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The Sleeping Almanac: Sleep Stories for Adults from Myth and Fairy Tale episodes
- Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac
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The Sleeping Almanac is also a shelf of books, bedtime stories to read and mythology coloring books: gildenmyth.com/books
The world's oldest stories, told slowly enough to fall asleep to. Three hour sleep stories for anyone who lies down at night and cannot switch the day off: Greek heroes and the whole Odyssey, Norse gods, Gilgamesh and the clay tablets of Babylon, the lost books of the Bible, Russian fairy tales and King Arthur. New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Every story is also on YouTube at The Sleeping Almanac: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac
The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice.
1 min - Norse Mythology Sleep Stories · 11 Hour Compilation Part 2 · Fenrir, Loki and the World Serpent
The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it.
Subscribing on YouTube helps the show grow, even if you only listen here: youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac
The Sleeping Almanac is also a shelf of books, bedtime stories to read and mythology coloring books: gildenmyth.com/books
A bonus for the long nights: six Norse Mythology sleep stories from this feed in one long episode, told back to back with short pauses between them, then a long stretch of quiet music so it keeps playing through the night. It is the same compilation that airs live on our YouTube channel tonight.
In this episode:
0:00:00 Welcome
0:00:33 The Binding of Fenrir
1:48:13 The Binding of Loki
3:36:37 Thor and the World Serpent
5:04:36 The Giant's Bride, and the Theft of Mjolnir
6:55:04 The Mead of Poetry
8:33:11 Skadi, the Cold Mountain Bride
9:50:32 Ambience, the long nightEvery story here is also in the feed as its own full episode.
Watch the live compilation on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy48y9NWX78
More stories and first looks at new seasons: gildenmyth.com11 hr 1 min - Etana and the Eagle: The Full Surviving Story of a Forgotten Sumerian Myth | 3 Hour Sleep Story
The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it.
Subscribing on YouTube helps the show grow, even if you only listen here: youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac
The Sleeping Almanac is also a shelf of books, bedtime stories to read and mythology coloring books: gildenmyth.com/books
Etana is the oldest story of human flight, and hardly anybody has heard of it. A king of Kish has everything except the one ordinary thing he wants, and to get it he must go up. Tonight is the eagle and the serpent and the broken oath in the tree, the pit, the long climb, the earth going small below, and the most restful passage in this whole season: a man looking down at his own country until it is the size of a bread basket, and then smaller, and then gone. A slow, calm 3 hour sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep.Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. You do not have to follow it. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning.These are retellings drawn from the real tablets and the real history. Where the old stories turn toward fear or cruelty, we turn gently toward comfort, choosing the telling that serves a calm night. Where scholars disagree, the disagreement is said out loud rather than smoothed over.Season Five of The Sleeping Almanac: Mesopotamia. Twelve nights.CHAPTERS0:00 Welcome5:05 The Shepherd of Kish11:22 No Child19:27 The Tree With Two Houses23:42 The Broken Oath28:02 The Dead Ox32:03 The Pit37:18 Eight Months40:25 Up45:00 The World Grown Small50:37 The Fall54:38 What the Seals Remember1:03:11 Goodnight Over Kish1:07:28 Calm music to drift offMore to listen to and read:Gildenmyth (all our stories and books): https://gildenmyth.comMortgages in plain language, Inside The Home Loan: https://insidethehomeloan.com🎧 The Sleeping Almanac is now a podcast.Follow so the next story finds you:Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sleeping-almanac/id1896899316Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033vbQDixCCfxEWvl1XFJQOr wherever you listen: https://podcast.thesleepingalmanac.comThis channel uses AI tools (script research, narration, visuals) under the direction of a human editor. Every episode is researched, reviewed, and revised before publication.New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday at 6pm ET.#etana #sleepstory #mesopotamia #sumerian #bedtimestoriesforadults #deepsleep #sleep #insomnia #calm #mythology3 hr 1 min - Norse Mythology Sleep Stories · 11 Hour Compilation Part 1 · The Nine Worlds to Ragnarok
The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it.
