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By The Sleeping Almanac · Sleep Stories from Myth and Fairy TaleAlternative HealthHealth & FitnessFictionDrama
The Sleeping Almanac: Sleep Stories for Adults from Myth and Fairy Tale episodes
- 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.
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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 - Fairy Tale Sleep Stories · 11 Hour Compilation Part 1 · Scheherazade to Alice in Wonderland
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.
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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 aired live on our YouTube channel.
In this episode:
0:00:00 Scheherazade
1:41:53 Aladdin
3:17:39 The Little Mermaid
4:45:45 Cinderella
6:15:58 Peter Pan
8:31:39 Alice in Wonderland
11:17:16 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=k03CuJ9lykk
More stories and first looks at new seasons: gildenmyth.com11 hr 33 min - Enuma Elish: The Babylonian Creation Story | 3 Hour Sleep Story to 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.
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Enuma Elish is the Babylonian creation story, and it is not called that at all. Its name is simply the first two words on the first tablet, When above. Seven tablets, about a thousand lines, and a world made first out of water, then out of noise, then out of a quarrel, and at last out of the body of the oldest thing there was. Tonight you will hear how the sky was fastened up, where the Tigris and the Euphrates were said to come from, how a city put its own name on the making of everything, and why, once a year, the most powerful man in Babylon was slapped in the face by a priest until he cried. 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 Welcome7:07 When Above12:40 The First Births17:43 The Noise in the Water22:44 Apsu Sleeps Forever27:47 The Mother Arms34:06 The Court That Could Not Answer40:58 The Bargain of the Young God44:57 The Net, the Winds, the Bow49:19 The Battle, and the Quiet After55:18 What Was Made From Her1:01:08 The People and the City1:12:51 The Night the King Wept1:20:17 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.#enumaelish #sleepstory #mesopotamia #babylon #bedtimestoriesforadults #deepsleep #sleep #insomnia #calm #mythology3 hr 1 min - Odysseus and His Father Laertes · The Odyssey · Greek Mythology 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.
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Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight is the last night of the Odyssey, and it is the quietest one. A king who has just won back his own hall walks out of it at first light and goes up into the hills, because there is one person left who does not know he is alive. His father lives on a high farm now, in a labourer's patched tunic and gardener's gloves, working an orchard alone and refusing the comfort of the house, because grief made him small and the work is the only thing that answers. You will hear a son stand at the edge of a vineyard row and watch an old man dig, and try a stranger's story on him first, and watch it land like a stone. And then you will hear him give up the disguise and prove himself with the gentlest evidence in all of Homer. Not a scar. Not a bow. A list of trees. Thirteen pear, ten apple, forty fig, and the rows of vines a father once walked with a small boy at his heel and counted out loud as a gift, and the boy remembered every one of them for forty years. You will hear a house wake up around that. A bath, clean clothes, an old woman's cooking, three generations of one family sitting at a table at the same time for the first time in a lifetime. And out on the road the fathers of the dead come looking for the king with spears, and the anger of a whole island stands up at once, and it is ended not with a battle but with a voice out of the sky and a bolt in the dust and oaths of peace sworn on the spot. Then the days after. A story promised and finally told, an oar carried inland until someone calls it a winnowing fan, and a sail at the edge of morning. A calm, hopeful telling for sleep, calm enough to drift to and rich enough to stay awake for if you choose.
Close your eyes. Let the orchard go quiet. There is nothing to do now but listen and rest.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire
4:00 Chapter One: The Morning After Twenty Years
12:47 Chapter Two: The Walk Up Through the Autumn Island
19:34 Chapter Three: The Gardener King
27:47 Chapter Four: The Test He Could Not Finish
34:13 Chapter Five: The Proof of the Orchard
44:23 Chapter Six: The Bath and the Table
52:25 Chapter Seven: The Anger in the Town
1:01:36 Chapter Eight: The Voice That Ended It
1:11:38 Chapter Nine: The Oaths of Peace
1:15:58 Chapter Ten: The Days After
1:23:17 Chapter Eleven: The Story That Was Promised
1:29:22 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight. And the Sail at the Edge of MorningWatch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/HViw5KkaW-Y
New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.🎙️ Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com
📖 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com
🕊️ Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com
This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.
3 hr 1 min - Penelope, the Bow and the Olive Tree Bed · The Odyssey · Greek Mythology 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.
