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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

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Cecrops

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

Legendary first king of Athens, depicted as half-man, half-serpent (autochthonous). He judged the contest between Athena and Poseidon for Athens's patronage, choosing Athena's olive tree.

Detailed Definition
Cecrops, autochthonous and wise, judged the contest between Athena and Poseidon for Athens’ patronage, choosing the olive tree. He established marriage, burial, and writing. Poets invoke Cecrops as a symbol of Athenian identity, civic order, and the union of earth-born wisdom with divine favor in encomiastic and civic poetry.
Example
Example in poetry:
Cecrops, half-serpent founder-king of Athens, appears in Ovid and Apollodorus; Poets use Cecrops to symbolize autochthony (earth-born origin) and civic wisdom; In Athenian encomia, he represents the birth of law and civilization; “Cecrops’ rock” (Acropolis) evokes sacred urban space; His judgment in Athena-Poseidon contest suits poems about divine patronage.
Additional Notes
Cecrops, Athens’ first king (half-man, half-serpent), adjudicates the contest between Athena and Poseidon for the city’s patronage—choosing the olive tree over the salt spring. His autochthonous nature symbolizes Athenian identity. He appears in Euripides and Apollodorus, useful for analyzing civic foundation myths, gender (Athena’s victory), and the blending of human and chthonic elements.
Also Known As
Cecrops|Kekrops
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