Deity Egyptian mythology
Geb
Egyptian deity of the Earth
A god is known
by the accounts
that name it.
Accounts kept apart
Family
The family of Geb
Parents, consorts and children as the accounts give them. Choose a consort to see the children the stories give the two.
Accounts differ about a god’s family. Where they name different parents, the tree sets them side by side instead of choosing one.
The family as a list · 8
Kinship in an account 8
What this means
Parentage as a named source tells it. Not an independently established biological relationship, and different accounts disagree.
Does not imply an independently established biological relationship · agreement between accounts · marriage as a legal institution · exclusivity, or a single canonical pairing
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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child of (child) Shu primordial Egyptian god, a personification of dry air, spouse and counterpart to goddess Tefnut -
child of (child) Tefnut deity of moisture, moist air, dew and rain in Ancient Egyptian religion -
parent of (father) Horus Egyptian sky deity -
parent of (father) Isis Egyptian deity -
parent of (father) Nephthys Egyptian deity -
parent of (father) Osiris god of the afterlife in Egyptian mythology -
parent of (father) Seth God of the desert, storms, and foreigners in ancient Egyptian religion -
partner of (spouse) Nut goddess of the sky in the Ennead of Egyptian mythology
Connections
How Geb connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 1
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
8 statements on this record
- 8 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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