#Mnemosyne

[sketchmew]

A little thing before I start working on the rest of the conclusion of the arc

Featuring:

Jericho from @mewtwoandme

Mosy from @ask-mirage-mews

and Newt from @xxtc-96xx

[saessenach]

Drawing back to look up at him, her trembling hands gripped his face, her brown eyes wide with a feeling he couldn't immediately place, and it took Shanks a second to recognise the look in them, before it hit him, watching as they moved over his face, as though seeing him anew, and a rough breath left him as he realised that what he was seeing was recognition.

“I remember,” Makino breathed, holding his face, and the memory seized him without kindness, but unlike his vision, the trembling grin that broke across her face held none of the things he’d feared―that she would look at him and see how much he’d changed, and that it wouldn’t be the captain she’d loved. Because she saw―all his changes, and all the things he’d done, measured now against the man she’d known―but it wasn’t disgust that had fresh tears spilling over her cheeks but joy, as Makino sobbed, “I remember.”

Then, her voice softened to a shiver as she cupped his face, “I remember you,” she murmured, and with such aching familiarity, if he had lost himself, she found him now as she breathed, “Shanks.”

Shanks and Makino, in "Ask me again", chapter 27 of @missmungoe absolute tour-de-force Mnemosyne, and dare I say, one of the scenes of all time.

[travelingthief]

Devotions and Offerings List

Alexiares and Anicetus

Apollo

Aphrodite

Ares

Artemis

Athena

Clio

Demeter

Dionysus

Hades

Hecate

Hephaestus

Hera

Hermes

Hestia

Mnemosyne

Poseidon

Selene

Tyche

Zeus

[hermits-hovel]

the sum of its parts.

[greekmythfamilytree]

Today's three!

Rhea: Child of Ouranos and Gaea. Queen of the Titans. Titan of Mothers.

Themis: Child of Ouronos and Gaea. Titan of Divine Law

Mnemosyne: Child of Ouranos and Gaea. Titan of Memory.

60/560

[imperatrice21]

It just hit me how op Mnemosyne is. Like imagine a Titaness who remembers absolutely every little detail about everything. Someone who can look through any other immortals memories, find their weaknesses, their strengths, all their plans. She could have the ability to make someone relieve their worse memories, remove someone's memories and replace them with entirely new ones. Like, is that not crazy?

[uponsteppingstones]

💭 the nine muses: goddesses of the arts

longer post below the cut

over the next two weeks or so i'm intending to make a post on each muse to give myself an opportunity to talk a little more about their sphere of influence and domain <3 but this is a more general post about all nine mousai.

the most common tale of their origin (& the one i personally ascribe to), says that the muses are the daughters of the partnership between mnemosyne & zeus. zeus visited mnemosyne on nine consecutive nights, and a year later she bore nine children of this partnership, and these daughters were the muses.

in earlier myths, the muses were considered patron goddesses of poetry or music more generally - and in fact this is where the modern word "music" comes from, the ancient greek word mousiké meaning "art of the muses". but in the time following their origin, their sphere of influence evolves, and each muse comes to have her own respective domain in the form of a specific kind of art or humanity or science (which also gives us the word "museum" - from mouseion, or "seat of the muses".) the mousai are most chiefly associated with the following in simple terms (though most have secondary domains, which i will explore more in their individual posts):

🏛️ clio, muse of history

🪈 euterpe, muse of music

🎭 thalia, muse of comedy

🗡️ melpomene, muse of tragedy

🎼 terpsichore, muse of dance

💭 erato, muse of erotic poetry

☁️ polyhymnia, muse of sacred poetry & hymn

🌌 urania, muse of astronomy

📜 calliope, muse of eloquence & epic poetry

the mousai also collectively have associations with memory because of their mother, mnemosyne, titaness of memory & remembrance. they are said to be goddesses of knowledge in this way, in that they remember everything which has come to be. they are also said to aid in forgetting, hesiod narrated that the muses bring forgetfulness of pain & cessation of obligations. plutarch stated in some places all nine mousai were known collectively by the name mneiae (or remembrances).

in olympus, the mousai are said to perform for the other olympian deities, and are closely associated with apollo, as god of music & dance. he is sometimes said to lead the choir of the muses, or be depicted as the leader of the muses.

