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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.

I want a simpler life, without the hassle of being online. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit the life I want.

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

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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Aoi Mac Ollamain

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

A legendary Irish poet and judge in early Celtic lore, renowned for wisdom, poetic skill, and roles in mythic legal and bardic traditions.

Detailed Definition
Aoi Mac Ollamain served as a chief poet and arbiter, famed for his wisdom and eloquence. He appears in legal and bardic texts as an ideal of justice through language. Poets reference him to emphasize the power of words in maintaining social order and the moral authority of the bardic class in ancient Ireland.
Example
Example in poetry:
Aoi Mac Ollamain is a legendary poet and judge in early Irish tradition; He appears in legal and poetic texts as a model of wisdom and eloquence; Aoi’s judgments often resolve disputes through riddles or poetic insight; His name signifies the high status of the ollamh (chief poet) in Gaelic society; Poets cite Aoi to emphasize the ethical role of verse in justice; His legacy illustrates the fusion of law, poetry, and moral authority in medieval Ireland.
Additional Notes
Aoi Mac Ollamain is a legendary poet and judge in early Irish tradition, exemplifying the ollamh (chief poet) ideal: wise, eloquent, and ethically grounded. He appears in legal texts like the Senchas Már as a model arbitrator who resolves disputes through poetic insight or riddles. For students, Aoi illustrates the fusion of law, poetry, and moral authority in Gaelic society—where verse was not art for art’s sake but a tool of justice. Modern poets can learn from his legacy that language carries social responsibility, and that poetic form can encode ethical reasoning.
Also Known As
Aoi the Judge Mac Ollamain the Wise The Poet of Justice The Ollamh of Truth
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