Haematophagy of Mnemosyne and Her Daughters
Description: Haematophagy of Mnemosyne and Her Daughters is a sacred rite Greco-Roman mysticism. The ritual is based on the chthonian rites of the Orphic mysteries. Mnemosyne is the goddess of memory in Greek mythology, but also a Titanide, or Titaness and the daughter of the Titans Uranus and Gaia. Mnemosyne was the mother of the nine Muses, fathered by her nephew, Zeus. The nine muses were listed as follows: Calliope (epic poetry), Clio (history), Euterpe (music), Erato (lyric poetry), Melpomene (tragedy), Polyhymnia (hymns), Terpsichore (dance), Thalia (comedy), Urania (astronomy).
Zeus, in a form of a mortal 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 the 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.
In Hesiod’s Theogony, kings and poets receive their powers of authoritative speech from their possession of Mnemosyne and their special relationship with the Muses.
The effect of this ritual is to consume the blood of the dead so as to permanently gain the abilities of the deceased. A necromancy applies to the truly dead, the spiritual dead like ghosts and the physical dead like vampires, this ritual applies equally to all the above.
Origin: Benesj the Black -- While the necromancer known as Benesj the Black produced the latest versions of Greco-Roman rituals, the pale rites underwent three separate evolution beginning with the Cappadocian style and proceeding through an Egyptian style and finally the Greco-Roman style. All such rituals are based on the principle of Authority rather than that of Taboo.
Ingredients: A bag of sea salt for clarification. Incense made from rosemary for remembrance. A solid silver syringe (for purity) and the recently opened cranium of the victim in which to mix the ingredients. A subterranean pool.
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Reference: http://maierstorm.org/Vampire/index.php?title=Extract_of_Mnemosyne / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemosyne
