Mnemosyne shepherd, and Mnemosyne slept together for nine consecutive nights, thus conceiving the nine Muses. Mnemosyne also presided over a pool in Hades, 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. In Orphism, the initiated were taught to instead drink from the Mnemosyne, the river of memory, which would stop the transmigration of the soul. Although she was categorized as one of the Titans in the "Theogony", Mnemosyne did not quite fit that distinction. Titans were
Aether (mythology) Aether (mythology) In Greek mythology, Aether (; , "Aither", ) is one of the primordial deities. Aether is the personification of the upper air. He embodies the pure upper air that the gods breathe, as opposed to the normal air (ἀήρ, "aer") breathed by mortals. Like Tartarus and Erebus, Aether may have had shrines in ancient Greece, but he had no temples and is unlikely to have had a cult. In Hesiod's "Theogony", Aether (Light), was the son of Erebus (Darkness) and Nyx (Night), and the brother of Hemera (Day). The Roman mythographer Hyginus, says Aether was the son of