Spiritual concepts
Memory and the Greek gods
The Greeks developed an extremely comprehensive system to explain the Functions of Memory. In the chart below we can also see the individual personifications for some of the functions of Memory by the Greeks.
Thus the gods and goddesses we see in the chart below manage memory and knowledge.
Activity/function |
Greek God |
Managing Memory |
Mnemosyne |
Reorganising memory |
Eunoe from Dante |
Forgetting memories |
Lethe |
Deriving Knowledge |
Metion, Palamaon, Eupalamos |
The Theogony of Hesiod - translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White [1914]
But afterwards she [Gaia] lay with Uranus and bare deep-swirling Oceanus, Coeus and Crius and Hyperion and Iapetus, Theia and Rhea, Themis and Mnemosyne and gold-crowned Phoebe and lovely Tethys. After them was born Cronos the wily, youngest and most terrible of her children, and he hated his lusty sire.
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