Trillbilly Worker's Party - UNLOCKED: The Curious Tale of Omm Sety

Episode Date: January 22, 2019

We recorded two Patreon episodes over the weekend, so we're releasing one of them so yall can have some extra content this week. This one's about the curious tale of Dorothy Eady, and it asks all the big questions: Is there life after death? Does reincarnation exist? Should some goddamn local bureaucrat be able to decide where you get to be buried when you die? Listen and decide for yourselves... If you aren't yet a Patreon subscriber, PLEASE go like and subscribe, you won't be disappointed by all the great content over there: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty Thank you god bless

It's a snow day, motherfuckers. It's a fucking snow day. Oh. Damn. Yeah, so we're stuck inside all day. We might as well record as much podcast as we can, right? Ugh. All right.

Last night's rabbit hole. If earlier this week it was cruise ships, last night's rabbit hole. Let me just say, before we start this section off, do you believe in reincarnation? No. No, not at all. I believe in reinvention. I believe in a lot of re-things, but incarnation isn't one of them.

Revolution. I believe in re-volution. Re-invention. Well, here is a case that... There's a lot of bi-things I am, but lingual's not one of them. There's a lot of bi things I am, but lingual's not one of them. Well, here's a case that might make you say, maybe it is real. Maybe it's real.

Have you ever heard of, and I'm sure people in the audience have already heard of this, but have you ever heard of a woman named Dorothy Eadie? Dorothy Eadie. Also known as Olm City. Oh, well, yeah. I mean, Olm City, yeah. Oh, fuck. All right.

You know, her Christian name. Good one. Yeah, there you go. She, Dorothy Eadie was born in Ireland or wait no not Ireland well she's born to an Irish lower middle class family but in

Blackheath London England so she was British but she was lower middle class Irish um at the age of three she fell down some stairs, bumped her head, got kind of fucked up, started reporting all manner of crazy things.

She, at this time, also developed the foreign accent syndrome. That's how it's worded. I've heard about that. Like a kid gets hit in the head in a soccer ball, and all of a sudden he speaks perfect accentless french yeah and it's also kind of like i won't name her name but do you remember we had a mutual friend one time who every time she would get drunk would speak in a scottish accent i do it's kind of like that it's kind of like that

uh so this caused some conflict wait a second a second was it like was it one of those things like it was perfect accentless foreign language or was it just like our buddy who was just kind of bizarre i I think it was flawless. Would it trigger you if I went into Scottish accent right now? What are you talking about? Oh, stop it. I forgot I was even more tormented by the news. Than I was, yes.

Read the Wikipedia article. Bad accents, man. Nothing is more cringeworthy than doing a bad accent, which is, I know this, and for some reason, I persist in doing Trump every week on this show. You do a bunch better Trump than I do. I can't do a very good Trump. I can do a good Nanette, though.

Yeah, you do do a good Nanette. I hate racism. That's a pretty good one right yeah dorothy edie was uh you know like i said fell down a flight of stairs at the age of three started exhibiting strange behaviors um her sunday school teacher requested that her parents keep her away from class because she had compared Christianity with heathen ancient Egyptian religion. She was expelled from a Dulwich, I love the names in English, a Dulwich school, a girl's school.

They all just sound so regal. Yeah, Dulwich. Which is not a good thing. Right. After she refused to sing a hymn that called on god to curse the swart egyptians oh man i like it's like swarthy like yes dark skin yeah yeah like this is why look i think dorothy edie is probably a pretty controversial figure if i had guess, she's probably a very controversial person. But... A traumatic head injury

led her to anti-racist, anti-colonialist consciousness. She... That's a net positive. Yes. Throughout her 20s,

she was advocating for Egyptian independence. She... I think, and again, I think that she's probably a very controversial person. Wait, hold on a second.

One second. Why the fixation on Egyptian? I'm gonna get into that. I probably a very controversial person. Hold on a second. One second. Why the fixation on Egyptian? I'm going to get into that. I'm going to get into that. This is a very complicated thing. And I think she's a pretty controversial person. I don't get the impression that she is a bad person. I get the impression that Dorothy Eadie loved life and that she was, in all, a good human being is the impression I get.

