Orphism - The Coolest God in Mythology

In hesiod's theogony, kings and poets receive their powers of authoritative speech from their possession of nimesen. Zeus in a form of a mortal shepherd and nimesen slept together for nine consecutive nights, thus conceiving the nine muses. Nimesen also presided over a pool in hades, counterpart of the river lath according to a series of fourth century b c inscriptions. Dead souls drank from leith so they would not remember their past lives. When reincarnated in horpism, the initiated were taught to instead drink from the nemisen, the river of memory,.