Subscribing on YouTube helps the show grow, even if you only listen here: youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac
The Sleeping Almanac is also a shelf of books, bedtime stories to read and mythology coloring books: gildenmyth.com/books
A bonus for the long nights: six Norse Mythology sleep stories from this feed in one long episode, told back to back with short pauses between them, then a long stretch of quiet music so it keeps playing through the night. It is the same compilation that aired live on our YouTube channel.
In this episode:
0:00:00 The Nine Worlds
1:50:03 Odin's Search for Wisdom
3:46:57 Mjolnir, the Hammer of Thor
5:49:17 Idunn's Apples
7:45:31 The Death of Baldr
9:48:08 Ragnarok
11:12:46 Ambience, the long nightEvery story here is also in the feed as its own full episode.
Watch the live compilation on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPCZNu0t5Nc
More stories and first looks at new seasons: gildenmyth.com11 hr 43 min - The Epic of Gilgamesh Part 3: The Full Story of the Flood and the Plant | 3 Hour Sleep Story
The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it.
Subscribing on YouTube helps the show grow, even if you only listen here: youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac
The Sleeping Almanac is also a shelf of books, bedtime stories to read and mythology coloring books: gildenmyth.com/books
The Epic of Gilgamesh, night three, and it is the kind one. A king walks out of his own city in a lion skin looking for the one man who never died. Tonight is the mountain with the twin peaks, the woman with the beer house at the edge of the world, the ferryman and the punting poles, the flood told by the man who survived it, the test with the loaves, the plant at the bottom of the sea, and the ending that has been quietly changing people's minds for four thousand years. A slow, calm 3 hour sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep.Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. You do not have to follow it. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning.These are retellings drawn from the real tablets and the real history. Where the old stories turn toward fear or cruelty, we turn gently toward comfort, choosing the telling that serves a calm night. Where scholars disagree, the disagreement is said out loud rather than smoothed over.Season Five of The Sleeping Almanac: Mesopotamia. Twelve nights.CHAPTERS0:00 Welcome5:20 The Lion Skin9:02 The Mountain With a Gate In It13:07 Twelve Hours of Dark17:30 The Garden of Stones23:47 The Woman With the Tavern28:54 What She Told Him33:29 The Waters of Death36:59 The Man Who Did Not Die41:44 The Flood, in His Own Words50:33 Seven Loaves55:36 The Plant, and the Snake1:00:09 The Wall1:11:54 Calm music to drift offMore to listen to and read:Gildenmyth (all our stories and books): https://gildenmyth.comMortgages in plain language, Inside The Home Loan: https://insidethehomeloan.com🎧 The Sleeping Almanac is now a podcast.Follow so the next story finds you:Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sleeping-almanac/id1896899316Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033vbQDixCCfxEWvl1XFJQOr wherever you listen: https://podcast.thesleepingalmanac.comThis channel uses AI tools (script research, narration, visuals) under the direction of a human editor. Every episode is researched, reviewed, and revised before publication.New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday at 6pm ET.#gilgamesh #sleepstory #mesopotamia #epicofgilgamesh #bedtimestoriesforadults #deepsleep #sleep #insomnia #calm #mythology3 hr 1 min - The Epic of Gilgamesh Part 2: The Full Story of the Bull of Heaven | 3 Hour Sleep Story
The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it.
