What is Geb?
[[File:Geb.svg|thumb|Geb of the Great Ennead]]In [[Egyptian mythology]], '''Geb''' is the [[deity|god]] of the [[earth]]. Geb is the husband and brother of the [[sky]] [[goddess]] [[Nut (goddess)|Nut]] and the father of [[Osiris]], [[Isis]], [[Nephthys]], Horus the Elder, and [[Seth|Set]]. When Seth and [[Horus]] (Osiris' son) fought to become the king of [[Egypt]], Geb made Horus the ruler of the living. Geb's parents are [[Tefnut]] and [[Shu (god)|Shu]]. Geb and Nut together formed the permanent boundary between the primeval waters and the newly created world. The ancient Egyptians believed that [[earthquake]]s were Geb's [[laughter]]. The [[animal]]s of Geb are a [[snake]] and a [[goose]] (a goose is sometimes depicted on Geb's [[head]]). Geb is sometimes equivalent to Greek [[Titan (mythology)|titan]] [[Kronos]].Geb is also god of [[vegetation]]. Geb is part of the second generation in the [[Ennead]] (group of nine gods) of [[Heliopolis (ancient)|Heliopolis]]. He was the third divine ruler among the gods; the human pharaohs claimed to be descended from him, and the royal throne was referred to as “the throne of Geb.”{{Hiero|Geb|<hiero>G39-b-A40</hiero>|align=right|era=egypt}} == Family == The story of how Shu, Geb, and Nut were separated in order to create the cosmos is now being interpreted in more human terms; exposing the hostility and sexual jealousy. Between the father-son jealousy and Shu rebelling against the divine order, Geb challenges Shu's leadership. Geb takes Shu's wife, Tefnut, as his chief queen, separating Shu from his sister-wife. Just as Shu had previously done to him. In the book of the Heavenly Cow, it is implied that Geb is the heir of the departing sun god. After Geb passed on the throne to Osiris, his son, he then took on a role of a judge in the Divine Tribunal of the gods. In the Heliopolitan ''Ennead'' (a group of nine gods created in the beginning by the one god Atum or Ra), Geb is the husband of Nut, the sky or visible daytime and nightly firmament, the son of the earlier pr