I'm just going to preface it with that. I know that this is, again, probably a very controversial thing. She was expelled from school after she refused to sing the hymn. Hold on a second. Hold on, hold on, hold on before you go any further. Is this going to get into Rachel Dolezal territory?

Is she going to come to school dressed like Nefertiti? Bro, it gets even crazier than that. It gets even crazier. I'm buckling up. I'm so glad that you brought up Rachel Dolezal because this has got a lot of tones of that. There's some undertones of Rachel Dolezal here. Stick a pin in that, we'll come back. We'll circle back to it, okay?

Her regular visits to Catholic Mass, which she liked because it reminded her of, quote, the old religion, were terminated after an interrogation and visit to her parents by a priest. After being taken... Can you just imagine like i never mind go no no tell me could you imagine you just all of a sudden have this daughter that

had this thing happen to her then like she's just like a total like egyptian fetishist like you're going in a room and she's like got sarcophagus. She's sleeping in a sarcophagus. It gets even crazier, man. It gets even crazier. So, 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 Edie called out, This is my home, but where are the trees?

Where are the gardens? The temple was that of Seti I, the father of Ramses the Great. She ran among the halls of the Egyptian rooms, amongst her peoples, kissing the statue's feet. Keep in mind, she's a little girl at this time. She's a little kid. After this trip, she took every opportunity to visit the British Museum rooms. There, she eventually met E.A. Wallace. E.A. Wallace Budge.

Hello, I'm... Officiate to Budge. I'm the curator Budge here. Who was taken by her youthful enthusiasm and encouraged her in the study of hieroglyphs. So, Budgie boy. Budgie boy. Wait, well, this is a pivotal moment in her a pivotal moment girl claiming to be seti the first

now she was not claiming to be seti the first this is what she claimed if i can get to that part um so you know i'll just you know skip ahead a little bit she eventually she was working for a egyptian uh she collected egyptian antiquities she started working for egyptian public relations magazine where she met a guy like brendan frazier dwayne the rock johnson aka the Scorpion King. Right, right. Let's see. Okay, so when she was working at the Public Relations Magazine, she met her future husband, Iman Abdel-Meghli,

an Egyptian student with whom she continued to correspond when he returned home to Egypt. In 1931, she... Wait a second. What was she telling him, you think? I'm Egyptian, too. That's a good too. She... That's a good question. She probably was.

She probably was. Well, he was from an upper middle class family. He was from a more well-to-do family in Egypt. And she was from a lower middle class family in England. So there are some class differences here. And that's going to come back into play shortly i'll quit interrupting yeah just no please keep interrupting this is a good content baby okay um she moved to egypt after him and asked and uh he asked her to marry him um on arriving in egypt she kissed the ground

and announced she had come home to stay the couple couple stayed in Cairo, and her husband's family gave her the nickname Bulbul, which means nightingale. Their son was named Seti, and this is where she derives the name Om Seti, because that means mother of Seti. In the village, that was a tradition being named after the eldest child. After a chance meeting with George Reisner's secretary george reisner was a archaeologist yes there's a lot of issues this is a very fascinating story because there's a lot of issues of like imperialism uh orientalism um and you know george reisner was a white american egyptologist this guy who robbedbed graves Essentially Robbed Egyptian graves Did any

You know I always heard At school I have no idea If this is true or not But like all the old You know Kings and what not

Of Egypt Like Booby trapped I think they did Second time I've said Booby trapped On a show I've usually heard Booby trapped More on this episode Than I have in the last 20 years Booby trapped there i think they did second time i've said booby traps on a show i've used the word

booby trap more on this episode than i have in the last 20 years like booby trapped their tombs yeah yeah like you know you walk in you get a poisonous dart in your neck yeah or you like fall into a hole and just i'm not sure or like a spear like goes to your head or some shit anyway i was just wondering if any skeleton swings down if any of these guys had like met their that would be i wonder bitching way to die i wonder if they would be you're right i wonder guy that lived several thousand years ago murked you that would be pretty sweet that would be pretty badass on both ends on the murder from several thousand years ago and the archaeologist.

