#mnemosyne

My design for Mnemosyne, daughter of Gaia and Ouranos. Due to her connection to the river of Memory, I decided to depict her with water from that river and adorned with river pearls, which represent individual memories.

In the lore I imagine for her, she can see every memory that has been turned into a pearl through the water of the river (you will see this in detail in my fic Cuckoo's Nest), and in the river itself, the memories of the dead are collected. The memories Mnemosyne wears on her jewelry are ones that touched her heart upon seeing them.

Of the female Titanes they say that Mnemosyne discoveried the uses of the power of reason, and that she gave a designation to every object about us by means of the names which we use to express whatever we would and to hold conversation one with another. And to this goddess is also attributed the power to call things to memory and to rememberance which men possess, and it is this power which gave her the name she received.