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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

Februus

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

God of purification and the underworld, associated with the month of February and cleansing rites.

Detailed Definition
Februus presided over rituals of expiation and the dead, lending his name to February (februa = purifications). In poetry, he appears during funerary or calendrical reflections, symbolizing the necessary cleansing of sin or memory to ensure communal and cosmic order.
Example
Example in poetry:
Februus, god of purification (linked to February’s rites), appears in cleansing hymns: "Februus washes the year clean with icy rites"; Associated with the Lupercalia: "Februus’ whip strikes gently—fertility follows"; In elegiac calendar poetry: "February honors Februus—death and renewal entwined"; Symbol of transition: "Februus strips the old to make way for new"; A penitent’s prayer: "Februus, scour my soul as the Luperci scour the hills."
Additional Notes
Februus was a chthonic god of purification, linked to the Lupercalia and the month of February (februarius, from februa, “purifications”); he may be an aspect of Dis Pater or Pluto; his rites involved scourging with thongs to cleanse the city and promote fertility; Ovid connects him to underworld judgment and ancestral rites; poets reference him in calendrical or funerary verse; his dual role in purification and death shows how Romans linked cleansing with transition—February was a month for both expelling evil and honoring the dead.
Also Known As
purification god February cleanser underworld aspect
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