Cult of Gods

Geb

Egyptian tradition. See the whole pantheon.

Domains
earth
Symbols and attributes
Goose; green skin
Parents (per the sources used)
Shu and Tefnut
Partner
Nut
Children
Osiris, Isis, Seth, Nephthys
Papyrus of Ani, British Museum (New Kingdom), a Book of the Dead.
Papyrus of Ani, British Museum (New Kingdom), a Book of the Dead.

Key myth

The earth. His laughter was said to cause earthquakes; his body is the land, and plants grow from him.

Primary sources

  • Pyramid Texts
  • Coffin Texts

All sources for the Egyptian pantheon

Lineage in the sources used: Shu, Atum, Nun, Tefnut.

Place in the family graph

Choose a deity to see where it comes from. Dashed lines are links the sources describe that are not parent and child.

NunAtumRaAmunShuTefnutMaatHathorSekhmetPtahGebNutAnubisThothSobekOsirisIsisSethNephthysHorus

More traditions

Odin rides to Hel, W. G. Collingwood, after the Poetic Edda.NorseA chaos monster and a sun god, drawn by L. Gruner for A. H. Layard's Monuments of Nineveh.MesopotamianVishvarupa Vishnu, Kashmir or Himachal, in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art collection.HinduFolio 309r of the Book of Kells (Trinity College Dublin), c. 800.Celtic (Irish)

Elsewhere in the world

Deities in other traditions who share a theme with Geb: earth, harvest and fertility. This is overlap in one area only.

Norse

Sif

golden hair, grain (by later reading)

Norse

Freyr

peace, fertility, sunshine

Mesopotamian

Ninlil

grain, wind (as Enlil's wife)

Mesopotamian

Ninurta

war, farming, storms

Hindu

Agni

fire, the sacrifice, messenger of the gods

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