Geb

Earth god, father of the Osirian gods and hereditary king.

Parentage

• parent: Shu
• parent: Tefnut

Children

• Nephthys
• Set

Domains

• earth
• vegetation

Powers

• Being the living body of the earth itself
• Arbitrating the inheritance between Horus and Set
• Hold the dead and the seeds within his earthly body

Epithets

• rpꜥt nṯrw egyptian · repat netjeru · cultHereditary prince of the gods; Geb the earth-king who passes the thronePyramid Texts; Coffin Texts (Geb as heir and giver of kingship) (primary)
• jty egyptian · ity · cultThe sovereign; Geb as the ruling earth-god of the Enneadcf. the Shabaka Stone (Geb adjudicates between Horus and Seth) (secondary)

Relations

• sibling: NutFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Shu & Tefnut) per the figures' cited genealogy.

Sources

• existence: Pyramid Texts, Utterance 219 (primary)