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Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight a great bow comes down off a wall where it has hung at rest through a whole long war, and the strongest young men in a kingdom warm it and grease it at the fire and cannot bend it, because strength was never the thing it was waiting for. A queen carries her husband's bow down the stairs in her own two arms and sets the terms of a contest she believes no one can win. A boy plants twelve iron axe heads in a straight trench down the hall floor, a game he has never once seen played, and his hands know it anyway. And a beggar in rags asks to try that bow, and turns it in his hands the way a singer turns a new lyre, and strings it without rising from his stool, and plucks it once, and one clear note answers like a swallow. You will see a single arrow fly clean through the sockets of all twelve axes without touching iron. You will see a house give a wandering king back his name, and then his hall, and then his wife, who makes him prove himself with a bed whose secret is a living olive tree for a leg, rooted in the island itself, that no man alive could move. The night is stern for a little while in its middle, told plainly and in a low voice and staged not at all, and it is brief, and it passes. On the far side of it there is a house swept clean, and two people knowing each other again after twenty years, and a night the grey eyed goddess made longer so they would have time enough. A calm, hopeful telling for sleep, calm enough to drift to and rich enough to stay awake for if you choose.
Close your eyes. Let the hall go quiet. There is nothing to do now but listen and rest.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire
4:40 Chapter One: The Morning of the Axes
12:17 Chapter Two: The Bow Comes Down
21:32 Chapter Three: The Contest of the Young Men
30:14 Chapter Four: The Two Herdsmen in the Yard
37:46 Chapter Five: The Beggar Asks for the Bow
44:27 Chapter Six: The Singer Strings the Bow
50:43 Chapter Seven: The Arrow Through the Twelve
56:52 Chapter Eight: The Reckoning
1:02:31 Chapter Nine: The House Made Clean
1:08:21 Chapter Ten: Come and See
1:14:33 Chapter Eleven: The Bed That Could Not Be Moved
1:25:00 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight. And the Night the Goddess Made LongerWatch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/1HRpIBQzS6E
New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.🎙️ Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com
📖 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com
🕊️ Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com
This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.
3 hr 1 min - Odysseus the Beggar and Argos the Dog · The Odyssey · Greek Mythology 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.
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The Sleeping Almanac is also a shelf of books, bedtime stories to read and mythology coloring books: gildenmyth.com/books
Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight a king walks into his own house as a beggar, and only a dog knows him. He comes down the goat track from the high farm in rags, past the spring where the road bends, and lets a rude man kick him without answering. At his own gate an old hound lifts his head, thumps his tail once in the dust, and lets go of a life he had only been holding on to for this. Inside, the great hall is loud with men eating another man's cattle, and the ragged stranger goes along the tables with his hands out and takes what they give him, insults and bread alike, while his own son watches and says nothing. Upstairs the queen sits at a loom she has been quietly unweaving by lamplight for three years. And in a quiet corner an old nurse kneels to wash a beggar's feet, finds a scar above his knee that she has known since he was a boy, and is hushed before she can cry out. A calm, hopeful telling of the return to the hall for sleep, calm enough to drift to and rich enough to stay awake for if you choose.
Close your eyes. Let the lamps in the hall burn down. There is nothing to do now but listen and rest.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire
4:34 Chapter One: The Road Down to the Town
10:30 Chapter Two: An Unkindness on the Road
16:02 Chapter Three: The Old Dog on the Warm Heap
26:20 Chapter Four: The Beggar at His Own Door
31:54 Chapter Five: The Thrown Stool
40:18 Chapter Six: The Queen Among the Wasters
48:05 Chapter Seven: The Web Told by the Weaver
56:01 Chapter Eight: The Cloak and the Brooch
1:04:52 Chapter Nine: The Basin and the Scar
1:14:24 Chapter Ten: The Dream of the Geese
1:21:30 Chapter Eleven: The House Going Quiet
1:25:59 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight. And the House Asleep Around Its SecretWatch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/wlBVOc8e4WI
New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.🎙️ Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com
📖 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com
🕊️ Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com
This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.
3 hr 1 min - Odysseus Home on Ithaca · The Odyssey · Greek Mythology 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.
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Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight the long way home ends on a beach at last, and nobody knows it yet. A man wakes in a mist so thick he does not recognise his own island, and believes for one aching moment that he has been cheated again. A young shepherd with grey eyes tells him where he is, and then tells him who she is, and laughs at him fondly for lying to her, because they are both of one craft. Then the king of Ithaca is made old and ragged and unrecognisable, and walks up to a pig farm on the high ground to sit at the fire of a servant who has never stopped believing he would come back. There is a supper of roast pork and dark wine. There is a tale told about a cold night at Troy and a borrowed cloak, invented on the spot to beg a blanket. There is rain drumming on a rough roof, and a son sailing home under the same rain, and one quiet room where a father finally says who he is. A calm, hopeful telling of the homecoming and the swineherd's hut for sleep, calm enough to drift to and rich enough to stay awake for if you choose.
