One day, Dorothy Idi, also known as Omm Seti, said that in a past life, when her name was Bentreshit, the ancient Egyptian temple of Seti was surrounded by a beautiful garden, which scientists did not yet know about at that time.
But one day archaeologists discovered the incredible - the very garden, or rather, stumps and stone canals for irrigation, but this was more than enough. And not just somewhere in Abydos, but in the very place that Dorothy pointed to …
Do you believe in reincarnation? Millions of people around the globe are firmly convinced that it exists. It is interesting that the world is full of cases when people remember exactly their past life. Often young children tell stories about who they were in their previous incarnation. Many parents perceive this as just another manifestation of children's imagination. But it is not so. Some of the stories are incredibly believable, and our article today presents one of them.
The story of Dorothy Idee is one of the most gripping stories of reincarnation. This is the story of a woman who thousands of years ago, in her past life, was the priestess and mistress of the Pharaoh.
Dorothy was born in 1904 in the suburbs of London. At the age of three, the girl had an accident: she fell down a high staircase and hit her head hard. The doctor called by the parents was unable to console them. In his opinion, it was impossible to save the child. An hour later, the doctor brought in a nurse and brought a blank death certificate. But a miracle happened: the little girl came to her senses and after a while rushed around the house as if nothing had happened.
After the incident, the child seemed to be replaced: she began to dream of Ancient Egypt. The girl began asking her parents to take her home to Egypt, thousands of miles from London. She had strange visions. Going into a trance state for half an hour and swinging from side to side with her eyes closed, the girl did not notice anything around. She was convinced that she remembered her past life and that there, in another time, she lived overseas in the land of the pharaohs. Moreover, Dorothy was constantly recounting startling details of her life as an Egyptian priestess. The woman's name was Bentreshit. She lived and served at the court of Pharaoh Seti.
One day the girl saw old images of the ancient temple of Seti. Looking at them, Dorothy stated that she was already there and that this place was her home. She still could not understand where the garden, which surrounded the temple from all sides, had gone. And she was convinced that thousands of years ago there were many trees.
Parents almost went crazy because of such a radical change in their daughter's behavior. And finally, they decided to take the four-year-old child to the British Museum. It only got worse after that. Upon entering the Egyptian hall, the child became even stranger. She began to run around the statues, kissing the feet of the giant marble statues of ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses. Finally, the girl found a glass sarcophagus with a mummy and settled down right on it, refusing to go further. The parents tried to take the child away from this place, but she suddenly shouted in a strange, changed voice: "Leave me, this is my people!" The parents must have been terrified.
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At the age of fifteen, Dorothy began studying Egyptian history. And then, in a dream, Pharaoh Seti I began to come to her. According to the woman's recollections, one night she woke up feeling that something heavy was pressing on her chest. She opened her eyes and met the gaze of the Pharaoh. He did not forget her even after three thousand years. “I was amazed and at the same time incredibly delighted,” she will write later. - It was a feeling of fulfillment of a long-cherished desire. And then he tore my nightgown from collar to hem."
From these lucid dreaming encounters, her memories of her past life became even more vivid. The centuries-old memory gradually returned to her. Dreams were supplemented by knowledge gained from books, and, in the end, Dorothy decided to renounce Christianity and instead accept the old polytheistic religion of Ancient Egypt.
Dorothy had an incredible ability to learn ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. She spent a lot of time in the British Museum, amazing her teachers. And to all their questions about this, she answered that she did not start to learn a new language, but only gradually remembers everything that she had forgotten a long time ago.
In 1932, together with her husband, an Egyptian student Imam Abdel Magid, whom she met in England, Dorothy moved to live in Egypt. When she first set foot on this land, the first thing she did was knelt down and kissed the ground under her feet, saying that she was finally at home. She came to stay forever.
Soon the young woman gave birth to a son, whom, of course, she named Seti. That is why her own second name became Omm Seti, which in translation from Egyptian means "mother of Seti".
For many years, Dorothy tried very hard to remember her past life, bit by bit collecting a thousand-year puzzle - the fate of Bentreshit. The spirit of Gor-Ra helped her to decipher all the secrets. From him, the woman learned that the Egyptian Bentreshit from the age of three was brought up in the temple of Seti in Abydos. Near the temple, her father, a soldier who could not take care of the child, left her. The girl's mother, a fruit seller, died early.
