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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

Home › Glossary › Letter B

Breogán

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

Breogán is the Galician king and ancestor of the Milesians who built a great tower from which his son Íth first saw Ireland, establishing the legendary Spanish-Irish connection.

Detailed Definition
Breogán's tower in Brigantia (modern Corunna, Spain) served as the literal and symbolic launching point for the Milesian conquest of Ireland. This connection explains medieval genealogical links between Iberian and Irish peoples. His name is preserved in Galician identity, where he remains a cultural symbol. In poetry, Breogán represents ancestral origins beyond Ireland's shores, the visionary perspective that sees destiny across waters, and the architectural achievement that makes distant lands accessible. He embodies the theme of exile's reverse—the homeland left behind that gives rise to new nations.
Example
Example in poetry:
Breogán appears as the Milesian king who built a great tower in Spain from which Ireland was first sighted; Poets use Breogán to represent the distant origins of the Gaelic people before they came to Ireland; The tower of Breogán provides imagery for poems about vision, aspiration, and the desire for new lands; In Galician poetry, Breogán is claimed as an ancestor, connecting Spanish and Irish Celtic traditions; Irish nationalist verse invokes Breogán when tracing Irish identity back to Iberian roots; The name Breogán evokes themes of migration, vision, and the founding of dynasties
Additional Notes
Breogán, mythical founder of Brigantia (modern A Coruña), built a tower so tall his son Íth glimpsed Ireland’s shores—sparking the Milesian invasion; this tower echoes the Biblical Tower of Babel and Iberian origin myths, positioning Ireland within a pan-European mythic framework; Breogán symbolizes ancestral reach, vision, and the catalyst of destiny; poets may invoke him when exploring diaspora, ancestral longing, or the moment of discovery; his Galician roots highlight the Atlantic connections in Celtic myth, useful for comparative poetic studies.
Also Known As
Breogan Breoghain Brigus
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