[a-d-nox]

hii, I love your blog 🫶🏾🩵 I was wondering if you knew what synastry overlys that would make one person always nervous around the other one?

what causes anxiousness/nervousness in synastry and composite

i'm going to work off of what i already have posted (no asteroids discussed after this post will be included or added after the fact). finally, i would like to state that NO TWO CHARTS ARE THE SAME. what i am about to list out does not mean you will for sure need these exact things (or all of these things) to be shy, nervous, and/or anxious around one another. if you don't understand my thought process, feel free to comment with questions!

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your mercury or saturn in their 12h or 12h ruler negatively aspecting mercury or saturn

i find that having these planets in another persons 12h tends to make mercury/saturn people feel like they freeze up or have nothing to say to the 12h person. often i find that mercury/saturn feel anxious and they nervously talk to the 12h person, sometimes oversharing what they think/feel. 12 house person might also feel like mercury person doesn't like them which makes them even more anxious when they are around them.

mercury negatively aspecting saturn

mercury person could say something that offends the saturn person without having thought that it would - simply because they didn't remember a reason not to say it... then there is significant tension between the two... mercury person might not to able to able to pick up on saturn person's feelings/thoughts and instead feels as though they must "walk on eggshells" around the saturn person. mercury person can become clumsy around saturn person - they might trip or even drop things around saturn person.

your mercury in their 3h, 3h mercury in composite, and/or gemini mercury in composite

all of these manifest like social anxiety, nervous chatter, and/or in ability to say what you mean to one another.

mercury negatively aspecting saturn, mercury negatively aspecting uranus, and/or saturn negatively aspecting uranus

this is general nervousness around one another - mercury and uranus are ramblers/fidgeters while saturn is shy and tends to freeze up.

12h mercury, saturn, and/or neptune

often these people get too in their heads and overthink what was said or done around them. the planet person tends to do the overthinking about the house person.

echo (asteroid 60) - mercury, echo (asteroid 60) - narcissus (asteroid 37117), and/or your echo in their 3h

echo person might find themselves mute around mercury, narcissus, and/or 3h person.

mnemosyne (asteroid 57) negatively aspecting mercury and/or saturn

mnemosyne person is likely to lose their train of thought and/or feel ill equipped to talk with mercury/saturn person.

pan (asteroid 4450) - mercury and/or your pan (asteroid 4450) in their 3h

often the pan person with panic when talking with mercury/3h person.

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[arrowheadedbitch]

Okay, I've been discussing ideas about a PJO Psych crossover and it is now time to share my findings

Okay, so once upon a time Henry Spencer met a woman who when posing as a mortal went by the name Madeleine but she was actually a goddess, they had a kid, she was a minor goddess, so she was able to stay for a while, but eventually she left.

Yes, of COURSE Shawn thinks it's his Dad's fault

The goddess was Mnemosyne, the Greek goddess of MEMORY and the mother of the muses (works perfectly, right??!??!?!)

And Gus is his Satyr protector!!!

Henry does all the same training with Shawn to be a cop and such

Shawn gets his eidetic memory from his mother, the goddess of memory

I've also decided he gets taskmaster powers (can do anything he sees from memory) because that fucks hard

Shawn gets the record of fastest kid to get claimed as his mother officially claims him before he even leaves for camp

Here's her symbol by the way!

Anyway, when Shawn gets to camp, he's a total little shit

At first, the other campers think he's just not being claimed, depending on how you work the timeline here? Percy is pissed

Then Gus and Shawn explain that he actually got claimed before he even showed up (Percy vows to personally thank his godly parent for being an actually decent person)

So, they ask who it is, and Shawn WILL NOT TELL THEM

Why? Because it's funner that way!

They have an ongoing tally and betting pool of who his godly parent is, no one guesses it

He also keeps sneaking Mr D alcohol because it's funny and no one but Dionysus is happy about that

Gus is still his best friend that he drags into things, obv, they probably end up soul bound just like percy and grover

Juliet is a child of Athena

Lassie is a child of Ares and if your going by the show there's a super funny joke about how he looks exactly like Hephaestus but is the son of the guy he hates most, haha

Shawn KILLS at capture the flag

No one believes him when he says he doesn't have charm speak

Instead of becoming a SB Psychic, he ends up being this crime solving traveling cryptid (he's gotta keep moving bc monsters) (dont worry, he still visits camp pretty often and likes to drop by Santa Barbara to solve crimes and piss off his dad)

There was also a lengthy convo about each gods opinion of him of any of you wanna hear that

Shawn is the muse of doing weird shit

Also art lover shawn 🔛🔝, he's got plenty of muse talent, yall

Instead of pretending to be a psychic, he's pretending to NOT be muse adjacent

And now, a list of Gods people keep guessing for Shawn

Dionysus, Hermes, Athena, Aphrodite, Apollo, Hecate

And finally, gay people real???

