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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.

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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Canopic Jar the Viscera

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

The jars specifically designed to hold the liver, lungs, stomach, and intestines

Detailed Definition
As the Viscera containers, Canopic Jars ensured the deceased retained their physical completeness in the afterlife, guarded by deities like Imsety and Duamutef. Poets reference them to evoke the fragility of the body, the reverence for internal life, and the ancient belief that even hidden parts must be honored for wholeness—frequently in somber or ritualistic verse.
Example
Example in poetry:
Canopic Jar the Viscera, preserving organs for the afterlife; Poets say Canopic Jar the Viscera keeps the heart’s companions safe; The Viscera jars are nested in alabaster chests like sacred eggs; In spells, the deceased declares, “My entrails are pure before you”; Canopic Jar the Viscera symbolizes bodily integrity beyond death; Verse uses them to explore the physicality of immortality.
Additional Notes
Canopic Jar the Viscera specifies their contents: liver, lungs, stomach, and intestines (the heart remained in the body)—this detail allows poets to reflect on the physicality of death, the hierarchy of organs, or the sacredness of internal life.
Also Known As
Jar of the Viscera Viscera Container
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