Yeah. But it makes me wonder if that's more of a construct we've derived from films like Britain in Flavor, Jesus and the Mummy. Scorpion King and so forth, yeah. More than likely, that's, yeah. Right, right. The West has a very fascinating, has a weird fascination with ancient Egypt. Isn't that interesting?

It's interesting, too, that it's probably the one, and maybe it just speaks to Orientalism, maybe it's just one of the cultures we know the most. Yeah. Just regular-ass fucking American school kids know the most about it. But not the real shit, just the contours. We know, not the real shit. Just like the contours, you know. We know there's the Nile. Right, right. Some people think Moses was.

Right. And he split the, or did he split the Red Sea? Part of the Red Sea, yeah. Okay. Which is different. Yeah. What is the Red Sea? I mean.

So wasn't Moses adopted by the Pharaoh and his wife? Yeah. Kind of fucked up to, like, betray your people like that. I don't know. Was that a hard decision, you think, when he was getting rid of part of the Red Sea? I think it probably was.

He was like, damn, these people raised me. These are my blood people. These are my people. I'm so conflicted. Well, I think not only that, didn't he like, let the waters back down?

Yeah, and drowned them all. and drowned the Egyptians. Fuck, man. Some fucked up shit. You know what you should have to have us be like,

I will, you give me what I want or I'm gonna make these waters concede. You know, bargain a little bit. You got a power to part the sea You got You know

You got a bargain and shit I'm with you on that Anyway He also made manna Rain from heaven Which I'd love to be able To have that ability

Just manna Fucking Just nice sourdough bread Just coming from the heavens Covered in honey and shit Alright Let's see. She had a chance meeting with George Reisner,

a secretary who commented on her apparent ability. So she's a great snake charmer. She had cobras and shit. You know, she was a great snake charmer. Is that an Egyptian thing? I guess so. I don't know. And her spells, she had spells on such powers

that were in early ancient... She dove into this. Oh, yeah, dude. This is the thing about... She just dove into the most caricaturish depictions of Egyptian people and lived like that. This is complicated because the thing about her is that she actually was brilliant. She was very, very good at reading hieroglyphs hieroglyphics and a lot of what we now know about ancient egypt kind of comes from her because mom said it yes because she was so good at um drawing you know being able to

sort of visually uh sort of situate parts of ancient egypt and and she was so good at hieroglyphs hieroglyphics and reading it she on more than one occasion like identified the location of tombs that people had no idea it existed and in fact people were adamant did not exist. Let me ask you a question. You think she had to deal with one of the lords of the, you know, Ancient Egypt? The netherworld? Well, she has an explanation for this. She has an explanation for where all this came from.

From how she... Wow. Yeah, so just buckle up, baby. For where all this came from. From how she. Wow. Yeah. So just buckle up baby. I hope you don't have anywhere to be. Keep going. All right. She visited the fifth dynasty pyramid of Unas.

Klaus Baer recalled her piety when she accompanied him on a visit to Saqqara in the early 1950s. When she brought an offering and took off her shoes before entering the pyramid. She continued to report apparitions and out-of-body experiences during this time, which caused friction with the upper-middle-class family she had married into. As I said earlier, some class issues here. This is the story. This is a story of how she got all this. She got all this, right. Hurrah's story of her life.

During her early period, she reported nighttime visitations by an apparition of Hurrah. He slowly dictated to her over a 12-month period the story of her previous life. The story took up around 70 pages of cursive hieroglyphic text. It described the life of a young woman in ancient Egypt called Bindrashite, who had reincarnated in the person of Dorothy Eadie. Bindrashite, which means harp of joy, is described in this text as being of humble origin, her mother a vegetable seller and her father a soldier during the reign of Cedie I, which is in 1290 B.C. to 1279 B.C.

When she was three, her mother died, and she was placed in the temple of Qom el-Sultan because her father couldn't afford her. There, she was brought up to be a priestess. So, kind of like Moses, she kind of had a similar, you know, background experience as Moses. Man, I gotta say, if rich people are deeply diseased, I couldn't imagine a worse fate than, like, in those days,

you just got adopted by the rich guy. Yeah. It's like a Daddy Warbucks thing for the ancient world. It's complicated. It is, and it ruined Bindrishite's life, which might explain why she came back in the form of Dorothy Eadie.

