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Chapter XXXVII Chapter Whereby the Merta Goddesses Are Kept Back

Hail ye Pair of goddesses Merta, Sister Pair, Merta!(1) I inform you of my Words of Power.

It is I who rise up from the Sektit boat. I am Horus the son of Isis, and I am come to see my father, Osiris.

Note.

1. The Pair of goddesses consists of Isis and Nephthys ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, Rehetȧ, as the word is written at Denderah. ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, Mertȧ signifies two eyes.

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