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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

Feronia

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

Roman goddess of wildlife, fertility, and freedmen, worshipped in groves

Detailed Definition
Feronia was associated with untamed nature, abundance, and the liberation of slaves, with sanctuaries serving as places of manumission. She appears in Roman poetry as a symbol of freedom and natural plenty. Though not prominent in major epics, she is referenced in regional or antiquarian verse to highlight themes of emancipation, sacred groves, and the intersection of social justice with divine favor.
Example
Example in poetry:
Feronia, goddess of wildlife and fertility, is honored in Horace’s journey to her shrine in Etruria; Ovid notes her sanctuary at Terracina where freed slaves received liberty; She appears in inscriptions as protector of groves and springs; Virgil’s Aeneid places her cult near Mount Soracte, sacred to fire-walkers; In rustic poetry, Feronia is “she who grants abundance to the wild earth”; Livy records her temple as a place of asylum and renewal.
Additional Notes
Feronia is an ancient Italic goddess of wildlife, fertility, and freedom, particularly honored by freed slaves; her sanctuary at Terracina was a site of manumission; mentioned by Horace and Virgil, she represents the liminal space between civilization and wilderness; useful in poetry for themes of liberation, natural abundance, or regional Italian identity; students should connect her to other “grove goddesses” like Diana and note her association with fire (via Mount Soracte); her cult exemplifies how Roman religion absorbed local deities.
Also Known As
Goddess of Freedom Lady of the Wilds Patroness of Freed Slaves Feronia of Terracina
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