There she was brought up to be a priestess. When she was 12 years old, the high priest asked her if she wished to go out into the world or stay and become a consecrated virgin. In the absence of full understanding... You want to go out and fuck with me? You know, everybody gets to that crossroads, you know?

Right. In the absence of full understanding and without a practical alternative, she took the vows. During the next two years, she learned her role in the annual drama of Osiris' passion and resurrection, a role that only virgin priestesses consecrated to Isis could perform. Remember Isis? Oh, the god, Egyptian god.

Okay. That ISIS also. As a side note, isn't it interesting how the word ISIS sort of appears and reappears and reappears sort of periodically in human civilization? Jay-Z has a song called Meet the Parents where the sort of,

I don't know if you'd call her a heroine necessarily, but sort of the character, the female character in the story, in the song is named Isis. Is Isis. And it's funny to go back and listen to it through the lens of that. There's a Bob Dylan song called Isis.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's also about a woman named Isis. Yeah. Anyways, okay. This is the part I thought was kind of funny. And I thought that you might enjoy. One day, Seti I visited and spoke to her. Remember, we're still talking about Bindrashite.

You know, who eventually becomes reincarnated in Dorothy Eadie. We're talking somewhere around 1250 BC, probably. Bindrashite also, very fun to say. Bindrashite, great, great, I agree. The last four letters are S-H-Y-T, so it could be Bindrashite, but that kind of feels...

Cheap. Yeah, that kind of feels like I'm making fun of her or being disrespectful, which i'm not i don't want that smoke you're just telling us yeah you know let me tell you something you do not want smoke with a 13th century consecrated version in the court of horus that is that ain't nothing you need to be a part of nothing you want one day said he the first visited and spoke to her bender shite they became lovers eating quote the uncooked goose an ancient egyptian okay okay which is great it says right here this is an ancient egyptian term

that has been compared to eating their forbidden fruit which is hilarious man like it's like it's that's actually a lot more practical too like you eat uncooked goose you're gonna get sick look man last night oh damn she you know she let you smash not only that you know we had that uncooked goose you already know hey they're like damn you don't hey not even medium rare no man totally uncooked raw raw when bidra shite became pregnant, damn. That's what happens when you eat that cooked goose.

I ate that cooked goose, man. Unfortunately. She told the high priest who the father was. The high priest informed her that the gravity of the offense against ISIS was so terrible that death would be the most likely penalty at trial. Unwilling to face the public scandal for Sidi, she committed suicide rather than face trial. Damn. But fast forward.

3,200 years or so. Something like that. When did she live? Like as Dorothy Eadie? She was born in 1904. So she's just hitting her stride in... She moved to Egypt in the 1930s. So she's hitting her stride in... She moved to Egypt in the 1930s. She's hitting her stride in the 1930s.

Her husband that she moved to Egypt to marry took a teaching job in Iraq. Her and her son stayed in Egypt and they got separated with the guy who went to Iraq. Let's see. Two years after the marriage broke down, she went to live in Nizlat al-Saman near the Giza pyramids

where she met the Egyptian archaeologist Salim Hassan of the Department of Antiquities who employed her as secretary and drought woman. And now we get into the next stage of Dorothy Eady's life, which I think is pretty fascinating. This stage of her life is when it's very obvious that her so you know she even though she was a poorly educated english woman she was a first-rate droughts woman apparently drafts woman i don't know she was our yes yeah yeah she was a prolific and talented writer she was amazing at hieroglyphics apparently but a lot of these like male archaeologists both egyptian and british and american basically just exploited her yeah

yeah they basically just used her to like make their own sort of magnum opuses or whatever about ancient egyptian society um but they used her yeah of her. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Back of her. Off the back of her work. And so, but, you know, during this time, she was incredibly respectful towards the local, you know, Islamic religion customs and towards Coptic Christian customs.

