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

Home › Glossary › Letter H

Hecate

Mythology
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

Want to hear it? Click the Listen button to hear the browser speak the word using text-to-speech!

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

Greek goddess of witchcraft, ghosts, and crossroads, often depicted with torches and associated with the underworld and night.

Detailed Definition
Hecate is a liminal deity associated with witchcraft, ghosts, and necromancy, often depicted holding torches at crossroads. She aided Demeter in searching for Persephone and guided souls in the afterlife. Poets invoke her to explore themes of mystery, transition, and the power of the unseen.
Example
Example in poetry:
Hecate, goddess of crossroads and magic, aids Demeter in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter; In Theogony, Hesiod honors Hecate as a powerful cosmic deity; Virgil invokes Hecate in Aeneid IV during Dido’s necromancy; Ovid describes her triple form in Metamorphoses; Shakespeare’s Macbeth draws on Hecate for witchcraft scenes; Modern feminist poetry reclaims Hecate as a symbol of female power.
Additional Notes
Hecate, goddess of magic, crossroads, and the underworld, is often depicted with torches and dogs; she aided Demeter in searching for Persephone and guided souls—associated with liminality, witchcraft, and female power—key in mystery cults and modern feminist or occult poetry; triple-formed (maiden, mother, crone).
Also Known As
Triple-Faced Goddess Guide of Crossroads Hekatē
Skip to main content