Mnemosyne

MNEMOSYNE was the Titan goddess of memory and remembrance and the inventress of language and words.

As a Titan daughter of Uranus (Heaven), Mnemosyne was also a goddess of time. She represented the rote memorization required to preserve the stories of history and the sagas of myth before the introduction of writing. In this role she was the mother of the Mousai (Muses) who were originally patron goddesses of poets of the oral tradition.

Finally Mnemosyne was a minor oracular goddess like her sister-Titanesses. She presided over the underground oracle of Trophonios (Trophonius) in Boiotia (Boeotia).

The Titaness Mnemosyne was sometimes named as one of three Elder Mousai (Muses), who preceded the nine daughters of Zeus as goddesses of music.