Omm sety biography of martin

This woman, respected by Egyptologists around the world, claimed until the end of her days that she was the reincarnation of an ancient Egyptian priestess. Dorothy Louis Eady , better known as Omm Sety, has been one of the most controversial figures in modern Egyptology. This Briton spent most of her life caring for the temple of Seti I the father of the great Ramses II in Abydos and saying that she was the reincarnation of a priestess named Bentreshyt.

This extraordinary story began when, at the age of three, Dorothy had a serious accident at her London home. The little girl fell down the stairs and the doctor who came to help her could only certify her death.

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But an hour later, the girl had regained her life and was just playing on the bed. A year after her accident, in , the girl began to have strange dreams in which she saw a large building surrounded by columns and lush gardens full of fruit trees. But it soon came to light what was tormenting little Dorothy. During a visit to the British Museum accompanied by her parents, when the family entered the room of Egyptian antiquities, the girl ran to kiss the feet of the statues to the astonishment of all, while exclaiming that these were her people and that she wanted to return to her house in Egypt.

But where did all this come from? Dorothy herself was shocked by what was happening to her, until one day, in a local newspaper, she saw a photograph of the Osiris temple in the city of Abydos, in Egypt. She recognized it immediately, since it was the place that, according to her, recurred in her dreams. One night a figure dressed in a white tunic and a blue cape appeared to her: it was Pharaoh Seti I, the same monarch who ordered the construction of the Abydos temple.

From then on, the young woman, only ten years old, began to study Egyptology with the same Ernest Wallis Budge, curator of the British Museum, and she learned to read hieroglyphics. For the next ten years, Dorothy received some messages every night of the full moon by means of automatic writing a type of writing that does not come from the conscious thoughts of the writer.