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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. 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

Builg

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

An obscure early Irish mythical group or tribe referenced in medieval texts, sometimes linked to pre-Celtic inhabitants.

Detailed Definition
The Builg (or Fir Bolg) were early inhabitants of Ireland defeated by the Tuatha Dé Danann. They represent the pre-Tuatha strata of Irish mythic history. Poets invoke them to symbolize displaced peoples, the layers of cultural memory, and the cyclical nature of conquest and settlement in the Irish landscape.
Example
Example in poetry:
Builg is a term sometimes used for a mythical tribe or Fomorian group; In some texts, the Builg are early inhabitants displaced by later settlers; Though obscure, they appear in pseudo-historical poems about Ireland’s origins; Poets may use “Builg” to evoke ancient, pre-Gaelic peoples; The name survives in place names, linking myth to geography; In poetic genealogies, the Builg represent the layered history of the land.
Additional Notes
Builg (or Fir Bolg) refers to a mythical early people of Ireland, said to have been enslaved in Greece and returned with leather bags (“bolgs”)—hence the name. They are defeated by the Tuatha Dé Danann at the First Battle of Mag Tuired. Though “Builg” can refer to the tribe, it sometimes denotes Fomorian groups in older texts. Students should understand the Fir Bolg as part of Ireland’s layered origin myth—representing an earlier, perhaps indigenous, stratum of settlement. Their story reflects medieval attempts to historicize myth through pseudo-ethnography.
Also Known As
Fir Bolg The Leather-Bag People The Builg Tribe The First Tillers of Ireland
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