But they all regarded her as a heathen because she literally believed. She was a 13th century Egyptian. 13th century BC Egyptian, right. And she observed those religious customs. She observed that religion. And she had strong feelings about various Egyptian figures from that time,

like Ramses the Great. I'm having a hard time making sense of this. Oh, it's pretty, I know. It's complicated. It is complicated. I don't say that about a lot of things. It's pretty complicated. I know. That's why.

Serious Rachel Dolezal vibes, but at the same time, like clearly brilliant and getting ripped off by shitty dudes. Yes. The thing that Rachel Dolezal should have done, she shouldn't have done transracial things. She should have said that she was reincarnated, man. She should have been like, I'm a reincarnated African princess or something.

That would have, that would have, it's much harder to argue with that. I don't know. I think it's pretty easy to argue with that. Yeah, I guess you're right. Well, I mean... The answer is, do you want to be considered a kook? Or...

Which I guess in the case of Dorothy Eadie, I guess she was so brilliant that, like, they kind of glossed over the kookiness. Yeah, no, there was a few instances. Let's see. One of these trips to the temple in the Temple of City. The chief inspector from the antiquities department who knew about her claims had decided to test her by asking her to stand at a particular wall of paintings in complete darkness. She was instructed to identify them based on her prior knowledge as a temple priestess, as a reincarnated soul.

then based on her prior knowledge as a temple priestess, you know, as a reincarnated soul. She completed the task successfully, even though the painting locations had not yet been published at the time. So she was like the real deal, man. She really knew the ins and outs of these temples. Let me ask you a question. Let me ask you a question. All right, ask me the question.

You're an atheist. How do you explain that shit? Give me the Errol morris umbrella man explanation for that shit there is of course for this a very sane normal rational explanation that is in some how even more kooky than the reality um my explanation of this is that I think that she, obviously she believed this.

Obviously she believed she was reincarnated. She was this ancient soul. And it might have had something to do with her falling down the stairs at three years old, which might have dislodged some sort of... They even discussed it at some part. I can't even remember what it's called now. The Locust Celebarum or something.

You remember we were watching those demonic position videos? Yeah. Maybe it's like one of those things. I think it probably is in the sense that I think... Again, I don't think she was a kook. I don't think she was a grifter. She clearly was not in any of this for publicity or fame or money. She was a snake charmer. She was a snake charmer.

Not only that, she had a best friend that was a literal cobra. Never bit her or anything. you know who's who's the asshole now i think that her belief in being reincarnated and being this ancient soul or whatever fed perfectly into her natural born brilliance, ability to read other languages and interpret other sort of languages and schematics and other things like that. Let me ask you a question. This is just so fascinating to me.

If you could, if some 8th century Greek spirit visited you in the middle of the night and said Terrence you're me all this stuff and I'm not saying this derisively

I'm just yeah just yeah just saying light hearted hypothetical right right right and said to you I'll give

you can be like this polymath and you'll be like brilliant at all this stuff and you know the world will revere your intellect and blah, blah, blah, blah, whatever. The only thing is, is you have to be honest and candid about the fact that you are me. And he's like one of those like little half goat men that plays a lute. A liar.

A liar, yeah. You've got to tell everybody that you're me i would do it sure but you take that bargain i take that bargain and then like he just he vanishes and then the next thing you know you're just going around telling everybody that you're e-frame from wherever in greece yeah yeah yeah well leth century. What do you call those half goat men? Fuck, it's on the tip of my tongue. Half goat, half human.

Not a manatar. That's like a half horse guy, right? Half goat. Let me look it up. Half goat. Yeah. Half human. A faun.

Huh? A faun. F-A-U-N. Oh, okay. A faun. half human. Afon. Huh? Afon. F-A-U-N. Oh, okay. Afon. Yeah, well, let me just read you something that somebody said about her. This is James P. Allen,

who the fuck knows who that is. Some American Egyptologist, probably. Sometimes you weren't sure whether Om Sedi wasn't pulling your leg. Not that she was phony in what she said or believed. She was absolutely not a con artist. But she knew that some people looked on her as a crackpot.

