Home | An Introduction | Pyramids of Egypt | "Beautiful Festival of the Valley" | The Mystery of Cleopatra's Death | Photo Gallery | Duties of Gods and Goddesses | Gods and Goddesses Family Tree | The Process of Mummification | Egyptian Writing | Craft Workers | Egyptians' Theory of the Creation of the Earth | Egyptionary | My Own Work | King Tutankhamun | Egyptian Menu | Ancient Egyptian Fun | Bibliography
Ancient Egypt
Gods and Goddesses Family Tree

godsandgoddessesrelations.jpg

What does this mean?
 
Let's start from the top of the chart....

1.) It explains that Ra (in the beginning known as Amun) created three goddesses and one god: Bastet the cat goddess, Tefnut the goddess of moisture, Shu the god of the air and Ma'at the goddess of truth and justice.

2.) Tefnut married her brother Shu, and together they had two children named Geb and Nut.

3.) Geb the god of the earth married Nut the sky-goddess and they had four children: Seth, Nephthys, Osiris and Isis.

4.) Nut gave birth to Ra, but Geb was not the father. Nut would swallow Ra and then give birth to him by spitting him out each morning.

5.) Seth married his sister Nephthys and together they had Anubis.

6.) Osiris married his sister Isis and together they had two children named Hathor and Horus (who also ended up marrying each other).

tefnut.gif
TEFNUT, the goddess of moisture