Amnesia Anamnesis Mnemosine Memory Memorial Mind Remind Remember

In the United States, MEMORIAL DAY is celebrated on May 30th. This MEMorial promotes the reMEMBrance of former MEMBers of the Armed Forces. Notably, perhaps soon, World War II soldiers will be honored by a memorial!

Mercenary soldiers rarely deserve Memorials and
the same is true for Mercenary Merchants who worship Mercury.

All memorials represent an effort to prevent the MEMory of the departed from fading into oblivion or Hades.

This review is a reMINDer that MEMory along with reason and logic is a key element of MIND, a subject of another illustrated overview. MEMber, a term referring to "a part" is also explored in another overview. The ideas in MIND and in reMEMBer are found in terms such as manic, mathematics, money and even alien and alimony.

In brief, our mind has reCORDs and reCORDar in Spanish means to reMEMber. In a broader sense, MEMBER points to MEMBRanes such as the MENINGES and the skin. MEMBER may also refer to appendages such as the limbs or the penis.

Roman memorial monument or mausoleum for Emperor Hadrian.

This overview can be characterized as a MEMo or MEMorandum to help MEMorize implications in MEMory, MEMorial, MEMoir, MEMorabilia as well as in AMNESIA, ANAMNESIS, MNEMOSINE, MENTOR and REMEMBRANCE.

AMNESIA negates the possibility of ANAMNESIS or the systematic collection and interpretation of clinical symptoms. One advantage of medicine over veterinary medicine is that human patients can help physicians make a diagnosis by participating in anamnesis which describes the process of reporting symptoms under medical guidance. Symptoms linked with signs may point to syndromes or "patterns of features that run together" which in turn may suggest causes to be tested by extended imaging and laboratory investigations.


Urania Muse of Astronomy.	Terpsichore Muse of the Dance (with a triangle, symbol of rythm).	Caliope Muse of eloquence and heroic poetry.

We owe much to ancient poets who created MNEMOSINE, a Goddess whose task was to delay oblivion. As a mother of the nine MUSES, MNEMOSINE nursed her daughters to offer us MUSIC and other aMUSEments unified by a stress on beauty. In fact, a critical MNEMONIC technique or device to enhance MEMorization of the departed is the beauty of MEMORIALS, including MAUSOLEUMS.



The Muses Melpomene (Tragedy or Music), Erato (Romantic Poetry) and Polymnia (Lyricism).	The Muses Clio (History), Euterpe (Music), and Thalia (Comedy).

The link of MEMory with mind and MENtal health is suggested by CORDura and reCORDar which in Spanish denote MENtal sanity and reMEMBrance or MEMory.

Ukrainian language reminds us that Olympic Gods decreed that upon death, mortals were to enter HADES. In Ukrainian, zHADAi is REMEMBER as if to underscore that to be remembered is like being rescued from oblivion. Stories tell that to ease what may be a painful transition into the silent and dark world of Hades, mortals were to be deprived of MEMory or made AMNESIC to render them oblivious as they entered oblivion.



Telemachus and Mentor welcomed by Calypso and her Nymphs.

Ancient poets say that as Odysseus departed to fight in Troy, he entrusted his household and son Telemachus to his friend MENTOR. Legends state that Athena, the Goddess of wisdom, often impersonated Mentor to better tutor Telemachus. When Telemachus traveled in search of Odysseus, he took along Mentor and the fugitive prophet Theclymenus.

Finally, ideas in "to reMEMber" or "to MIND" overlap with those in MOURN, MORality, MORtal and MAR. These complex connections are presented in the key words listed in the left column. It may suffice to say that MORality rests upon our ability "to mind" and remember the pain of other creatures, human or not.

The task of the Muses Urania and Calliope was to be Amusing.
Calliope and Apollo had a son Orpheus who could also mesmerize all living.
Urania delivered Hymeneos who is remembered in many wedding songs.