So she kind of fed into that notion and let you go either way with it. She believed enough to make it spooky and made you doubt your own sense of reality sometimes. I think that's pretty fascinating. Yeah. Like I said, I think was uh a very fascinating person and like i said earlier there was a few instances in which she

located like tombs and records and stuff that nobody was able to find it was a complete mystery to people yeah um anyways so did i close i can't believe i just fucking closed that god damn i just closed the article just give me a second give me a second tom uh give me some content well it's not well back to what you were saying earlier the rational explanation for this i think that i think that her fervent belief in this was really beneficial to like i said her natural born talents and abilities and maybe there's just this realm of intelligence that like is outside of analytical intelligence. Maybe it's sort of instinctual in a way. So maybe she was able to tap into that. I don't actually believe she was.

That the fall made her tap into that somehow. Yeah, maybe she just had something in her brain that made her genuinely believe this without any kind of, well, like I was saying, she was totally self-aware. She was aware that people thought she was a crackpot. And I think that that's interesting too.

I think though that she genuinely believed it. Obviously she did. So you don't think, you think she wasn't problematic by virtue of that fact? Well, this is another thing because I'm positive there have to be people out there who think that she was sort of problematic because when you look at really what she did i mean it feeds into the same sort of general historical pattern of white british westerners whatever yeah yeah coming in and interpreting the past history in india yes in egypt yes yeah yeah yeah which is problematic it's this weird or some problematic

right well it's colonialism right yeah it's this weird morass you know it's just a what's what's you know it's a uh a bog or something it's just like there's so many different questions in it, inherent in it, that are like, what's... But like I said, my overall take on her is that she seems like a good person. Another thing that she's well known for, this is for the folklorist in the crowd, is she contributed greatly, apparently, to understanding folkways, to understandings of modern Egyptian folkways.

Like basically how ancient Egyptian cultural practices have remained in modern Egyptian cultural practices to this day. Because she was like an ethnographer in a lot of ways. She lived in the communities she was, you know, working in. And, you know, like... So she was the first swoop in. In some ways. So when people come to Appalachia and they want to play the banjo and, you know, kind of hang out in flannel and overhauls.

That was her. Just say the word y'all gratuitously. She was a y'all star before Egypt. We should just consider... We should just consider the fact they may have fallen on us, child. Well, yeah. Be...

Yeah, be compassionate toward them. Empathetic. They may have fallen down some stairs. They may have had a brain injury that made them this way. Exactly. You know, so every morning and night she would visit the temple to recite prayers for the day. On the birthdays of Osiris and Isis, she would observe the ancient food abstentions, bring offerings of beer, wine, and bread, and tea biscuits to the birthdays of osiris and isis she would observe the ancient food abstentions bring offerings of beer wine and bread and tea biscuits to the chapel of osiris blah blah blah

you know she was just uh she was in it yeah she was in it but i thought and this is what played on on my um let me ask you a question no never mind no go ahead no no no no no no no no no what happens to offerings to gods No, never mind. No, go ahead. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. What happens to offerings to gods? Who eats? Just some guy that like, you know, like mops the floors. Say, hell yeah. Tea biscuits. Tea biscuits and beer, baby.

I'd say yeah, probably. Okay. In the same way that like the shit you offer at somebody's grave site like you know that just kind of you're just leaving it there and possums and raccoons eat it and shit right right there was maybe it's a little insensitive i shouldn't say that but you know what i'm saying but that's the way it works though yeah i mean shit i've taken shit to graves before and it's like, it's not there. Like later. Let's see. Let's see.

Let's see. She, but this is the thing that really kind of got me. This, this kind of got me a little bit, you know, made me sympathize with her. Like made, and my sympathy with her on this point had me thinking like, well, shit, do I really believe she was reincarnated? Do I really, you know, this is another area that is hard for me to grapple with. So when she was dying in her final years, this was in 1981. When she was dying, she built her own tomb in her small village of Abida, is where she lived, I think, or Abidos.

She built her own tomb that she wanted to be buried in. And the reason why, she built her own underground tomb decorated with a false door. Through this door, the Ka was believed to travel between this world and the next. So the Ka was the soul, the ancient Egyptian concept of the soul. She believed that through the door, the door was necessary for her to be able to travel from one realm to the next. Cross the river Styx. Yes.

