A quiet notice V2Melody closes at midnight on , Spanish time.

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

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Euhemeria

Historical Festival
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

Ptolemaic Egyptian festival honoring Euhemerus or deified rulers, blending Greek and Egyptian traditions

Detailed Definition
Euhemeria was likely a Hellenistic-Egyptian festival under the Ptolemies, possibly commemorating Euhemerus’s theories of deified kings or celebrating ruler cults. It reflected syncretic theology. In poetry, Euhemeria appears as a symbol of political theology, the divinization of power, and cultural fusion—evoked in court poetry to legitimize monarchy or explore the boundary between mortal and divine in an imperial context.
Example
Example in poetry:
Theocritus’ encomia to Ptolemaic rulers reference Euhemeria as divine kingship made manifest; In Hellenistic court poetry, Euhemeria symbolizes the fusion of mortal rule and godhood; Later poets use Euhemeria to critique or celebrate political theology; Contemporary historical verse uses Euhemeria to examine the poetics of power and deification; Poets treat Euhemeria as a lens for understanding how rulers become myth; Modern verse evokes Euhemeria to explore the boundary between hero and god in cultural memory.
Additional Notes
Euhemeria likely celebrated deified Ptolemaic rulers or Euhemerus’s theory that gods were deified kings. It reflects Hellenistic political theology. Poets can use it to explore the divinization of power and cultural fusion. In teaching, link to ruler cults and how poetry legitimized monarchy through divine association.
Also Known As
Euhemeria Festival
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