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Reflections in the Nile
Journal: Wednesday 11 March 1998
After visiting Abydos yesterday I had been thinking about Omm Sety, a remarkable lady who lived for almost quarter of a century at her house near Abydos Temple.
Dorothy Louise Eady was born in London in 1904 and from an early age discovered an affinity for everything ancient Egyptian. Much of her story is described in Jonathan Cott’s book, ‘In Search of Omm Sety’, where he gives her personal reasons for feeling such a kinship with ancient Egypt. According to her own story she fell downstairs at the age of three and was pronounced dead. She revived however and from a vision while she was concussed, came to believe that she had lived in Egypt during the 19th Dynasty. By the time she was in her early teens Dorothy had found a friend and teacher in Sir Wallis Budge, who was then the Keeper of Egyptian Antiquities at the British Museum, a controversial Egyptologist who wrote a great many books on the hist
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Omm Sety's Egypt: A Story of Ancient Mysteries, Secret Lives, and the Lost History of the Pharaohs
Believe it or not, this biography of Omm Sety's life is surprisingly level-headed, mundane, and not even slightly sensational. Her memories of her past life are presented as a matter of fact, backed up by the incredible fact that many of her memories are corroborated bygd archaeology. She was a gifted reader of heiroglyphics and worked with nearly every major Egyptologist throughout the many decades of her life, including E.A. Wallis Budge. She was not a mystic or a seer, claimed no great ställning eller tillstånd for herself, and lived and died caring for her beloved Egypt, particularly Abydos.
It's very hard to believe a story like this, but Mr. El Zeini does an excellent job