Why this word is great
AUTOMELON — [Noun] A hymn in Orthodox Christian liturgy that serves as the melodic and rhythmic archetype for composing derivative hymns. From Byzantine Greek αὐτόμελον (autómelon), neuter of αὐτόμελος, from Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós, "self") + μέλος (mélos, "melody, song"). Unlike "prosomia" (which borrow an automelon’s tune like tenants in a rented house) or "idiomelon" (which stand alone, refusing replication), the automelon is both origin and authority. It is the seed from which a thousand chants bloom, the first footprint pressed into wet clay that guides all others, the single candle whose flame is passed until the whole dark chapel shimmers—proof that even in worship, nothing is truly new, only borrowed and reborn.