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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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Angerona

Mythology
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

Goddess who relieved pain and sorrow, particularly associated with the winter solstice and secret names.

Detailed Definition
Angerona was worshipped during the Divalia festival and depicted with a bandaged mouth, symbolizing secrecy or the unspeakable. Poets reference her in contexts of hidden suffering, cosmic renewal, or the power of silence, aligning her with themes of endurance, mystery, and the cyclical nature of time.
Example
Example in poetry:
Angerona, goddess of secrecy and relief from anguish, appears in winter poetry: "Angerona guards the year’s darkest hour, her finger pressed to silent lips"; During the Divalia festival, poets honor her: "We veil our faces as Angerona veils the sun’s return"; A lyric might plead: "Angerona, ease this hidden sorrow—let my heart thaw with the solstice"; She symbolizes resilience: "Like Angerona, I bear pain in silence until light returns."
Additional Notes
Angerona was worshipped during the Divalia festival on December 21 (winter solstice), the year’s shortest day; she is depicted with a bandaged mouth and finger to lips, symbolizing secrecy—possibly guarding the secret name of Rome (which, if spoken aloud, would doom the city); she also relieved anguish (angor), linking her to both physical and existential pain; her cult highlights Roman beliefs in the power of silence and hidden knowledge; poets may invoke her in winter elegies, meditations on secrecy, or rites of renewal at year’s end.
Also Known As
silence goddess anxiety relief winter solstice
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