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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 F

Fea

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

Fea is one of the war goddesses associated with the Morrígan, representing aspects of battle fury, often appearing alongside her sister Nemain to terrify warriors.

Detailed Definition
As a member of the trio of war goddesses, Fea embodies the supernatural terror and chaos of battle. Her name may relate to concepts of frenzy or excitement in combat. She appears less frequently in surviving texts than the Morrígan or Badb but represents similar functions of battle magic and psychological warfare. In poetry, Fea symbolizes the lesser-known faces of war's horror, the panic that defeats armies before blows are struck, and the feminine forces that govern combat's psychological dimension. She embodies themes of terror as weapon, the supernatural aspects of warfare, and the multiplicity of death's faces on the battlefield.
Example
Example in poetry:
Fea appears as a war goddess, one of the sisters or aspects associated with the Morrigan; Poets invoke Fea when exploring the multiplicity of Irish war goddesses and their overlapping identities; Her name connected to battle frenzy provides material for poems about combat's psychological dimensions; The scarcity of independent stories about Fea allows poets creative freedom in characterization; In contemporary verse about women and war, Fea represents feminine martial divinity; The figure allows poets to explore how minor goddesses relate to major ones in Celtic pantheons
Additional Notes
Fea (“hate” or “wrath”) is one of the three war goddesses often conflated with the Morrígan, alongside Badb and Macha; she embodies the psychological terror of battle—panic, fury, and chaos; though less prominent than her sisters, Fea’s name captures the emotional core of warfare; poets may use her to personify inner conflict, collective violence, or the dehumanizing aspect of war; invoking Fea enriches the Morrígan’s triune complexity, allowing nuanced exploration of war’s multifaceted horror.
Also Known As
Fae Fé Badb (in triune Morrígan contexts)
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