The Sleeping Almanac: Sleep Stories for Adults from Myth and Fairy Tale

The Sleeping Almanac · Sleep Stories from Myth and Fairy Tale
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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. 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.

  1. 16h ago

    Anunnaki · The Real Story the Tablets Tell · 3 Hour Sleep Story

    You have heard the word Anunnaki. Tonight we go all the way back to the clay the word was first pressed into. A slow, calm 3 hour Mesopotamian mythology sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. The oldest written stories on earth, told the way the tablets actually tell them: the gods who dug the rivers and went on strike, the making of people from clay and river water, a world so loud the gods could not sleep, a flood told plainly and resolved gently, the sages who came out of the sea, and a list of kings who reigned for impossible thousands of years, with the small quiet true thing that explains those numbers waiting in the tenth chapter. 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 · The Lamp Is Lit 7:23 The Tablet House 17:45 Before Anyone Was Made 24:07 The Ones Who Carried the Baskets 28:32 The Night They Burned Their Tools 33:50 The God Who Had Intelligence 40:32 The Noise of a Full World 44:57 The Voice in the Reed Wall 49:50 Seven Days and Seven Nights 56:26 The Sages Who Came Out of the Water 1:07:58 The Kings Who Reigned in Thousands 1:17:01 What the Tablets Were For 1:26:00 Goodnight. And the Lamp in the Tablet House 1:30:43 Calm music to drift off Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W1xB4hEvgA 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.

  2. 1d ago

    The Odyssey · The Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis · 3 Hour Sleep Story

    Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight the ship must pass the three great dangers of the middle sea. First the meadow of the singing women, the Sirens, whose song no sailor is meant to survive. Then the narrow water between the cave and the whirlpool, Scylla and Charybdis, where the strait itself takes its toll. And last the green island of the sun and its forbidden cattle, and the storm that answers a broken oath. A grave and gentle telling for sleep, every danger named softly and never shown, 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. CHAPTERS0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire4:45 Chapter One: The Shore Lore of the Goddess14:14 Chapter Two: The Wind She Sent23:01 Chapter Three: The Meadow of the Singers33:56 Chapter Four: The Choice of Roads43:25 Chapter Five: The Toll of the Strait51:47 Chapter Six: The Green Island of the Sun1:01:59 Chapter Seven: The Second Becalming1:11:57 Chapter Eight: The Hunger That Broke the Oath1:21:28 Chapter Nine: The Sea Keeps Its Word1:30:18 Chapter Ten: The Grip on the Fig Tree1:36:35 Chapter Eleven: Nine Days on the Kind Current1:42:39 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight and the Softest Shore the Sea Owned Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/xnPpfnBDTnENew 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.

    The Odyssey · The Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis · 3 Hour Sleep Story

  3. 5d ago

    The Odyssey · The Night of Old Friends · 3 Hour Sleep Story

    Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight the travelers sail to the quiet edge of the world, where the living may speak once more with the friends they have lost. A blind prophet gives the way home, a mother is met again, and the great names of the old war come softly out of the mist to talk a while by a small fire. A tender, grave 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. CHAPTERS0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire4:28 Chapter One: The Reminder at the Fire11:02 Chapter Two: The Young Man Who Missed the Sailing18:00 Chapter Three: The Edge of the World24:15 Chapter Four: The First Asking30:20 Chapter Five: The Old Man with the Golden Staff39:38 Chapter Six: His Mother's Face47:13 Chapter Seven: The Counting of the Queens54:47 Chapter Eight: The King Who Came Home to the Dark1:03:28 Chapter Nine: The Gladdest Ghost1:11:12 Chapter Ten: The Silence in the Meadow1:16:23 Chapter Eleven: The Far Figures1:23:48 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight and the Promise Kept at Morning Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/x4UEGwuLzvsNew 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.

    The Odyssey · The Night of Old Friends · 3 Hour Sleep Story

  4. 6d ago

    The Odyssey · The Almost Home · 3 Hour Sleep Story

    Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight the wind king gives a gift no one should open, home comes so close the watch fires can be seen, and a gentle enchantress on a green island keeps the weary travelers a whole slow year. This is the tale of the bag of winds and the house of Circe told 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. CHAPTERS0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire4:30 Chapter One: The Floating Island11:15 Chapter Two: The Gift of the Tied Winds17:16 Chapter Three: Nine Days Awake at the Steering Oar23:35 Chapter Four: The Opening of the Bag29:23 Chapter Five: The Closed Door34:43 Chapter Six: The Harbor of the Giants43:39 Chapter Seven: The Island of the Low Smoke50:00 Chapter Eight: The House of the Singing Witch59:46 Chapter Nine: The Flower with the Black Root1:07:21 Chapter Ten: The Wand That Failed1:21:04 Chapter Eleven: The Year of Rest1:28:44 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight and the Year of Rest Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/1eHamdubluUNew 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.