As you can see, we mostly talked about Shawn lol

[firinnie]

Simp for Metis at this stage

I think a bit too much about Hesiod's Theogony.

According to this, Zeus had 7 wives: Metis, Themis, Eurynome, Demeter, Mnemosyne, Leto and Hera

Metis is the only wife Zeus was forced to get rid of because she was supposed to give birth to a son who would defeat him. Plus "Zeus placed her down into his belly, so the goddess might advise him on good and evil." kind of changes it a bit, like she was some kind of voice in his head? Interesting.

Themis was basically… a good replacement for Metis. She advised him in the same way and was justice. Then we have Eurynome, who is like Metis but in appearance, a beautiful nymph.

Demeter, who opposed him but was powerful. Recognizing her as a wife is interesting, but it kind of shows us the great sense from Hestia taking a vow of virginity was. Then Mnemosyne was the personification of memories… do I need to add anything when he still couldn't get his first wife out of his head?

The case of Leto and Hera is very interesting because we all know that one was supposed to pursue the other. Hera was jealous of her husband, so it means that Leto got pregnant after the divorce or was replaced when her pregnancy was not yet known.

And now I see one thing (unless I missed something) but if we assume that Leto was actually divorced, maybe because she couldn't / not wanted to get pregnant, which turned out to be only when Hera was already ruling… it turns out that Hera is the only one who gave Zeus a son from a legitimate bed. Each of the other ladies here gave birth to only daughters, and Apollo was born out of wedlock because Hera was jealous of her husband then. Does this mean that Zeus wanted a son and he was only bargaining chip to continue the marriage?

This is already an obsession, but everything revolves around Metis for me. Zeus tried to replace her mind, her looks, her strength and finally that she would give him a son but this time a safe one. Right after that Athena is born so Zeus no longer has a part of Metis to follow in love life, he has it in his daughter.

[in-memory-of-mnemosyne]

I finally found a statue I like for lady Mnemosyne, so here’s her little area

[meowtcha]

And look what other cutie came in today~ It's Mnemosyne! It's a long weekend here in the United States so they'll all be sent out on Tuesday! There are also a handful of these leftover; all profits go straight to @ask-mirage-mews

[saessenach]

Shanks and Makino (and a sleeping Rowan) in Amazon Lily, chapter 26 of @missmungoe 's showstopping Mnemosyne

Words can't describe how batshit insane this story has been making me for HALF A DECADE. I vividly remember hearing about this idea for the first time and to this day I am still in awe and shock and wonder at how you're pulling it off!!! Here's to you, friend, and a couple of my favourite moments!!

[travelingthief]

Mnemosyne Offerings and Devotional Acts

Offerings

Books/stories 

History books, philosophy books, and language learning books

Writing utensils

Quill/ink

Scrolls

Obituaries

Mementos from loved ones

Mementos from times you want to remember

Photos

Scrapbooks

Home videos

School work

Planners

Depictions of the Muses

Brain imagery

Lightbulb imagery

Lamp of Knowledge imagery

Candles

Journals

Poems

Clocks/watches

Hourglasses

Newspapers

Water (She has a “pool of memory” in the Underworld)

Number 9

Letters

Art

Musical instruments

Music sheets

Elephants (an elephant never forgets!)

Forget-me-not flowers

Puzzles

Puzzle books 

Devotional Acts

Tell oral stories

Study 

Keep good school notes

Memorize speeches or other materials

Make flashcards

Play games that improve memory

Make and use mnemonic devices

Journal

Plan your days

Make to-do lists

Public speaking

Keep deceased loved ones’ memory alive

Volunteer with dementia patients

Learn about dementia and Alzheimer's 

Start a “remember when” conversation

Be patient with forgetful people

Make art

Write poetry

Ask elders their life stories

Remember/honor your ancestors

Learn about the muses

Maintain a hobby - it helps your brain!

