Joan Grant (1907-1989) became famous in 1937 after the publication of the book The Winged Pharaoh. Pharaoh's daughter Grant describes her past life through the main character Seketa.
Some of the storylines in the book regarding Ancient Egypt corresponded to what archaeologists knew, and some facts were confirmed later and became archaeological discoveries.
Of course, since a long-gone civilization seems to be something unclear and distant, it is impossible to prove that Joan Grant really once lived at that time.
The writer Herbert Wells, who believed in the authenticity of what Grant described, once told her: "You need to become a writer."
Welles suggested that Joan keep her knowledge a secret until she was "strong enough to endure the ridicule of fools."
Joan J. F. Marshall's father was a famous British entomologist, and the mother of the writer Blanche Marshall was a social psychologist.
After over a hundred sessions of "flashback" under hypnosis, Grant determined the plot of each chapter of "The Winged Pharaoh."
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In the 1940s, British writer Jean Overton Fuller (1915–2009) contacted several Egyptologists to conduct research and verify the authenticity of what Grant "remembered".
After Grant's death in 1989, Fuller published an article describing the research findings and experiences with Grant.
Grant Leslie's husband was an archaeologist. According to Fuller, Joan accompanied her husband to the excavation after the couple went to Egypt, and after a year and a half, Joan began to recall her long relationship with Egypt.
Grand recalled that she was the daughter of a pharaoh and a priestess who had undergone special training, in which she was also taught to remember previous rebirths. The writer remembered that she was also a pharaoh.
Grant - the first female monarch?
From the very beginning, Fuller tried to find among the historical figures known to posterity, something that corresponded to the description of Grant.
In ancient Egypt, one person could have several names at the same time. Grant said her (Seketa) temple name was Merineath. Joan wrote the chapter "Tomb of Merineith" in which Seketa oversaw the construction of her own tomb.
This name is similar to the name of the queen of ancient Egypt Merneit (also known as Meretneit), a controversial figure in the circles of Egyptologists.
Merneut lived during the First Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, but it is still not fully established whether she had real power. If so, then she is the first female pharaoh, as well as the first female monarch in history.
Fuller said the British Egyptologist Walter Emery (1902-1971) was taken aback by Merneut's tomb: "Her tomb was so huge and so eye-catching that he felt like she was the Queen Regent."
The family tree of the Pharaohs of the 1st dynasty of Ancient Egypt (about 5 thousand years ago) looks like this:
1. Narmer / Menes / Khor-Akha (editor's note: scientists have not yet established whether these three names belong to different people or to one person), 2. Jer (Itit), 3. Jet (Ouadzhi), 4. Den (Deven / Udimu).
In Egyptology, Merneut was sometimes described as Jer's daughter or Jet's wife, and Fuller suggested that Merneut and Jet were one and the same person.
Grant wrote that the choral name * given to Seket was Zat, which in hieroglyphic writing was represented as a snake. Jet also means the word "snake".
This hieroglyph in the form of a snake has been transliterated as Zet, which is close in sound to Zat.
Carol Andrews of the British Museum said: "You will notice that Jet's name … remains controversial." The venomous snake on the earring **, the venomous snake in the middle, is usually translated as dj or sjt.
In addition to the snake hieroglyphs, the reason Fuller drew attention to Jet is because the next pharaoh after Jet was Pharaoh Den - that was the name of the protagonist's son in the book of Grant.
Modern Egyptologists suggest that after the death of Jeta Merneut became regent with her young son Denis.
If Joan Grant's "seen" is true, then the unsolved riddle with the names Narmer, Menes, and Khor-Aha is solved.
In the book, Grant explains that before Menes unified Upper and Lower Egypt, Narmer ruled the southern part (Upper Egypt) and was a pharaoh in the prehistoric period, was also the first pharaoh of the 1st dynasty. The descendants of Menes greatly revered Narmer.
Khor-Aha and Menes can be the same person, because the Egyptian word “men” means “successful”. It is believed that Menes united Upper and Lower Egypt, becoming the first pharaoh of the dynastic period of Ancient Egypt, which corresponds to a successful cause.
According to the rules of the Greek language, es was added to the name Men, so today he is known as Menes.
The writer also described Seketa's silver household items. When Grant wrote the book, the fact that the ancient Egyptians used silver during this period was unknown, but later became an archaeological discovery.
In the book, Grant wrote about Seketa's life: “In the sacrificial temple I had only a comb and a small bronze mirror, my figure glowed faintly. Now on my crest of elephant teeth was engraved my mark - "winged pharaoh", a trained falcon seated on a victorious ship, this is the upper part; below is my choral name - Zat, a snake is embedded, next to it is the key of life, on both sides there are symbols of power.
In the book, Grant described facts that differ from the assumptions of scientists, for example, the appearance of horses and chariots.
At that time, the scientific community did not recognize that there were horses in Ancient Egypt, it was believed that horses were brought from Asia in the era of the Hyksos (about 1600 BC), which is about 1500 years later than the time when Seketa lived …
Nevertheless, Grant insists that the horses were brought in during the First Dynasty, because the authenticity of some elements of its history has already been confirmed.
According to Grant's book, the horses of the ancient Egyptians were brought by zums (ancient Incas). In academic circles, the opinion that horses were brought to Egypt by 1600 BC. e., was neither confirmed nor refuted.
* One of the five names in the royal title of Ancient Egypt.
** The four-coal coat of arms in Ancient Egypt, which contained the name of the pharaoh.