Subscribing on YouTube helps the show grow, even if you only listen here: youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac
The Sleeping Almanac is also a shelf of books, bedtime stories to read and mythology coloring books: gildenmyth.com/books
The Epic of Gilgamesh, night two, and this is the hard one. A goddess makes an offer and is refused. The Bull of Heaven comes down on Uruk and opens a fissure in the plain. The gods hold a council and somebody has to answer for it. And then a man sits beside a bed for six days and seven nights and will not let his friend go, until the seventh day, when he understands. A slow, calm 3 hour sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep.Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. You do not have to follow it. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning.These are retellings drawn from the real tablets and the real history. Where the old stories turn toward fear or cruelty, we turn gently toward comfort, choosing the telling that serves a calm night. Where scholars disagree, the disagreement is said out loud rather than smoothed over.Season Five of The Sleeping Almanac: Mesopotamia. Twelve nights.CHAPTERS0:00 Welcome5:07 The Bath12:02 The Offer17:50 The List26:28 The Bull30:20 The Killing of the Bull33:20 The Haunch37:24 The Council41:58 The Door45:19 The Curse and the Blessing50:45 The House of Dust58:36 Six Days and Seven Nights1:06:06 The Statue, and the City Without Him1:18:42 Calm music to drift offMore to listen to and read:Gildenmyth (all our stories and books): https://gildenmyth.comMortgages in plain language, Inside The Home Loan: https://insidethehomeloan.com🎧 The Sleeping Almanac is now a podcast.Follow so the next story finds you:Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sleeping-almanac/id1896899316Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033vbQDixCCfxEWvl1XFJQOr wherever you listen: https://podcast.thesleepingalmanac.comThis channel uses AI tools (script research, narration, visuals) under the direction of a human editor. Every episode is researched, reviewed, and revised before publication.New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday at 6pm ET.#gilgamesh #sleepstory #mesopotamia #epicofgilgamesh #bedtimestoriesforadults #deepsleep #sleep #insomnia #calm #mythology3 hr 1 min - Chinese Myth Music · 3 Hour Sleep Music · Silver Moon Ambience for Deep Sleep
Subscribing on YouTube helps the show grow, even if you only listen here: youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac
The Sleeping Almanac is also a shelf of books, bedtime stories to read and mythology coloring books: gildenmyth.com/books
Three hours of calm music from the world of Chinese myth, made to help you fall asleep and stay asleep through the whole night. A bonus for the quiet nights, the same music playing tonight on our live sleep stream, three hours with no talking at all.
The music is original to the show, made with AI music tools and mixed for sleep: no melody that swells, no percussion, nothing sudden.
If it helps you sleep, follow the show so each new story and each new night of music arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it.
Watch the live on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8rpznmJnkY
More stories and first looks at new seasons: gildenmyth.com3 hr - The Epic of Gilgamesh Part 1: The Full Story of the Cedar Forest | 3 Hour Sleep Story
The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it.
Subscribing on YouTube helps the show grow, even if you only listen here: youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac
The Sleeping Almanac is also a shelf of books, bedtime stories to read and mythology coloring books: gildenmyth.com/books
The Epic of Gilgamesh is the story everybody has heard of and almost nobody has actually read, and it is three thousand lines long, so we are taking three nights over it. Tonight is the first: the wall of Uruk, a king who was too much for his own city, a wild man made out of clay and raised by gazelles, a wrestling match in a doorway that turns into the deepest friendship in ancient literature, and the long road to the cedar forest and the guardian who lived in it. A slow, calm 3 hour sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep.Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. You do not have to follow it. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning.These are retellings drawn from the real tablets and the real history. Where the old stories turn toward fear or cruelty, we turn gently toward comfort, choosing the telling that serves a calm night. Where scholars disagree, the disagreement is said out loud rather than smoothed over.Season Five of The Sleeping Almanac: Mesopotamia. Twelve nights.CHAPTERS0:00 Welcome4:53 The Wall9:28 The King Who Was Too Much13:59 The One Made Out of Clay20:06 The Trapper and the Woman25:40 Bread and Beer30:25 The Wrestling in the Doorway35:53 The Plan, and Everyone Who Said No41:24 The Road47:53 The Forest That Was Not Silent53:02 The Seven Terrors, and the Killing59:37 What Enlil Did With the Radiance1:06:01 The River of Timber1:11:42 Calm music to drift offMore to listen to and read:Gildenmyth (all our stories and books): https://gildenmyth.comMortgages in plain language, Inside The Home Loan: https://insidethehomeloan.com🎧 The Sleeping Almanac is now a podcast.Follow so the next story finds you:Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sleeping-almanac/id1896899316Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033vbQDixCCfxEWvl1XFJQOr wherever you listen: https://podcast.thesleepingalmanac.comThis channel uses AI tools (script research, narration, visuals) under the direction of a human editor. Every episode is researched, reviewed, and revised before publication.New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday at 6pm ET.#gilgamesh #sleepstory #mesopotamia #epicofgilgamesh #bedtimestoriesforadults #deepsleep #sleep #insomnia #calm #mythology3 hr 1 min - Fairy Tale Sleep Stories · 11 Hour Compilation Part 2 · Sleeping Beauty to the Moon Princess Kaguya
The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it.
