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Geb, also knows as Seb, Keb, Kebb or Gebb
The god of the earth, the earth formed his body and was called the house
of Geb.
Depicted lying by the feet of Shu, the air god, with Nut, the goddess of
the sky, arched above them.
Husband of Nut, his sister, the second generation in the Ennead of
Heliopolis.
The goose was a sacred animal to Geb, it was said that Geb's laughter was
the source of earthquakes.
Shown as a man wearing either the crown of the North or of the South and
the Atef crown or a goose
Sometimes even painted green, with plants springing from his body
He is one of the gods who watch the weighing of the heart of the deceased
in the Judgment Hall of Osiris
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