Egyptian funerary religion
Geb
Keb is paired with Nut, the sky, before Shu separates them. The earth and heaven are not scenery outside the divine family: they are themselves members of it. Tirard places Keb and Nut among the parents of Osiris, Isis, Set, and Nephthys. Their position joins the creation of an inhabited world to the later cycle of death and restoration.
Also known as Keb
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In the sources
Principal account
TraditionalKeb is paired with Nut, the sky, before Shu separates them. The earth and heaven are not scenery outside the divine family: they are themselves members of it.
Further detail
TraditionalTirard places Keb and Nut among the parents of Osiris, Isis, Set, and Nephthys. Their position joins the creation of an inhabited world to the later cycle of death and restoration.
Context & interpretation
Tirard’s 1910 account interprets selected funerary texts and rituals through the scholarship of her period. Local cults and surviving manuscripts vary; her comparisons and proposed origins are not a modern Egyptological consensus.
Original passages
Source 1
The Book of the Dead
Keb and Nut, the earth and the skyOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Egyptian funerary religion; active reader leaf 102
Exact passage checked against active scan text and original-leaf mapping; scan line breaks normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0039-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0039-E001-P0102
- Original scan leaf
- 112
- Recorded leaf number
- 102
- Current Reader position
- 95
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
- Location review
- Original scan location confirmed against the reviewed Reader mapping; the earlier recorded number is retained above.
Source 2
The Book of the Dead
the father and mother of the other gods and goddessesOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Egyptian funerary religion; active reader leaf 103
Exact passage checked against active scan text and original-leaf mapping; scan line breaks normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0039-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0039-E001-P0103
- Original scan leaf
- 113
- Recorded leaf number
- 103
- Current Reader position
- 96
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
- Location review
- Original scan location confirmed against the reviewed Reader mapping; the earlier recorded number is retained above.
Continue exploring
Shu
The god who raises the sky from the earth in Tirard’s account, opening the space of the created world.
Shared source pageHathor
Goddess associated with sustenance and a varying divine company.
Shared source pageNut
Starry sky goddess and protective presence over the dead.
Shared source pageEnnead of Heliopolis
Nine gods arranged as a creation family, with variant lists.