Subscribing on YouTube helps the show grow, even if you only listen here: youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac
The Sleeping Almanac is also a shelf of books, bedtime stories to read and mythology coloring books: gildenmyth.com/books
A bonus for the long nights: six Fairy Tale sleep stories from this feed in one long episode, told back to back with short pauses between them, then a long stretch of quiet music so it keeps playing through the night. It is the same compilation that airs live on our YouTube channel tonight.
In this episode:
0:00:00 Sleeping Beauty
1:35:02 Robin Hood
3:06:36 The Ballad of Mulan
4:41:28 The Wizard of Oz
7:19:07 The Snow Queen
9:08:35 The Moon Princess Kaguya
11:01:03 Ambience, the long nightEvery story here is also in the feed as its own full episode.
Watch the live compilation on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4_eJWxBzyo
More stories and first looks at new seasons: gildenmyth.com11 hr 17 min - Enheduanna: The Full Story of the First Author Whose Name We Know | 3 Hour Sleep Story
The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it.
Subscribing on YouTube helps the show grow, even if you only listen here: youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac
The Sleeping Almanac is also a shelf of books, bedtime stories to read and mythology coloring books: gildenmyth.com/books
Enheduanna is the first author in human history whose name is attached to what she wrote. She was a real woman with a real job, high priestess of the moon god at Ur, daughter of Sargon of Akkad, and about four thousand three hundred years ago she signed her poems. Tonight is her life and her bad year: the forty two temple hymns, the rebel who drove her out of her own precinct, the poem she wrote from exile as a plea, and the schoolroom copies made centuries after her death that are the reason we can still read her at all. A slow, calm 3 hour sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep.Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. You do not have to follow it. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning.These are retellings drawn from the real tablets and the real history. Where the old stories turn toward fear or cruelty, we turn gently toward comfort, choosing the telling that serves a calm night. Where scholars disagree, the disagreement is said out loud rather than smoothed over.Season Five of The Sleeping Almanac: Mesopotamia. Twelve nights.CHAPTERS0:00 Welcome5:17 The Disk10:19 Sargon's Daughter16:20 The Moon House at Ur23:27 Forty Two Temples29:41 The Goddess Who Was Both34:04 The Mountain That Would Not Bow38:16 The Rebel42:32 Driven Out48:38 The Poem as a Plea57:30 The Return1:02:04 The Copies1:06:48 The Face on the Disk1:12:05 Calm music to drift offMore to listen to and read:Gildenmyth (all our stories and books): https://gildenmyth.comMortgages in plain language, Inside The Home Loan: https://insidethehomeloan.com🎧 The Sleeping Almanac is now a podcast.Follow so the next story finds you:Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sleeping-almanac/id1896899316Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033vbQDixCCfxEWvl1XFJQOr wherever you listen: https://podcast.thesleepingalmanac.comThis channel uses AI tools (script research, narration, visuals) under the direction of a human editor. Every episode is researched, reviewed, and revised before publication.New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday at 6pm ET.#enheduanna #sleepstory #mesopotamia #sumerian #bedtimestoriesforadults #deepsleep #sleep #insomnia #calm #history3 hr 1 min
About The Sleeping Almanac: Sleep Stories for Adults from Myth and Fairy Tale
From the publisher's feed
Three hour sleep stories for adults, from the fairy tales and myths you already know. Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, Sleeping Beauty, Robin Hood, Homer's Odyssey, and the old gods of the North and of Egypt, each retold in slow, calm narration made to be listened to as you fall asleep.
The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it.
Each episode is researched, written, and narrated to drift over you rather than demand your attention. The pacing is slow. The music never spikes. The goal is the opposite of keeping you awake.
Each season moves through a different story tradition: Norse mythology, Egyptian myth, the great fairy tales, the tales of 1001 Nights, Homer's Odyssey, the myths of ancient Mesopotamia, and the lost books of the Bible. New episodes every Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday night, every one of them three hours long.
The almanac is now a book. Norse Myths Retold for Sleep gathers twelve of the oldest stories, retold to be read in a low lamp until the page slips from your hand. On Kindle now, free with Kindle Unlimited: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2WLVPD
First looks at new seasons, by email: https://gildenmyth.com/#gm-subscribe
This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.