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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

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Partholón

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

Partholón led the second invasion of Ireland after the Flood, establishing agriculture, crafts, and the first battles against the monstrous Fomorians before his people perished from plague.

Detailed Definition
Partholón's settlement marks Ireland's re-civilization, introducing brewing, metalworking, and land division. His people cleared four plains and created seven lakes, shaping the landscape itself. The tragic end of his race through pestilence reflects cycles of prosperity and destruction in Irish mythological history. In poetry, Partholón represents the civilizing force, human ingenuity against hostile forces, and the fragility of even the mightiest societies. His legacy explores themes of progress, environmental transformation, and the inevitable decline that follows golden ages.
Example
Example in poetry:
Partholón appears as the second settler of Ireland in mythological poetry about successive invasions; Poets invoke Partholón when tracing Ireland's layered history of habitation and loss; His people's death from plague creates material for poems about communities entirely erased; The clearing of plains and creation of lakes attributed to Partholón connects divine action to landscape formation; In contemporary verse, Partholón represents civilizations that flourish and vanish completely; Modern poets use the Partholonians to explore themes of legacy, erasure, and whether anything survives total destruction
Additional Notes
Partholón leads the second wave of settlers after the Flood, introducing ploughing, brewing, and the first murder in Ireland (his wife’s adultery and his retaliatory slaughter); his people die of plague, symbolizing the fragility of civilization; poets may use Partholón to explore beginnings, human frailty, or the mythic “firsts” that define culture; his story, like Cessair’s, blends Biblical and native motifs to assert Ireland’s ancient sanctity; though brief, his cycle establishes key themes of settlement, sin, and mortality.
Also Known As
Partholon Partholomus Bartholomaeus (Latinized)
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