On this day:
OMM SETI
On April 21, 1981, Omm Seti passed on to join her lover, Egyptian pharaoh Seti I, with whom she began an affair thousands of years earlier. Her story began, in this lifetime, early in 1907. Born in London, England, Dorothy Eady was three years old when she fell down a flight of stairs and was pronounced dead by the family doctor. Two hours later, he found her playing in bed and demanding to be taken "home." Her dreams of an Egyptian temple began.
At eight years old, Dorothy was taken to the British Museum by her parents. She discovered the Egyptian galleries there and said that she had "found her people." The keeper of Egyptian antiquities, Ernest Wallis Budge, befriended her. When he was surprised at how quickly Dorothy learned to read hieroglyphics, she told him she was merely relearning a language she had forgotten.
Gradually, Dorothy remembered a past life as a young Egyptian priestess who had been seduced by the pharaoh Seti I and then made to commit suicide when the liaison was discovered. Their bond still existed, and he would visit her during the night in this lifetime. Dorothy was briefly married to an Egyptian and moved to Cairo. They had one son, named Sety.
Upon visiting Abydos, the home of Seti I, Dorothy recognized it as her real home. Skeptical, the head of the Antiquities Department at the Cairo Museum tested her. At the temple, in the pitch black night, he told her to find the Chapel of Amon. She followed the maze of corridors straight to it and then continued on to the Hall of Sacred Boats. From past-life memory she was able to point out the as-yet undiscovered location of the temple gardens and other enclosures. She changed her name to Omm Sety and worked as both a healer and a respected Egyptologist.
Text from: Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible, and the Ignored by Juanita Rose Violins, published by Weiser Books, 2009