Close your eyes. Let the fire in the hut burn low. There is nothing to do now but listen and rest.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire
4:34 Chapter One: The Waking Stranger
10:15 Chapter Two: The Shepherd with Grey Eyes
17:48 Chapter Three: We Are Both of One Craft
23:57 Chapter Four: The Cave and the Plan
32:36 Chapter Five: The Farm on the High Ground
40:20 Chapter Six: The Supper of the Swineherd
49:10 Chapter Seven: The Tale of the Cloak
56:02 Chapter Eight: The Story of the Swineherd
1:03:17 Chapter Nine: The Son on the Sea
1:09:26 Chapter Ten: I Am Your Father
1:18:26 Chapter Eleven: The Plan Laid in Low Voices
1:26:42 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight. And the Rain on the Swineherd's RoofWatch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/t3zpNlv2NjI
New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.🎙️ Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com
📖 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com
🕊️ Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com
This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.
3 hr 1 min - Nausicaa and the Phaeacians · The Odyssey · Greek Mythology 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.
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Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight the gentlest kingdom in all the old world, and the night a long story folds quietly in two. A girl goes down to a river at dawn to wash her father's linen, finds the sea's last castaway asleep in the leaves, and does not run. There is a garden that bears in every season at once, pear behind pear and fig behind fig, forever. There are ships that need no steersman and know the way by thought alone. And in a bright hall a blind singer sings a certain war so truly that a stranger weeps into his cloak, and is asked at last the one question he has not answered in twenty years. A calm, hopeful telling of Nausicaa and the Phaeacians for sleep, calm enough to drift to and rich enough to stay awake for if you choose.
Close your eyes. Let the fire on the beach burn low. There is nothing to do now but listen and rest.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire
4:30 Chapter One: The Wagon at Dawn
12:00 Chapter Two: The Stranger from the Leaves
20:18 Chapter Three: The Walk Behind the Mules
30:06 Chapter Four: The Garden That Bore in Every Season
39:05 Chapter Five: The Queen's Sharp Eye
49:03 Chapter Six: The Games and the Throw
1:00:28 Chapter Seven: The Blind Singer
1:08:47 Chapter Eight: The Song of the Horse
1:18:40 Chapter Nine: I Am Odysseus
1:27:47 Chapter Ten: The Gifts and the Farewell
1:35:09 Chapter Eleven: The Ship That Steered Itself
1:41:03 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight. And the Sleeper Carried HomeWatch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/p3kD1LVxzgg
New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.🎙️ Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com
📖 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com
🕊️ Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com
This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.
3 hr 1 min - Anunnaki · The Tablets That Slept Three Thousand Years · 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.
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The tablets that first wrote the Anunnaki slept under a hill for two and a half thousand years, and tonight is the story of how they came back. A slow, calm 3 hour sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. The fire that saved a library by baking its books, the grassy mound that kept them, a soldier copying an unreachable cliff, a quiet clerk who taught himself the oldest writing on earth at lunch, the broken tablet that held a flood, and a man in 1976 who read the same clay and told a very different story. Tonight both readings get their say, each in its own voice, and you can decide for yourself.
Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes.
Chapters
0:00 Welcome
6:54 The Same Lamp
11:32 The King Who Collected
19:22 The Night the City Burned
24:34 What Fire Does to Clay
29:25 Two and a Half Thousand Years
38:41 The Men With Shovels
45:16 The Cliff at Behistun
51:42 The Clerk Who Taught Himself
57:10 The Eleventh Tablet
1:05:47 The Man Who Read Them Differently
1:20:23 The Long Chain of Hands
1:27:04 Goodnight. And the Tablet in the Quiet Room
1:35:05 Calm music to drift offWatch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZUkf3KRjIg
Everything in one place: https://gildenmyth.com🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com
This channel uses AI tools (script research, narration, visuals) under the direction of a human editor. Every episode is researched, reviewed, and revised before publication.
3 hr 1 min - Odysseus Leaves Calypso on a Raft · The Odyssey · Greek Mythology 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.
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Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight the long stay on the island of Calypso ends, the gods in the high air decide the wanderer may go home at last, and he builds a raft with his own hands and sails alone by the stars. The sea has one more storm to send, and a kind goddess a veil to save him, before a gentle river carries him to rest on a bed of leaves under two olive trees. A calm, hopeful telling for sleep, calm enough to drift to and rich enough to stay awake for if you choose.
Close your eyes. Let the fire on the beach burn low. There is nothing to do now but listen and rest.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire
4:33 Chapter One: The Island Where Time Lay Down
12:45 Chapter Two: The Man at the Shore
21:32 Chapter Three: The Council in the High Air
27:55 Chapter Four: The God on the Wide Water
36:53 Chapter Five: The Choice Offered Once More
45:46 Chapter Six: The Axe and the Trees
54:44 Chapter Seven: The Stars on His Left Hand
1:04:03 Chapter Eight: The Sea Remembers
1:12:45 Chapter Nine: The River's Welcome
1:18:58 Chapter Ten: The Bed of Leaves
1:24:07 Chapter Eleven: The Dream Sent to a Princess
1:28:29 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight and the Bed of Leaves Under the Two OlivesWatch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/4pguhDajTH8
New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.🎙️ Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com
📖 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com
🕊️ Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com
This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.
3 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.