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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 E

Epona

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

Gaulish-Roman goddess of horses, donkeys, and cavalry, widely venerated across the Empire.

Detailed Definition
Epona protected equines and riders, often depicted side-saddle with foals. In poetry, especially in provincial or military contexts, she symbolizes mobility, loyalty, and the fusion of Roman and Celtic traditions, appearing in pastoral or epinician verse celebrating travel, war, or rural life.
Example
Example in poetry:
Epona, Celtic-Roman goddess of horses, appears in cavalry hymns: "Epona, seated on her mare, guards the stables and the riders"; Though rare in Latin poetry, she’s evoked in provincial verse: "Gallic bards sing Epona’s name as hooves thunder"; A stable charm: "Epona, calm the stallion’s heart"; In travel poetry: "Under Epona’s eye, the road is safe"; She symbolizes loyalty: "Epona knows each horse by name—none are lost to her."
Additional Notes
Epona, though of Celtic origin, was widely adopted by the Roman cavalry and appears in inscriptions and reliefs across the Empire—from Britain to the Danube; uniquely, she was a non-Roman deity officially embraced by the state; depicted seated side-saddle on a mare, often with foals or a cornucopia; she protected stables, travelers, and cavalrymen; poets rarely mention her in classical Latin verse (due to her provincial roots), but she appears in later Gallo-Roman hymns; she exemplifies Roman religious syncretism and the military’s role in spreading cults.
Also Known As
horse goddess cavalry protector Gaulish rider
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