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 T

Tailtiu

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

Foster-mother of Lugh and eponymous founder of the Lughnasadh festival

Detailed Definition
Tailtiu died clearing plains for agriculture; Lugh instituted games in her honor. She embodies sacrifice for the land and communal memory. Poets invoke Tailtiu to celebrate the origins of harvest festivals, the debt owed to ancestral labor, and the fusion of mourning and festivity in Irish tradition.
Example
Example in poetry:
Tailtiu is a foster-mother of Lugh and namesake of the Lughnasadh festival; She dies of exhaustion clearing plains for agriculture, and Lugh institutes games in her honor; Poets reference Tailtiu to explore sacrifice, land-clearing, and commemoration; The Tailteann Games were a real historical assembly tied to her myth; She embodies the maternal cost of civilization and cultivation; Her story links mythic labor to seasonal ritual.
Additional Notes
Tailtiu is the foster-mother of Lugh who dies clearing plains for agriculture; Lugh institutes the Lughnasadh games in her honor. Students should analyze Tailtiu as a symbol of maternal sacrifice for civilization and the link between labor and ritual. The Tailteann Games were a real historical assembly. Poets reference Tailtiu to explore commemoration, the cost of cultivation, or the feminine foundation of seasonal festivals—especially in works about land, memory, or the origins of communal gathering in Irish tradition.
Also Known As
Tailtiu the Earth-Mother Foster-Mother of Lugh The Clearing Queen The Games’ Patroness
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