Mnemosyne - The Memory Keeper color lithograph print. Measures 8"X10", printed on Kodak Professional ENDURA paper; matted in an acid free and lignin free 11"X14" mat and backing board. Signed by the artist and dated on the back. To the ancient Greeks, memory was a goddess residing in the heart. Mnemosyne was often contrasted to Lethe, the embodiment of forgetting. For instance at the oracular rituals of the seer Trophonius, initiates would be lowered into a cave symbolising the descent into the self or the underworld. As part of this journey it was important for them to cross the river of Lethe to forget their waking experiences so they might naturally descend into the depth of their inner world. However, when the initiates were pulled up from the cave, they were placed on the chair of Mnemosyne to help them remember. Mnemosyne is the aspect of memory that never forgets the soul’s experiences.