Does that take you to hell? I think that probably. I'm just kidding. I think river Styx might be Greek mythology, isn't it? I thought it was Egyptian. We're complicit in this

grand narrative of westerners. Anyways, upon the door, the door was engraved with an offering, prayer in conformance with ancient beliefs. So, you know, just to recap, and also, you know, are you looking up the river Styx?

Yeah. Hell yeah, what is it? I don't know, something disambiguate. Disambiguate. You ever disambiguate inside your head? I disambiguate. Disambiguate. You ever disambiguate inside your head? I disambiguate all the time. Some people disassociate. I disambiguate.

Actually, I do both. I'm not even going to lie. It is Greek mythology. I'm a dumbass. I think it was what crossed over into Hades. Yeah. Yeah, you're right. You're right.

I'm a dumb bastard she said om seti once said death holds no terror for me i'll just do my best to get through the judgment i'm going to come before osiris who will probably give me a few dirty looks because i know i've committed some things i shouldn't have because the muslims and christians wouldn't let a heathen that's quote quote unquote a heathen be buried in their graveyards, Om Sedi built her own underground tomb decorated with a false door. Through this door, the ka, or the soul, was believed to travel between this world and the next,

and it was engraved with an ancient prayer, or an offering prayer, in conformance with ancient beliefs. On April 10th, 1981, she gave away her two cats as her condition deteriorated. On April 15th, um, blah, blah, blah. She, okay, so she died on April 21st, 1981. And this is what fucked.

1981. Yeah, 1981. This is what fucked me up. The local health authority refused to allow her to be buried in the tomb she had constructed. So she was interred in an unmarked grave facing the west in the desert outside a Coptic cemetery. And it fucked me up because I was like, well, damn, man. Her soul's not going to be able to leave. She doesn't have the door.

She doesn't have the tomb. Her soul's going to be trapped down there now. That's the end. Shit's fucked up, man. I wouldn't want to be the health department director. Who has to make that call? Yeah. He's like, look, I'm just doing my job.

Just haunted the rest of his days by ancient Egyptian spirits. Totally, totally. Well, Godspeed, Dorothy Eadie. Godspeed, you know. Complicated. Yeah. On the Wikipedia page, the locus coeruleus was what they speculated

may have been damage in her brain. Who the fuck knows? The locus coeruleus is... It could have resulted in dislocation from her surroundings, resulting in the embracement of an obsession. Wait a second, wait a second. You knew the River Styx was Greek. Are you the little goat man?

I have something I want to tell you. Just pull your socks off and there's hooves. I've got a flute. Oh, man. Well, I thought it was an interesting story because it activates a lot of complicated emotions and feelings and intellectual debates and questions you know also lets me know how goddamn stupid i've i've devolved i used to be kind of a smart guy look um i don't

even believe in souls i don't even believe in the concept of a soul i'm believing in cause. I don't. And I have no cause. Right, right. But even then, I read that and was like, fuck, man. Her soul now. Well, the thing that kind of fucks me up about it is, hey, she, through whatever reason, whether it's a damaged part of her brain or whatever, she dove head first into the role of a lifetime and played it a lifetime. That's true. She deserves to be buried

with the trapdoor for the call. That's kind of, that's what I thought. That's what I thought. Like, she believed this, you know, honor, at least give her that in death. Nah. That local health authority bureaucrat, though, was like, look. Tough call here.

I'd just be like, man, let me just tell you what you're flirting with here you don't want that smoke man I'm telling you 13th century consecrated virgin in the court of Horace oh man yeah no it's a complicated thing man

well that's the rabbit hole I went down last night I thought you might enjoy it Sorry I kept you 45 minutes extra longer We're just gonna have to Split this off into a second episode Aren't we

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riches into heaven with you. That's true. And really in the end it's all about the destination of the car. In the end it all comes down to a local public official who may not honor your eternal destinations In the end, it all comes down to a local public official who may not honor your...

Really? Your eternal destination is in the hands of the local health authorities. Who may just move your grave to outside of a Coptic cemetery. Against your wishes and the Coptics' wishes. Oh, all right. Well, hopefully wherever you're at It's snowing Cause that's what's going on here Look

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