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On the banks of the Nile near an ancient temple built for the god Osiris by Pharaoh Seti I, an elderly Englishwoman lived, but she was no ordinary woman. Dorothy Eady died at the age of three, and when she woke up, her life was changed forever.

CULTURE & SOCIAL AFFAIRS Dorothy Louise Eady or Umm Seti — Nicknamed the Guardian of the Temple and Mistress of the Pharaoh The Story of the Miracle of Reincarnation for Egyptology Dorothy Eady at the Temple of Abydos | Photo Credit. Vanilla Magazine SARAH GAMAL LAST UPDATE ON 21 NOV 2021 On the banks of the Nile near an ancient temple built for the god Osiris by Pharaoh Seti I, an elderly Englishwoman lived, but she was no ordinary woman. Dorothy Eady died at the age of three, and when she woke up, her life was changed forever. She was convinced that she was born across the sea in ancient Egypt. She claimed that she was an Egyptian princess. There is no doubt that Dorothy Eady's story is a very interesting story as reincarnation is one of the most controversial issues of all time. There are those who believe in it and consider it a metaphysical science, while others reject the idea and view these matters as mere coincidences of fate, nothing more and nothing less. On January 16, 1904, in a suburb of south London, a beautiful girl named Dorothy Lewis was born to parents of Irish descent. When Dorothy was three years old, while playing at the family home in Blackheath, she fell from the top of the stairs to the basement, hitting her head on the ground and falling into a coma. The family doctor said that Dorothy had passed away, and asked to shroud the girl and prepare her for burial. Amid the parents' shock, Dorothy came out of her coma naturally and in good condition. Pharaoh Seti I. Image credits: Henry William/The Yorck Project via Wikimedia The little girl started chanting, “I want to go home,” so that her parents told her that she was at home, but she insisted nervously that her home was not here and began to give descriptions of her alleged home. The parents did not know that this incident would change the course of their daughter’s life, turning her from the English citizen Dorothy Eady to the discoverer of Egyptian antiquities “Umm Seti” (mother of Seti), who spent her life in Egypt among the tombs and temples and was buried next to her lover King Seti I in the El Araba El Madfuna, in El Balyana Center in Sohag Governorate. A year after the accident, her father took her on a trip to the British Museum, and as soon as she sees the pharaonic statues, the condition of the little girl changed, and she began to circle around the statues, kiss their feet, and shout, "My homeland," amid the astonishment of the father and the museum's visitors. This incident prompted her father to keep her away from the museum so as not to disturb the visitors. When she reached the age of ten, she caught the attention of the famous English archaeologist Sir Badge, who noticed her strong passion for Egyptian antiquities. Sir Badge volunteered to teach Dorothy the hieroglyphic language. He was astonished by the speed of her learning. When he asked her about it, she said that she only remembers what she had learned before. She was still insisting that the knowledge came from that distant time and that in her previous life she was part of the court of Pharaoh Seti I. She told him about the dream in which she saw Seti I come to her in her sleep and ask her to return home. By 1927 the family moved to London, which encouraged Dorothy to satisfy her hunger and love of the study of Egyptology. She joined an art school and specialized in ancient art. During this time she got acquainted with a young Egyptian man named Imam Abdul Majid who also came to study. The relationship between them developed, and after three years they married and she gave birth to her only child, whom she decided to name Seti. In 1933 she visited Egypt for the first time with her husband, and as soon as she disembarked at the port in Port Said, she bent over to the ground and wet the quayside with her tears. Her husband received an offer to work in Iraq, but she refused to leave her homeland, Egypt, and the couple divorced in 1935. It seems that the husband took the child Seti with him because all the sources that discuss her did not mention the child again. Dorothy Eady at the Temple of Abydos | Photo Credit. Vanilla Magazine In the unfinished autobiography that Dorothy wrote in 1972, she told about the visits in her dreams of the god Hor-Ra who he told her that she was an Egyptian girl named Bentreshyt with a father who was in the army and a mother who worked as a vegetable seller during the reign of King Seti I (1290-1279 BC). Dorothy continued to write that after the death of her mother, the father could not bear the hardship of raising her so he gave her to the temple of Abydos to work as a priestess in the service of the god. Because of her intense love for the Pharaoh and her fear for his political future from the scandal of his illicit relationship with her as one of the priestesses of the temple, she committed suicide. According to the sources, that episode was the reason for her move in the last part of her life to Abydos and the reason for calling her...