Every god on the Osiris family tree
Each god on the Osiris family tree has a row, with the source that names it.
| Portrait | Person | In the sources | On the chart |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | AtumCreator god of Heliopolis | He created himself and engendered Shu and Tefnut. Sources1 | Find on the chart |
 | ShuGod of air | Spat out by Atum from his own body, he holds the sky away from the earth. Sources1 | Find on the chart |
 | TefnutWife of Shu | The female counterpart of Shu, spat out by Atum with him. Sources1 | Find on the chart |
 | GebGod of the earth | Father of Osiris, Isis, Seth and Nephthys. Plutarch calls him Cronus. | Find on the chart |
| N | NutGoddess of the sky | Mother of the five children born on the added days. Plutarch calls her Rhea. | Find on the chart |
 | SethBrother of Osiris | Called Typhon by Plutarch. He killed Osiris and cut up his body. | Find on the chart |
 | NephthysWife of Seth | Born on the fifth day, mother of Anubis by Osiris. | Find on the chart |
 | OsirisKing of Egypt | Born on the first day, killed by Seth and mourned by Isis. Sources2 | Find on the chart |
 | IsisWife of Osiris | Born on the fourth day. She gathered the parts of his body. Sources2 | Find on the chart |
| HE | Horus the ElderArueris in Plutarch | Born on the second day, named only by Plutarch, who gives him the Sun for a father. Sources2 | Find on the chart |
 | AnubisSon of Osiris and Nephthys | Raised by Isis as her guard and attendant. | Find on the chart |
 | HorusSon of Osiris and Isis | He fought Seth to avenge his father. | Find on the chart |
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The article is unsigned, so the site stands as author and the date is its last revision. Cite the numbered sources for the facts and the article for the chart. Each reference gives the address of the article.
- APAGenogram Builder. (2026, November 11). The Osiris family tree and the Ennead of Heliopolis. https://genogrambuilder.org/history/egyptian-gods-family-tree
- MLA“The Osiris Family Tree and the Ennead of Heliopolis.” Genogram Builder, 11 Nov. 2026, https://genogrambuilder.org/history/egyptian-gods-family-tree.
- ChicagoGenogram Builder. “The Osiris Family Tree and the Ennead of Heliopolis.” Last modified November 11, 2026. https://genogrambuilder.org/history/egyptian-gods-family-tree.
- HarvardGenogram Builder (2026) The Osiris Family Tree and the Ennead of Heliopolis. Available at: https://genogrambuilder.org/history/egyptian-gods-family-tree (Accessed: 11 November 2026).
The files are drawn in this browser from the chart of the article, with the credit of every portrait under it.
Sources
Every source of this Osiris family tree was opened on 10 November 2026. The Glencairn Museum article was written by a curator of the Penn Museum. Plutarch is cited by chapter in the Loeb translation that LacusCurtius prints.
Glencairn Museum
Portrait credits
Each name leads to the file on Wikimedia Commons. The portraits in the article are in the public domain or under CC0.
- Shu, Greenfield Papyrus, photographed by the British Museum.
- Geb, Greenfield Papyrus, photographed by the British Museum.
- Tefnut, Drawing of a relief at Philae, scan by the New York Public Library, 1849.
- Osiris, Papyrus of Hunefer, about 1275 BC.
- Horus, Papyrus of Hunefer, about 1275 BC.
- Anubis, Papyrus of Hunefer, about 1275 BC.
- Seth, Museo Egizio, Turin, 1539 to 1077 BC.
- Isis, Metropolitan Museum of Art, about 1070 BC.
- Nephthys, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 332 to 30 BC.
- Shu lifts the sky goddess Nut away from the earth god Geb, his son and daughter, in the Book of the Dead of Nestanebetisheru, now in the British Museum, Greenfield Papyrus, photographed by the British Museum.
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