Geb
Geb is a god of the Egyptian Mythologie which belongs to large the Ennéade of Héliopolis. He is the son of Shou (god of the air) and of Tefnout (goddess of water), but also the brother and the husband of Nout (the goddess of the sky).
Geb and Nout were so close that nothing could interpose between them. Geb was separated from Nout by their Shou father, but thanks to a stratagem of Nout they succeeded in being linked and gave birth to Osiris, Seth, Isis and Nephtys. A symbolic system wants that Geb and Nout were linked in the secrecy of the night to be separated by Shou in the morning.
God of the ground, the plants and minerals, Geb gives to the ground his fruits and his water, leaving with his sister Nout, the kingdom of skies. He is one of the four elements which formed the world. The legend wants that the earthquakes have like origin the bursts of laughter at Geb.
Geb is also the symbol of the royalty, which it would have removed from force to his father, Shou, become too old. He became thus the first mythical king of the Egypt and gave his name to the throne of Pharaon which one called the “throne of Geb”.
One represented it under the features of one man to the black or green skin, wide on the ground and separated from the vault of heaven (Nout) by his Shou father. The colors black and green were very positive colors for the Egyptians of Antiquity, because they respectively represented the black cotton soil fertilized by the silt of water of the the Nile (essential to ensure a good harvest), and the green of the vegetation, and, more generally, the alive things. When it symbolizes the royalty, one meets it capped of a crown.
God of the memory, and guides hand of the scribes, Geb was honoured with Héliopolis, and its crowned animal was the Oie, which formed besides one of the Hiéroglyphe S of its name.
The six king-gods are in the order:
Simple: Geb
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