The Egyptian Book of the dead by P. Le Page Renouf and Edouard Naville

1. _Turn away then._ Merta as we have seen is the name given to the

goddess pair Isis and Nephthys. It is therefore not possible to account for the masculine pronoun ⁂ as having reference to Merta. ⁂ must be taken in the sense of _ideo_, _idcirco_, _then_, _therefore_.