Note 5 — Chapter CLIV · The Chapter of not letting the body decay(1) in the Netherworld.
P. Le Page (Peter Le Page) Renouf translation
, litt. the destroyers; the word occurs again further on: the destroyer who is in his bush(?) or cover, the hidden one. It is evidently a metaphor, for the sense is obvious; it is putrefaction. The word in the Turin papyrus , litt. locks, might apply to the vegetation or the excrescences which are often the sign of putrefaction.