During her life in the temple of Abydos, she became a priestess and "sacred virgin", taking a vow of celibacy. There, a 14-year-old girl first met the living embodiment of God - the pharaoh Seti I, who at that time turned 53 years old. They fell in love with each other. Becoming Pharaoh's mistress, Bentreshit became pregnant.
Unfortunately, happy love often has a tragic ending. Soon after she found out about her pregnancy, the high priest of the temple told Bentreshit that the unborn child was a great crime against the goddess Isis, and that the child would cause her anger, and the pharaoh would have many troubles from this.
I found two versions of what happened next on the net. According to the first, beside herself with grief and despair, the pregnant Bentreshit committed suicide. The second says that the young woman gave birth to a son to Pharaoh, but the lovers' happiness was short-lived. Seti I died while hunting crocodiles. And after that, the priests took out all their anger on the innocent victim: they killed the little son of Pharaoh, considering him the culprit of all troubles, and the woman was thrown into a dungeon, where she died of diseases …
Let's go back to our time. In 1956, Dorothy succeeded in fulfilling her dream. After parting with her husband, she moved to Abydos and began to help archaeologists in their research. She really wanted not so much to test her knowledge as to make sure that the stories she told were not just fiction. After all, if Dorothy lived on this earth thousands of years ago, then she certainly had to remember some important details.
Once Dorothy went to the Seti temple to the chief inspector of the department of antiquities, who, knowing about the history of Omm Seti, decided to test her knowledge and make sure that her words were true or untrue. He really wanted to prove that the woman was lying. In total darkness, Dorothy was taken to a certain mural in the temple. The boss asked her to describe the painting in accordance with her memories. Her answer amazed everyone present.
Remarkably, the temple murals and symbols that Dorothy spoke of with such confidence were not known. That is, she could not read about them anywhere. Information about them was not published even in Egypt itself. Dorothy not only answered all the questions correctly, but also told the head of the department many interesting things that the researchers were able to discover only later - thanks to her stories.
Dorothy's story became even more famous when she began to help during the excavation and research of ancient Egyptian architectural monuments. The woman translated the most complex works of art - texts that were too tough even for venerable archaeologists and linguists. Her knowledge of the ancient Egyptian language greatly helped the scientists who excavated at Abydos.
When it came to ancient Egyptian history, many researchers were very attentive to the stories of Omm Seti. One of them is a world-renowned scientist, British Egyptologist Kenneth Kitchen. The researcher did not admit this openly, probably for fear of being booed in the scientific community. However, a number of written sources contain circumstantial evidence that the scientist listened to Dorothy's words.
As strange as it may sound, when Nicholas Reeves began to search for the lost burial of Queen Nefertiti, he also took into account her visions. According to Idi, the tomb of the queen is in the Valley of the Kings:
“Once I asked His Majesty where this grave was, and he said to me:“Why do you need to know?” I replied that I wanted this place to be excavated. And he said, “No, you shouldn't. We don't want anything else to become known about this family. But he told me the approximate location. She rests in the Valley of the Kings, not far from the tomb of Tutankhamen. But in such a place that no one can guess that this is the tomb of the queen. Apparently, this is the only reason she is still intact”(laughs).
Bentreshit remembered the son of Seti I, the future pharaoh Ramses. Every time Dorothy came to the temple, she heard his steps - a restless boy running along the corridors.
Dorothy went to the temple to pray every morning. On the birthdays of Isis and Osiris, she performed meal ceremonies, when beer, wine and bread were brought to the temple, just like thousands of years ago.
“Magic in Ancient Egypt was elevated to the rank of science,” she wrote. “It was real magic. And she worked."
One should not think that Dorothy's entire contribution was in constant memories and the work of a tour guide. She is the author and co-author of many publications on the history of Ancient Egypt. Contemporaries noted her professional and business qualities. Omm Seti's activities were highly appreciated by the British and Egyptian authorities. In particular, the British Archaeological Society awarded her a pension, and the president of her beloved country presented the Order of Merit to Egypt. She was respected by everyone - from scientists to tourists and local residents. "The Guardian Angel of Egyptology" was the name of Dorothy Idi.
Dorothy died on April 21, 1981. She was buried near the Temple of Seti in Abydos. In addition to scientific works, Omm Seti left behind diaries that she kept from school until the end of her life. Some of them have not yet been published … Only Dorothy's colleague and close friend, Dr. Hanni-el-Zaini, to whom Mrs. Magid bequeathed her notes, knows what the pages have turned yellow with time.
Elena Muravyova for neveroyatno.info