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Closes

A note from Richard

V2Melody will close at midnight on 20 January 2028

This site has been a retirement project in musical poetry: poems chosen with care and set to music, offered freely for as long as it felt right to keep the garden open.

The work no longer holds the place it once did in my life. I have gone as far with it as I wish to go. Like a sand mandala, it was made to be completed and then released. I am not attached to its permanence, and I do not believe any of it needs to last beyond the time it was given. The poems were already here before I arrived and began to experiment with them. They will still be here when these musical experiments, and indeed myself, have been swept away, like the sand of a mandala. Nothing has been lost.

I want a simpler end to my life, days of simple love and enjoyment with my wonderful wife of 20 years. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit that life.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the site.

The experimental music I am making now is on my Suno profile. Those pieces stay there, and are not added to this site.

Until midnight on 20 January 2028, Spanish time, everything remains available exactly as it is. That is when my VPS server contract comes to an end, and it will not be renewed. After that, the server will be switched off and the site will disappear.

The Mandala Is Finished explains this more fully.

Thank you to anyone who found a poem, a track, or a quiet moment here.

The pleasure was in the making.

Richard

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Alignak

Folklore
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Alignak is the Inuit moon god, controlling tides, weather, and the souls of the dead in Arctic folklore.

Detailed Definition
He governs natural forces and afterlife journeys. In poetry, Alignak symbolizes harsh lunar dominion, survival in extremes, tidal pull on human fate, and indigenous northern reverence for the moon, inspiring verses on cosmic control, spirit migration, and the moon's austere authority over frozen realms.
Example
Example in poetry:
The Inuit shaman-poet Uvavnuk sang of celestial powers after her vision, invoking spirits akin to Alignak who rule moon, weather, and transformation in the arctic night; In modern Inuit-inspired poetry, Alignak appears as the controller of tides and storms: 'Alignak, fierce guardian of the polar dark, calm the raging seas beneath your lunar crown.'; Poets draw on Alignak to symbolize nature's dual force: 'When Alignak turns his face, earthquakes stir and comets blaze across the frozen sky in rhythmic fury.'; A poet might craft a shamanic ode: 'Alignak guides the hunter's path with silver light while tempering storms that test the soul's endurance.'; In folklore verse, Alignak embodies unpredictable weather: 'Alignak's breath stirs the winds and waves, teaching poets the power of moon-led chaos and calm.'
Additional Notes
Alignak is the Inuit moon god who controls tides, weather phenomena like storms and comets, as well as earthquakes and eclipses, embodying the harsh yet life-sustaining forces of the Arctic environment; in folklore he is sometimes linked to guiding or returning souls of the dead for rebirth, highlighting themes of transformation and cyclical renewal that poets can draw upon for imagery of resilience amid chaos; poetry students may use Alignak to explore dualities of destruction and protection, such as calming seas for fishermen or stirring tempests, contrasting with sea goddess Sedna; this figure enriches verses on indigenous Arctic perspectives, lunar influence on survival, and the moon's role in natural balance, encouraging research into Inuit oral traditions for authentic cultural representation in modern bardic work.
Also Known As
Aningan Igaluk Aningâĸ
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