Take vitamins that improve brain function

Challenge your brain

Get good sleep

Exercise

Meditate

Eat brain-healthy foods

Set reminders

Learn about memory in psychology

Reflect and journal about De ja vu moments

Past life work

Document any memories you have

Go without your GPS - try to remember how to get places without help!

[somnirie]

my goth demigod oc....

[likethexan]

for you, what to you think is the birth order for the 12 Titans? Love to have you back and your reasonings are fun :)

thank you nonnie 🧡 there’s nothing I love more than making lore out of crumbs we have, so here’s my interpretation!

In Hesiod’s Theogony, we get this birth order: "She [Gaia, Earth] lay with Ouranos (Uranus, Sky) and bare deep-swirling

1. Okeanos (Oceanus), 2. Koios (Coeus) 3. Krios (Crius) and 4. Hyperion and 5. Iapetos (Iapetus), 6. Theia and 7. Rhea, 8. Themis and 9. Mnemosyne and gold-crowned 10. Phoibe (Phoebe) and lovely 11. Tethys. After them was born 12. Kronos (Cronus)."

EDIT: I missed two more accounts, one from the Pseudo-Apollodorus' Bibliotheca (who listed Dione as a Titaness):

"Ouranos (Uranus, Sky) . . . fathered other sons on Ge (Gaea, Earth), namely the Titanes (Titans) :

1. Okeanos (Oceanus), 2. Koios (Coeus), 3. Hyperion, 4. Krios (Crius), 5. Iapetos, and 6. Kronos (Cronus) the youngest; also daughters called Titanides (Titanesses) : 1. Tethys, 2. Rhea, 3. Themis, 4. Mnemosyne, 5. Phoibe (Phoebe), Dione, and Theia."

and another from the Diodorus Siculus' Library of History (which sites Cronus as the oldest and forgets Theia)

The males were 1. Kronos (Cronus), 2. Hyperion, 3. Koios (Coeus), 4. Iapetos, 5. Krios (Crius) and 6. Okeanos (Oceanus) , and their sisters were 7. Rhea 8. Themis, 9. Mnemosyne, 10. Phoibe (Phoebe) and 11. Tethys. Each one of them was the discover of things of benefit to mankind, and because of the benefaction they conferred upon all men they were accorded honors and everlasting fame."

Of the three accounts mentioned I've noticed some similarities:

All three accounts have the pattern Rhea-Themis-Mnemosyne-Phoebe consistently

Two accounts have Oceanus as the oldest child and one as the youngest brother

Two accounts have Tethys as the youngest daughter and one as the oldest daughter

Iapetus is the closest in age to Cronus in two accounts and the second closest in the other

Koios is often the second or third son

Now, just because I've noticed these doesn't necessarily mean I will follow these "rules" in making my own birth order, especially considering many narrative issues regarding Styx/Pallas and Atlas/Pleione being second-generation Titans with fully grown children during the war (as well as well, who I think would fit more into the role of older/younger).

So, here is my own version (sprinkled in with headcanon):

BIRTH ORDER OF THE TWELVE OTHYRIANS:

1-2. Oceanus and Tethys (eldest son and daughter) - So Oceanus is described by Hera as where “all gods have risen” in the Iliad, and in the same breath describes Tethys as “our mother” and in another account by Homer- “Okeanos (Oceanus) the origin of the gods, and Tethys their mother.” They are also identified with Ophion and Eurynome, the supposed first King and Queen of the Heavens before Cronus and Rhea had them overthrown. Because of that, and because Tethys is often described as a loving mother/nurse, I like to think of O&T as a unit (Oceanus still as the older one but Tethys following shortly after) who once took care of their younger siblings especially when Gaia and Uranus were constantly fighting and fell in love in the process, vowing to have many kids of their own when they got married. Oceanus abstaining from the castration can be because of many reasons, but I believe it had to do with his kind nature, being a father and not wanting to set a bad example towards them (thus disappointing Gaia and prompting Cronus to take action)

3. Crius (second brother)- EDIT: making Crius the second oldest as one of his sons, Pallas, later marries Styx, Oceanus, and Tethys' oldest daughter, and unless they were older woman/younger man I prefer that they were closer in age (and I guess narratively it would Make Sense for Oceanus' oldest to be betrothed to the child of the sibling who came after him). As for loyalty, his sons Pallas and Perses are vaguely dutiful to the Titans during the war.

