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.

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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Étaín

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

Beautiful heroine transformed into a fly and reborn, central to Tochmarc Étaíne

Detailed Definition
Étaín’s story involves love, metamorphosis, and reincarnation across lifetimes. She embodies resilience, beauty, and the soul’s journey. Poets reference Étaín to explore themes of identity loss and recovery, the persistence of love through time, and the fluid boundaries between human and insect, mortal and divine.
Example
Example in poetry:
Étaín is a sun goddess reborn as a mortal woman in “The Wooing of Étaín”; Transformed into a fly by Fuamnach, she suffers centuries of exile before rebirth; Her story explores love, transformation, and identity across lifetimes; Poets reference Étaín to examine beauty, resilience, and reincarnation; Her name evokes luminous femininity and cyclical renewal; Étaín’s myth is a cornerstone of Irish romantic and mystical poetry.
Additional Notes
Étaín is a sun goddess reborn as a mortal woman in “The Wooing of Étaín.” Transformed into a fly by Fuamnach, she endures centuries of exile before rebirth and reunion with Midir. Her story explores love, transformation, identity, and reincarnation. Students should study Étaín as a model of resilience and cyclical renewal. Her luminous beauty and suffering make her a cornerstone of Irish romantic and mystical poetry. Poets use her to examine the soul’s journey, the persistence of love across lifetimes, and the cost of jealousy.
Also Known As
Étaín the Sun-Maiden The Reborn Queen The Fly of Exile Beloved of Midir
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