Geb: fertility of the earth
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After creating himself out of the chaos of the Nun, Atum created the male and female principles, the
polarity of the universe, Shu and Tefnut out of whose union were born Geb and Nut. Shu raised Nut
on high to form the vault of the heavens while Geb united with the earth and brought forth its fertility.
Geb is generally depicted as a man sinking into the earth at the feet of his father, Shu, while the latter
is raising his daughter to form the heavens. From the union of Geb and Nut were born Isis, Osiris,
Nephthys and Seth.

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Leiden RMO 93-10-?? (depot), late 21a Dynasty coffin from Thebes,  Bab el-Gasus 1891
Coffin of Ankhefenmut, 21a Dynasty, Thebes, Cairo JE29692 from Thebes,  Bab el-Gasus 1891
Outer coffin of Chantress Nesytaudjatakhet, mid 21a Dynasty, Thebes, Odessa (Ukraine)
Archaeological Museum; InvNo. 52976; from Bab el-Gasus 1891
Outer coffin of the High Priest of Amun, Masaharta, early 21a Dynasty, Thebes, Cairo CG61027; found in
the Royal Cache TT320 in 1881
Inner coffin of the Chantress Nesytaudjatakhet, mid 21a Dynasty, Thebes, National Musum of Tatarstan,
Kazan, InvNo. 1; found in Bab el-Gasus in 1881 (see outer coffin, now in Odessa,  above)
Leiden RMO 93-10-?? (depot), late 21a Dynasty coffin from Thebes,  Bab el-Gasus 1891