    The Odyssey · The Almost Home · 3 Hour Sleep Story

  5. Sep 3

    The Odyssey · Nobody and the Giant · 3 Hour Sleep Story

    Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight the ships come to the island of the one eyed giant, and a clever captain saves his men with a cup of dark wine and a single word for a name. This is the tale of the Cyclops told gently for sleep, the guest law and the giant who broke it, the name that was No One, and the quiet escape under the warm wool of the rams at morning. 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. CHAPTERS0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire4:43 Chapter One: The First Shore11:38 Chapter Two: The Priest's Wine15:40 Chapter Three: Nine Days of the Wrong Wind20:24 Chapter Four: The Honey Sweet Country26:21 Chapter Five: The Island of the Shepherd Giants37:22 Chapter Six: The Question of the Guest Law46:51 Chapter Seven: The Host Who Ate the Guest Law53:37 Chapter Eight: The Name That Was No One1:02:55 Chapter Nine: The Price of the Door1:08:45 Chapter Ten: Under the Rams at Morning1:18:46 Chapter Eleven: The Shout Across the Water1:29:19 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight and the Wake in the Dark Water Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/dblcjNoUJkgNew 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.

    The Odyssey · Nobody and the Giant · 3 Hour Sleep Story

  6. Sep 1

    The Odyssey · The City Taken by a Story · 3 Hour Sleep Story

    Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight the story is the oldest trick ever told. Ten long years the war for Troy would not end, until one restless mind thought of a horse of wood and a city that opened its own gates. This is the fall of Troy told gently, from the singer at the fire to the ships turning at last for home, 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. CHAPTERS0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire4:43 Chapter One: The Song This Fire Will Not Steal9:33 Chapter Two: The Ten Years Told as Weather17:51 Chapter Three: The Mind the War Leaned On24:56 Chapter Four: The Beggar Inside the Walls34:24 Chapter Five: The Falling of the Brightest Star44:01 Chapter Six: The Armor and the Silence49:48 Chapter Seven: The Boy from Skyros58:30 Chapter Eight: The Archer and the Old Bow1:05:51 Chapter Nine: The Idea of the Horse1:17:13 Chapter Ten: The Night of Held Breath1:35:55 Chapter Eleven: The Ships Turn Home1:46:40 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight and the Ships Turning Home Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/jXJmzh-NceoNew 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.

    The Odyssey · The City Taken by a Story · 3 Hour Sleep Story

  7. Aug 30

    The Odyssey · The Wrong Shore · 3 Hour Sleep Story

    Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight we open Season Four, the Odyssey, at the very beginning of the road to Troy. Long before the wooden horse, before the ten long years, a thousand ships put out to sea for the first time and made land on the wrong shore. This is the story of the false start, the wounded king, and the strange oracle that said the one who dealt the wound was the only one who could heal it. A slow, gentle 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. CHAPTERS0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire4:44 Chapter One: The Morning After the Dawn12:34 Chapter Two: The Sea Without Signposts19:15 Chapter Three: The Landfall That Lied25:15 Chapter Four: The King of the Wrong Country35:04 Chapter Five: The Spear and the Wound42:09 Chapter Six: The Scattering48:36 Chapter Seven: The Years Between55:53 Chapter Eight: The Wound That Would Not Close1:03:45 Chapter Nine: The Beggar at the Door of the Kings1:15:07 Chapter Ten: The Rust of the Spear1:24:18 Chapter Eleven: The Guide Who Knew the Water1:34:07 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight and the Road Found at Last Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/gAJ0kDVRpL8New 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.

    The Odyssey · The Wrong Shore · 3 Hour Sleep Story

  8. Aug 29

    The Moon Princess Kaguya · The Original Tale · 3 Hour Full Moon Sleep Story to Fall Asleep

    A slow, calm 3 hour sleep story for the night of the full moon, to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight the storyteller reaches the last page of the old book, and she has saved it for this exact night: The Moon Princess, from The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, the tenth century Japanese story sometimes called the oldest fairy tale of all. An old bamboo cutter finds a stalk glowing in his grove, and inside it a princess small enough to rest in his two hands. She grows into a lady so gentle that five grand suitors are set five impossible tasks and refused without one unkind word, an emperor becomes her friend by letter, and when the moon at last sends its shining procession down for her, she leaves behind a letter and a gift, carried to the summit of the highest mountain in Japan. Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. There is a farewell in it, but it is the gentlest farewell in any storybook, told with far more moonlight than sorrow. There is nothing here to fear. You do not have to watch. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning. Episode 12 of 12 · The Storybook Season Where this sits: Part 12 of 12 in The Storybook Season, one storyteller, one lantern, and one complete famous tale each night, each told from its original source. Tonight, the princess the moon calls home, told on the night of the full moon, the last tale of the season. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin. Chapters:0:00 Welcome3:25 The Grove of Green Light12:51 The Smallest Princess in the World22:57 The Five Suitors33:35 The Stone Bowl of the Buddha40:38 The Jeweled Branch of Horai51:45 The Robe of the Fire Rat59:10 The Jewel in the Dragon's Neck1:06:56 The Swallow's Shell1:16:22 The Emperor's Letters1:24:31 The Fifteenth Night of the Eighth Month1:38:04 The Smoke of the Mountain1:45:16 Goodnight. And the Lamp at the Edge of Morning Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanacNew episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday. 🕯 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.

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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. 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.

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