Which god is the earth personified?

Geb is the god who personifies the earth in ancient Egyptian mythology. He belongs to the Heliopolitan Ennead and represents the fertile ground beneath the sky goddess Nut.

Geb is the son of Shu, the personification of air, and Tefnut, the goddess of moisture. His sister and consort is Nut. In the creation myth, Shu separates Geb and Nut, holding the sky above the earth. Their children include Osiris, Isis, Seth, and Nephthys, who form the central family of later Egyptian mythology.

Egyptians connected Geb with fertility, crops, and the physical land. One tradition said that his laughter caused earthquakes, while his body made vegetation possible. He could also be called the father of snakes. Geb is sometimes confused with Osiris because Osiris became strongly associated with agricultural renewal and the underworld, but Geb’s defining role is the earth itself. In Greco-Roman Egypt, writers compared him with Cronus.