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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 E

Emer

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

Emer is the wife of Cú Chulainn, known for her wisdom, beauty, and loyalty.

Detailed Definition
She is celebrated for her eloquence and strength, often portrayed as a model of ideal womanhood. In poetry, Emer represents love, sacrifice, and the emotional depth of heroic tales. Her story adds nuance to the Ulster Cycle, highlighting the roles of women in mythic narratives.
Example
Example in poetry:
Emer appears as Cú Chulainn's wife, renowned for beauty, wisdom, and skill in six gifts; Poets use Emer to explore the woman who matches the hero in accomplishment yet suffers his absences; Her wooing, which required Cú Chulainn to prove himself through impossible tasks, provides material for courtship poetry; The image of Emer forgiving Cú Chulainn's affair with Fand creates complex emotional territory for verse; In feminist retellings, poets examine Emer's dignity and anger at being sidelined in her husband's adventures; Modern poetry often privileges Emer's perspective, making her more than the hero's prize
Additional Notes
Emer, wife of Cú Chulainn, is renowned for her “six gifts”: beauty, voice, needlework, wisdom, chastity, and speech; she demands Cú Chulainn complete heroic training before marriage, asserting female agency; her loyalty during his affairs (e.g., with Fand) underscores wifely virtue without passivity; poets may use Emer to explore partnership, intellectual equality, or the domestic as heroic; her name appears in wisdom texts, linking her to the filid’s ideal of eloquent womanhood; she offers a counterbalance to tragic figures like Deirdre—enduring rather than doomed.
Also Known As
Eimhear Emher Eimear
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