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 and Tefnut, the first divine couple created by Atum, produced Geb (earth) and Nut (sky), the second generation of the Heliopolitan Ennead.
Nut spreads herself over Osiris as protector of the dead, her starry body enfolding the deceased king among the imperishable stars that never set.
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.
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.
Ra, aged and weary of ruling humankind after the destruction he had unleashed, ascended to the heavens upon Nut's back, withdrawing from the earth forever and entrusting its governance to Thoth and the younger gods.
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.
Nut swallows the sun each evening and gives birth to it as Khepri at dawn, the sky goddess's body serving as the passage through which the sun travels from death to rebirth.
Nut swallows Ra each evening and gives birth to him each dawn, her star-covered body forming the sky through which the sun god travels.
Thoth's gambling victory over Khonsu created the five extra days that allowed Nut to give birth to Osiris, Isis, Set, Nephthys, and Horus the Elder despite Ra's curse.
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