4. Iapetus (third brother) - As much as I like Cronus and Iapetus being closest in age for brothers, Iapetus being older makes more sense to me. Atlas is his eldest son (with a wife and children) and Cronus’ right hand, rather than Iapetus himself, so I believe that Iapetus thinks Atlas would do a much better, youthful job at it. Cronus could see Iapetus as everything Oceanus should’ve been, the reliable older brother (even if his traitorous other nephew Prometheus joined the opposite side)

5. Hyperion (fourth brother) - no particular reason for this one besides being close to Theia’s age and his children being close to Hestia-Zeus' age.

6-7. Theia & Rhea (second and third sister) - TWINS TIME BABYYY. This is all purely headcanon be warned. As I’ve mentioned before, in my ficverse Theia and Rhea were born as twins destined to have favorable children. Theia eventually becomes close with Hyperion, marrying him and leaving Rhea jealous but happy to see little Eos, Helios, and Selene grow up. Rhea begins sticking closer to Themis, Phoebe, and Cronus after Theia’s wedding. Theia and Rhea’s relationship is still close as they once joked about their firstborns being fire starters (Helios and Hestia) in the short time frame before Cronus devoured Hestia.

8. Themis (fourth sister) - besides the constant of Themis being younger than Rhea, my main reasoning with this is simply that Zeus marrying his aunt who is younger than his mom is more palatable than marrying an aunt older than her (then again both Titanesses are older than his father but Zeus isn’t close to his dad anyways). Narratively her getting the oracle makes much sense too as her older sisters have their roles (Tethys is the mother of the ocean deities, and Theia and Rhea are destined to have favorable kids), it would make sense for Gaia to give her the Oracle and become her prophetic successor (before giving it to her younger sister Phoebe as she establishes herself as the goddess of divine law)

9. Phoebe (fifth daughter) - being the younger to Themis, she gets the Oracle of Delphi from her and is the third goddess to hold it before giving it to her grandson Apollo (Aeschylus, Eumenides 1 ff). Besides that, she’s renowned thanks to her grandchildren. I still want her to be older than Mnemosyne as I imagine her kind of mature while Mnemosyne more youthful.

9. Mnemoysne (Melete, Aiode, Thelixonoe, Arche, Mneme) (sixth-tenth daughter) - OKAY so I had this idea when reading about the Elder Muses, who were said to be daughters of Ge/Gaia according to Mimnermus. There are two accounts, one with four muses (Thelixonoe, Aode, Arche, and Melete) and one with three (Melete, Aiode, and Mneme). Mneme is said most likely to be Mnemosyne as her name means “Memory” but honestly, what if they were all Mnemosyne? What if Mnemosyne was like Garnet in Steven Universe, a combination of close Muse sisters to make up an entire deity? Seems cooler than just forgetting about these Muses. Making Mnemosyne the younger makes sense too since Muses are said to be youthful/have the least amount of responsibility.

10. Dione (eleventh daughter) - yeah actually why not make Dione a Titaness too? Most have her as a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys but there are accounts of her being the child of Gaia and Uranus, also I like the little headcanon of him and Phorcys being Titans as Plato wanted. (Albeit in most canon Phorcys is cited as a son of Gaia and Pontos which is. close enough!)

11-12. Coeus and Cronus (fifth and sixth brother) - I still wanted Coeus and Cronus to be twins/close the age gap, mainly because alliterative names are cool and should be highlighted. Coeus is allegedly the Titan of Intellect, so To Me as an older brother who gives advice and not really proactively fights like their older brothers (also, I like to think Asteria and Hestia are within the same age group), and Cronus’ birth order is fixed as the youngest.

EDIT: Aside from their main family tree, they also have the three Cyclopes and three Hecatoncheires, the Pontus-Gaia family tree of Eurybia (Crius' wife), Thaumas (Iris and Arke's father), Ceto (The Gorgon's mother), Nereus (father of the Nereids), Aegaeon (ally to the Titans), Phorcys (Ceto's mate) and the four Telchines who invented metalwork and made Cronus' infamous sickle.