Introduction
Geb is the god of the earth, son of Shu and Tefnut and husband of the sky goddess Nut, forming with her the next generation of the Ennead after Atum's initial creation.
Family
- Father: Shu
- Mother: Tefnut
- Spouse: Nut (married)
- Children: Osiris, Isis, Set (Seth), Nephthys, Horus the Elder
- Siblings: Nut
Father of the Osiris Generation
Geb and Nut's children — Osiris, Isis, Set, and Nephthys — are the central figures of the Osiris myth cycle that dominates much of later Egyptian religious narrative. Geb himself is closely tied to the physical earth and to kingship: the pharaoh's throne was sometimes called the "Throne of Geb," and Manetho's later king-list tradition includes Geb among the legendary divine rulers of Egypt before human kingship began.
Ancient Egyptian religion spanned three millennia and many regional cult centers, so parentage, roles and even gender pairings for a given deity often differ between the Heliopolitan, Hermopolitan, Memphite and Theban theological systems; the account above follows the most widely attested classical version.