geb, Nut, Osiris, Isis, Set, and Nephthys — forming the principal divine family of Egyptian theology.

Associated with

• Atum,Nut,Shu

  Atum commanded Shu to pry apart Geb and Nut, who lay locked in endless embrace, lifting the sky goddess above the earth god and establishing the space between them in which all life could exist.

• Akhet

  Geb's body forms the horizons at Akhet where his surface meets the arching body of Nut, the eastern and western boundaries where earth and sky touch marking the sun's entrance and exit points.

• Duat

  The Duat lies beneath Geb, the earth god, with its caverns and regions stretching through the body of the earth that Ra traverses each night.

• Horus

  Geb, as the first divine king of Egypt, awarded the throne to Horus following the Contendings of Horus and Set, affirming Horus as the rightful heir of Osiris.

• Nut

  Geb and Nut yearn eternally for each other across the space Shu holds between them, their nightly symbolic reunion in darkness and daily separation forming the cosmic rhythm of the Egyptian world.

• Osiris

  Geb adjudicated the inheritance of Osiris's throne, awarding kingship of Egypt to Horus over Set in his capacity as earth god and divine judge.

• Set

  Geb judged between Horus and Set in the Contendings, initially dividing Egypt between them before ultimately confirming Horus as sole ruler.