Renenutet’s Family Tree

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Relationships & Genealogy(5 connections)

About Renenutet

Family
  • Geb(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.

Has aspect
  • Renenutet was syncretized with Isis as Isis-Thermouthis during the Ptolemaic period, merging the harvest goddess's agricultural powers with the great enchantress's universal appeal.

Associated with
  • Meskhenet, Shai, and Renenutet appear together at the moment of birth and again at the weighing of the heart, the three fate deities testifying before Osiris about the life the deceased was given and how it was lived.

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