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 O

Onatah

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

Onatah is an Iroquois corn spirit, daughter of Sky Woman, symbolizing agricultural fertility and the sacred bond between earth and sustenance.

Detailed Definition
Onatah is the Iroquois spirit of corn, daughter of Sky Woman, who was kidnapped by the Evil Spirit but rescued, symbolizing the cycle of planting and harvest. She embodies agricultural fertility and feminine power. In poetry, Onatah symbolizes sustenance, seasonal renewal, and the sacred bond between women and crop, often invoked in verses about food sovereignty, ecological balance, and indigenous agrarian wisdom.
Example
Example in poetry:
Onatah, the Iroquois Corn Spirit, appears in poetry as the golden maiden whose hair feeds nations; A verse describes Onatah dancing with bean and squash sisters in the Three Sisters garden; Poets use Onatah to critique industrial monoculture: “She weeps in fields where her kin are banished”; In feminist poetry, she embodies feminine sustenance without sacrifice; Her kernels become metaphors for stories—each holding life if planted with care.
Additional Notes
Onatah is the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) spirit of the corn, daughter of the Earth and sister to the beans and squash (the Three Sisters); she symbolizes agricultural harmony and feminine sustenance—poets may reference Onatah to honor Indigenous food sovereignty and interdependence, but should link her to the living agricultural practices and thanksgiving addresses of the Haudenosaunee rather than treating her as a mythic abstraction.
Also Known As
Corn Spirit
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