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

5. ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, 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.