Introduction
Geb (as king) is the fourth ruler in Manetho's "Reign of the Gods" king-list, succeeding Shu and preceding his two sons Osiris and Set, whose conflict over the throne becomes the tradition's central dynastic drama.
Family
Father of Rival Kings
Geb's reign as king sets up the succession crisis that follows: his son Osiris inherits the throne, is murdered by his brother Set, and the throne is eventually restored to Osiris's own son Horus — a sequence Manetho's king-list frames as literal royal history rather than purely religious myth, paralleling but distinct from the fuller mythological telling recorded in the Egyptian Pantheon project.
This article records a specific literary or theological role — a king-list entry, a court tale, or a royal legitimation narrative — rather than the deity's or ruler's fuller religious identity, which (where applicable) is covered in the separate Egyptian Pantheon project.