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Mnemosyne also presided over a pool [5] in Hades, a counterpart to the river Lethe, according to a series of 4th-century BC Greek funerary inscriptions in dactylic hexameter. Dead souls drank from Lethe so they would not remember their past lives when reincarnated .
Lethe, the river of forgetfulness, is one of the five rivers of the Greek underworld; the other four are Acheron (the river of sorrow), Cocytus (the river of lamentation), Phlegethon (the river of fire) and Styx (the river that separates Earth and the Underworld). According to Statius, Lethe bordered Elysium, the final resting place of the ...
Lethe, as a daughter of Eris, had a negative connotation, which can be seen from her association with Death, and as the "evil" counterpart of Mneme/Mnemosyne. However Lethe's association with Sleep might perhaps also imply a positive aspect, similar to that of Sleep who is said to "free us of cares" and "offer sweet respite from toil".
Sailor Lethe's much less aggressive sister, Sailor Mnemosyne, is the watchman of the "River of Memory." When the main character, Sailor Moon, falls into Lethe's river, she loses all sense of her memory, as do the rest of her allies when they fall in. Sailor Moon is able to regain her memory, but Princess Kakyuu must drink from Mnemosyne 's ...
Sailor Lethe (セーラーレテ, Sērā Rete) and Sailor Mnemosyne (セーラームネモシュネ, Sērā Munemoshune) are twin sisters that appear only in the manga and in the Cosmos film. [1] Sailor Lethe is named for a naiad in Greek mythology , and for a river of the Greek underworld where dead souls go to forget their past lives before ...
Lethe (Λήθη), the river of forgetfulness (its counterpart was the waters of Mnemosyne) Phlegethon (Φλεγέθων), the river of fire; Styx (Στύξ), the river of hatred and oaths; Tartarus (Τάρταρος), the primeval god of the dark, stormy pit of Hades; Thanatos (Θάνατος), personification of death
Trophonios has been of interest to classical scholars because the rivers of Lethe and Mnemosyne have close parallels with the Myth of Er at the end of Plato's Republic, with a series of Orphic funerary inscriptions on gold leaves, and with several passages about Memory and forgetting in Hesiod's Theogony.
The two remaining Titan sisters, Themis and Mnemosyne, became wives of their nephew Zeus. From Oceanus and Tethys came the three thousand river gods, and three thousand Oceanid nymphs. [3] From Coeus and Phoebe came Leto, another wife of Zeus, and Asteria. [4] From Crius and Eurybia came Astraeus, Pallas, and Perses. [5]