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Dorothy Louise Eady, also known as ''Omm Sety'' or ''Om Seti'' (16 January 1904 – 21 April 1981), was Keeper of the Abydos Temple of Seti I and draughtswoman for the Department of Egyptian Antiquities. She is especially well known for her belief that in a previous life she had been a priestess in Ancient Egypt, as well as her considerable historical research at Abydos. Her life and work has been the subject of many articles, television documentaries, and biographies. A ''New York Times'' article described her life story as "one of the Western World's most intriguing and convincing modern case histories of reincarnation". == Early life == Dorothy Louise Eady was born in London in 1904, and raised in a coastal town.〔Hansen, 2008, p. xiv〕 At the age of three, after falling down a flight of stairs, she began exhibiting strange behaviours, asking that she be "brought home".〔Hansen, 2008, p. xv〕 This caused some conflict in her early life. Her Sunday school teacher requested that her parents keep her away from class, because she had compared Christianity with "heathen" Ancient Egyptian religion.〔Cott, p. 15〕 She was expelled from a Dulwich girls school after she refused to sing a hymn that called on God to "curse the swart Egyptians".〔 Her regular visits to Catholic mass, which she liked because it reminded her of the "Old Religion", were terminated after an interrogation and visit to her parents by a priest.〔Cott, p. 15-16〕 After being taken by her parents to visit the British Museum, and on observing a photograph in the New Kingdom temple exhibits room, the young Eady called out "There is my home!" but "where are the trees? Where are the gardens?" The temple was that of Seti I, the father of Rameses the Great.〔Hansen, 2008〕 She ran about the halls of the Egyptian rooms, "amongst her peoples", kissing the statues' feet.〔Lesko〕 After this trip she took every opportunity to visit the British Museum rooms. There, she eventually met E. A. Wallis Budge, who was taken by her youthful enthusiasm and encouraged her in the study of hieroglyphs.〔Hansen, 2008, p. xix-xv, Lesko; It was Omm Sety's belief that Wallis Budge adopted the Ancient Egyptian religion but he discouraged her from using heka, commonly translated into English as magic.(El Zeini, p. 15)〕 After a close escape during a bombing raid during World War I, she moved to her grandmother's house in Sussex. Here, she continued her study of Ancient Egypt at the Eastbourne public library.〔 When she was fifteen she described a nocturnal visit from the mummy of Pharaoh Seti I.〔Lesko; El Zeini, p. 22; The mummy of Seti I (the form in which Eady reported he first appeared to her) was discovered in 1881 as part of the Deir el Bahri cache and exhibited in Room 52 of the Cairo Museum. Anwar Sadat had the room closed to the public as he considered it a desecration that the Royal mummies should be objects of casual curiosity. It has since been reopened.(El Zeini, p. 29)〕 Her behaviour, coupled with sleep walking and nightmares, led her to be incarcerated in sanatoriums several times.〔 On leaving school at sixteen she visited museums and archaeological sites around Britain, facilitated by her father's investigations into the nationwide booming cinema industry.〔El Zeini, p. 32-33 who notes during a visit to Stonehenge she found Egyptian mummy beads, "not the first" such find of beads "or even scarabs" at the site which he takes as evidence of trade between the Mediterranean and the British Isles〕 Eady became a part-time student at Plymouth Art School and began to collect affordable Egyptian antiquities.〔 During her period at Portsmouth she became part of a theatre group that on occasion performed a play based on the story of Isis and Osiris. She took the role of Isis and sung the lamentation for Osiris's death, based on Andrew Lang's translation: :Sing we Osiris dead, lament the fallen head; :The light has left the world, the world is grey. :Athwart the starry skies the web of darkness lies; :Sing we Osiris, passed away. :Ye tears, ye stars, ye fires, ye rivers shed; :Weep, children of the Nile, weep – for your Lord is dead.〔El Zeini, p. 35〕 At the age of twenty-seven, she began working in London with an Egyptian public relations magazine, for which she wrote articles and drew cartoons that reflected her political support for an independent Egypt.〔 It was during this period she met her future husband Eman Abdel Meguid, an Egyptian student, with whom she continued to correspond when he returned home.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dorothy Eady」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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