希臘女神Mnemosyne

Who was Mnemosyne in Greek Mythology?

Mnemosyne is the personification of memory. She was a Titaness, the daughter of Uranus and Gaia. Zeus coupled with her in Pieria for nine consecutive nights, and she later gave birth to the Nine Muses. There was a spring dedicated to Mnemosyne before the Oracle of Trophonius at Lebadea. The mortals who came to consult the Oracle had a choice afterwards to either keep their Memory and drink from the Spring of Mnemosyne or to forget their past and drink from the Spring of Lethe.

The children of Mnemosyne, the Muses, were not only divine singers, whose music delighted Zeus and other gods; they also presided over thought in all its forms: eloquence, persuasion, knowledge, history, mathematics and astronomy. The oldest song of the Muses is the one sung after the victory of the Olympians over the Titans to celebrate the birth of a new order. They were often referred to as the Pierides in Poetry. The Muses took part as singers in all the great celebrations held by the gods.

妮默辛 (Mnemosyne) 是掌管記憶的泰坦女神，也是文字的發明者。天神宙斯與妮默辛度過了九個夜晚，於是生下了九位繆司女神。九位繆司：司文藝、音樂、舞蹈、哲學、天文等人間知識活動的九個女神，依次為:卡禮歐琵（Calliope，手持蠟板與尖筆，司史詩）、克麗歐（Clio，司歷史）、幽德琵（Euterpe，手持雙管長笛，司抒情詩）、瑟萊雅（Thalia，司喜劇與田園詩）、梅歐頗麗尼（Melpomene，戴面具與葡萄葉冠，司悲劇）、德珀昔可尼（Terpsichore，手持豎琴，司歌舞）、愛拉朵（Erato，司愛情詩）、波麗心尼亞（Polyhymnia，司頌歌）、憂拉尼亞（Urania，手持地球儀，司天文），阿波羅為其首領。