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The hymn to Memory, sung over frankincense. Mnemosyne lay with Zeus and bore the Muses, and she keeps memory clear of the deceptions that harm the mind.
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77.1 Memory, queen, mother of the Muses. Of Mnemosyne. Incense: frankincense. I call Mnemosyne, consort of Zeus, queen, who bore the…77.4 Housemate of the soul. holding together every mind that lives at home in the souls of mortals, making…77.6 Wakeful, she brings all things to mind. sweetest one, wakeful, reminding us of everything that each of us has ever laid…77.9 Wake the memory of the rite. But, blessed goddess, wake in the initiates the memory of the holy rite, and…Open Hymn 77 in the full reader
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