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(#8) She Was Instrumental In The Study Of Ancient Egyptian Ruins
Through both her dreams and dedicated studying, Eady became highly skilled and knowledgeable in many way regarding ancient Egypt. In fact, her ability to translate extremely difficult Egyptian hieroglyphs and writings was highly valued among many Egyptologists of her day.
She first worked for Selim Hassan as his secretary and draughtsman. Dorothy’s contributions to his passion project Excavations at Giza earned her a special mention and heartfelt thanks in a number of its volumes. This led to her being employed by Ahmed Fakhry, another renowned archaeologist. Over the years, her work on ancient Egypt became so well-honed that many other archeologists came to her for help. In her book Breaking Ground, author Barbara Lesko had this to say about Dorothy Eady:
She was a great help to Egyptian scholars, especially Hassan and Fakhry, correcting their English and writing English language articles for others. So this poorly educated Englishwoman developed in Egypt into a first rate draughtswoman and prolific and talented writer who, even under her own name, produced articles, essays, monographs and books of great range, wit and substance.
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(#3) Eady Was Placed In Sanatoriums Because Of Her Visions
School was never Eady’s thing while she was growing up; in fact, she found it completely boring and not worth her time. There was so much more for her to focus on, like the dreams that came to her of the ancient Pharaoh Seti I, whom she said came to her and kept her company. When her class finally started studying ancient Egypt it gave her something to keep busy with, but soon it wasn’t enough and she’d routinely skip class to go to Egyptian antiquity exhibitions. It was one of these trips that she met the famed Egyptologist Wallis Budge, who urged her to study hieroglyphics. She took to them easily; she claimed that she was simply remembering them, rather than learning them from scratch.
Her unusual behavior began to concern her family more and more, and as her dreams became stronger and stronger with age, they worried enough for her health that she was confined in a number of sanatoriums. However, no treatment ever caused the dreams to go away, and no amount of doctors could convince Eady she was wrong in any way.
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(#9) Eady Was Highly Respected Among Seasoned Egyptologists
Eady was very well loved and respected by almost all of the scholars, archeologists, and Egyptologists that she met. Not only did many of them speak highly of her passion and knowledge, but of her helpfulness towards their pursuits as well.
She was so valued for her insight that she was asked to be in a number of documentaries and films to showcase her expertise. The BBC even filmed and released a documentary about Eady herself - Omm Sety and Her Egypt. And the last documentary she was in, Egypt: Quest for Eternity, was filmed the year of her death, and you can watch it on YouTube here.
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(#2) She Found Her ‘Home’ In An Egyptian Exhibit
When she was four-years-old, her parents brought Eady to an exhibition at the British Museum in London, famous for its Egyptian antiquities collection. When she finally saw them, it was the most rapturous moment of her young life. She broke free of her mother’s grip and began running through the museum, kissing the feet of statues, crying in ecstasy, and shouting out “these are my people.” Not unlike the average child having a temper tantrum, when it was time to go home she started to yell and scream, refusing to leave.
Her parents finally got her home, but the trip to the museum only intensified her feelings about Egypt, and she began have strange dreams that felt impossibly real to her, like memories from a past life. Later on, she found a photograph of the Temple of Seti I, and realized that was the same building she kept dreaming about. Her dreams had begun to take root, and ultimately flowered into the obsession that dominated the rest of her life.
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(#10) Eady Wasn't Allowed To Be Buried In Regular Graveyards Due To Her Faith
Eady fully embraced ancient Egyptian religion, and was ostracized for it. Because she had left Christianity earlier in life, and because Muslims believed she practiced a “heathen” religion, she wasn’t allowed to be buried in any of their graveyards. So she did what she felt was most natural - she made her own tomb right where she lived.
However, the city did not allow her to be buried in her tomb for safety and health reasons. Instead, she was sadly buried in a grave out in the desert, marked only by a pile of stones. An unfit end for the wise old Omm Sety of Abydos.
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(#5) She Claimed To Have Been A Priestess And Mistress To A Pharaoh In A Past Life
No doubt one of the major issues that broke up Eady’s marriage was the fact that she insisted she was still being visited by Pharaoh Seti I in her dreams every night. This alone was a lot to digest, but she went on to claim that she was even visited by the ancient Egyptian god Ho-Ra (Horus). Horus recounted her past life to her in great detail.
He told her that she used to be a woman named Bentreshyt, which meant ‘Harp of Joy’, and she had lived in the temple Seti I had built. Bentreshyt was the daughter of a soldier and a vegetable vendor, and was given to the temple when her mother died. There, she was raised to be a priestess. However, she and Seti I met when she was just a teen, and they became secret lovers. She eventually became pregnant, which carried severe repurcussions as she had taken vows of celibacy, thus her pregnancy was an offense to the goddess Isis. In order to keep Seti I from being publicly humiliated by their actions, Bentreshyt committed suicide.
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In 1979, the New York Times described the most interesting case of reincarnation. The protagonist of the story is Dorothy Eady, an ordinary British girl. When she was 3 years old, she accidentally fell down the stairs and immediately lost consciousness, and she was pronounced dead by the doctor. What is unexpected is that she did not die, but returned with the memory of her previous life in ancient Egypt.
She accurately remembered that she lived in Egypt and named Bentreshyt. Dorothy can easily learn the various symbols of ancient Egypt. With her knowledge of the ancient Egyptian language, she assists in the excavation and research of ancient Egypt. The random tool lists 10 incredible facts about the story of Dorothy Eady.
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