Suzie's Stories of Mystery and Magic

She told everyone that she was a reincarnated Priestess of Isis who had been the great friend of Seti I who was Pharaoh before Moses left Egypt.

This woman lived the rest of her life in Egypt, in a small hut in the village, and would dream of Seti from time to time. He would come to her hut in the evening and take her on moonlight walks in the desert and speak of his great battles, his son Ramesses, or tell tales of the intrigues of the court of Pharaoh. Often he would apologize to her because she had died before him in rather unfortunate circumstances, and he had not prevented it.

Visitors often met this woman and she told them her story. She told Suzie her story, although it was well known in the village and Suzie had heard it before.

One night this woman dreamt of being in a great underground treasure room. It was a library with pots and storage mazes. And inside each pot and space was a papyrus roll. She could not remember how she got there, but she wandered through a maze of halls and rooms trying to find a way out. Like many dreams, she seemed to wake up before it ended.

When she awoke the next morning she was not in her bed, but just outside the Mortuary Temple of Seti I in a shady spot.

The reliefs of the temple tell of the library and of the Diary of Seti I which is stored there. It has never been found.

Imagine what such a library would hold. There would be letters to Pharaoh from foreign Kings and decrees that he issued. There might be court records with tales of the lives of people who lived 3000 years ago. Battle plans and lists of treasure brought back in victory would be filed there. Annual crop surveys and tax records for Farmer Shaduf and his wife Linda.

If only they could find the entrance. The exact details are not given in the reliefs, and the woman could not remember how she came or went from those marvellous rooms.

Many archaeologists, and probably more local treasure hunters, have investigated, but as yet no one has found the room. But there is the evidence of the temple relief and the tale of a woman who came to Egypt to be with her Pharaoh of three thousand years ago.

Some say she was crazy and had delusions. Maybe it was a dream, or maybe Seti took his reincarnated friend on a guided temple tour!