She Was A Famed Egyptologist Who Claimed To Be The Reincarnation Of An Ancient Egyptian Priestess
For thousands of years, the concept of reincarnation has existed. It’s a major part of Buddhism and Hindu traditions. But in recent years, the idea of old souls being reborn into new bodies has become popular among non-religious folks as well.
You may have heard stories of young children walking into a place or seeing a particular picture of a person they claim is familiar, even though it was their first time witnessing such a thing. Then, they might give eerily accurate details of what sounds like their past lives.
That’s what happened with Dorothy Eady, a famed 20th-century Egyptologist. She claimed to be the reincarnation of an ancient Egyptian priestess and eventually became known as Omm Sety, which is Arabic for “mother of Sety.”
Eady was born to Irish parents in London in 1904. By all accounts, she lived a relatively normal childhood until she fell down a flight of stairs at the age of three.
When she woke up after her accident, she was completely transformed. Her accent and speech patterns were noticeably different. She also kept asking her parents to return her to her home, although she could not describe where her home was.
One day, her parents took her to the British Museum. While visiting the Egyptian exhibit, she spotted a photo of the temple of Seti I, the pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt during the New Kingdom period and the father of Ramses the Great.
Eady insisted that the temple was her home. She could recognize the monuments and artifacts at the exhibit but was confused about why there were no trees or gardens in the picture of the temple.
She even kissed the feet of the statues. Eventually, she caught the attention of a renowned Egyptologist, E.A. Wallace Budge, who encouraged her to study hieroglyphics.
As she grew up, she experienced a lot of religious conflict. She was expelled from her all-girls Christian school after comparing Christianity to Egyptian paganism. The priest at her church even told her she was no longer welcome there.
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Around the age of 14 or 15, she began to describe her past life, detailing how she was once the lover of Seti I and had met with his mummy in a dream. Her parents committed her to multiple sanatoriums, but her time there never made a difference in her beliefs. At 16-years-old, she claimed that an entity called Hor-Ra had told her the story of her past life.
Eady was the daughter of a soldier, and she was named Bentreshyt. Her mother died when she was three, and her father gave her to the temple of Seti I at Abydos. When she was 12, she became a “consecrated virgin” of the goddess Isis.
Two years later, she met Seti I, and they became lovers. She ended up getting pregnant and decided to take her own life rather than subject her lover to the public scandal her pregnancy was sure to cause.
When Eady was 27, she met the man who would be her husband, Emam Abdel Meguid. After they got married in 1931, they moved to Cairo, where she became an English teacher. She also gave birth to a son, whom she named Sety.
Her marriage failed two years later, and her ex moved to Iraq. At 52-years-old, she moved to Abydos, which she said was her true home. She took part in excavations at the site and proved to be a great help to researchers.
She was able to locate ruins of monuments and could describe what paintings, prayers, and traditional rituals were like.
Experts were astonished because she somehow knew information that even researchers working in the field for many years didn’t have access to.
Eady died in 1981 and was buried in the Coptic cemetery in Abydos. Her achievements and detailed knowledge make it hard to deny her claims of reincarnation. To this day, nobody has ever been able to disprove Eady’s tale.
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