The Sleeping Almanac

The Sleeping Almanac · Norse Mythology Sleep Stories
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The Sleeping Almanac retells the world's oldest stories, myths, lost civilizations, and forgotten cosmologies, in slow, calm narration designed 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. Season 1 is Norse mythology, told across a single season long arc from the nine worlds to Ragnarǫk. New episodes every Wednesday and Sunday. 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 This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

  1. Egyptian Mythology Sleep Story · The Eye of Ra (Episode 3)

    1d ago

    Egyptian Mythology Sleep Story · The Eye of Ra (Episode 3)

    A slow, calm Egyptian mythology sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight, the tale of the Eye of Ra, the lioness Sekhmet whose fury was calmed at last not by force but by a field flooded the color of dawn. This is a bedtime story for adults, made for sleep, insomnia, and quiet nights when the mind will not switch off. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. You do not have to follow it. Just let it drift over you. Episode 3 of 12 · Egyptian Mythology · The Sleeping Almanac. Chapters 0:00 Welcome 4:00 The Aging of the Sun 15:11 The Whispering of Mankind 24:18 The Council in the Night 33:58 The Eye Becomes the Lioness 43:44 The Going Forth 52:56 The Sun Repents 1:01:34 The Brewing in the Night 1:11:25 Seven Thousand Jars 1:21:45 The Lioness at Dawn 1:31:20 The Calming 1:39:00 Hathor Returns 1:48:02 Goodnight. And the Serpent at the Edge of Dawn 1:53:30 Calm music to drift off Drawn from one of the great Egyptian temple texts, the Book of the Heavenly Cow, carved on the walls of the tombs of the New Kingdom pharaohs. New episodes every Wednesday and Sunday. Everything in one place: https://thesleepingalmanac.com This show 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
  2. Egyptian Mythology Sleep Story · The Secret Name of Ra (Episode 2)

    3d ago

    Egyptian Mythology Sleep Story · The Secret Name of Ra (Episode 2)

    A slow, calm Egyptian mythology sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight, the patient tale of how the goddess Isis won the secret name of Ra, the one hidden word that held all his power. This is a bedtime story for adults, made for sleep, insomnia, and quiet nights when the mind will not switch off. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. You do not have to follow it. Just let it drift over you. Episode 2 of 12 · Egyptian Mythology · The Sleeping Almanac. 00:00 Welcome07:07 The Age When the Gods Walked the Earth18:21 The God Who Had Grown Old26:39 Isis, the Great of Magic36:52 The Secret Name47:44 The Drop That Fell55:43 The Shaping of the Serpent1:06:04 The Turning of the Road1:15:13 None Could Heal Him1:25:06 The Healer's Price1:33:40 The Naming of Names1:40:25 The Name Passes1:49:44 Goodnight. And the Serpent at the Edge of Dawn1:56:44 Calm music to drift off Drawn from an ancient Egyptian papyrus now kept in Turin, where this very tale was written down as a healing spell more than three thousand years ago. New episodes every Wednesday and Sunday. Everything in one place: https://thesleepingalmanac.com This show 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
  3. Egyptian Mythology Sleep Story · Ra and the First Sunrise (Episode 1)

    5d ago

    Egyptian Mythology Sleep Story · Ra and the First Sunrise (Episode 1)

    A slow, calm Egyptian mythology sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight, the gentle tale of Ra and the very first sunrise, from the dark still waters before the world began. This is a bedtime story for adults, made for sleep, insomnia, and quiet nights when the mind will not switch off. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. You do not have to follow it. Just let it drift over you. Episode 1 of 12 · Egyptian Mythology · The Sleeping Almanac. Chapters 0:00 Welcome 4:29 The Waters That Had No Shore 14:14 The First Mound 24:36 The One Who Made Himself 34:22 The First Breath and the First Rain 44:01 The Lost Children and the Weeping Eye 52:35 Earth and Sky 1:02:36 The Sun Takes Its Throne 1:13:05 The Boat of Millions of Years 1:20:44 The Three Faces of the Sun 1:29:08 The Measuring of the Day 1:37:46 The Descent 1:47:30 Goodnight. And the Serpent at the Edge of Dawn 1:52:11 Calm music to drift off Drawn from the oldest Egyptian sources, the Pyramid Texts and the Heliopolitan creation tradition. New episodes every Wednesday and Sunday. Everything in one place: https://thesleepingalmanac.com This show 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
  4. Ragnarok · The Twilight of the Gods · Season 1 Finale

    Jul 2

    Ragnarok · The Twilight of the Gods · Season 1 Finale

    Tonight, on the very last night of the old world, you walk with the gods toward their own ending. The wolf slips his chain. The serpent rises from the sea. The horn sounds. The fire comes. And then, very softly, a green earth at dawn, and a few gold chess pieces lying in the new grass. This is the season finale of The Sleeping Almanac — twelve nights inside Norse myth, ending exactly where the seers said it would end. And then, gently, beginning again. Settle in. Lower the lights. Goodnight. CHAPTERS00:00 Welcome01:35 Chapter I: The Fimbulvetr08:22 Chapter II: Brother Will Kill Brother14:09 Chapter III: The Wolf Slips the Chain20:42 Chapter IV: The Serpent Stirs27:12 Chapter V: The Ship of Nails34:07 Chapter VI: The Horn40:58 Chapter VII: The Gods Arm49:04 Chapter VIII: Odin and the Wolf55:42 Chapter IX: Thor and the Serpent1:03:58 Chapter X: The World Burns and Drowns1:10:41 Chapter XI: The Green Earth1:19:15 Chapter XII: Goodnight. And the Wolf at the Edge of Time EVERYTHING IN ONE PLACEhttps://thesleepingalmanac.com Sources tonight from Vǫluspá and Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda. Goodnight, dear listener. Goodnight.

    3 hr
  5. Skadi · The Cold Mountain Bride

    Jun 30

    Skadi · The Cold Mountain Bride

    Tonight, a giantess walks down out of the cold mountains to demand the gods make right what they have broken. She comes alone. She comes armed. And she will not leave until she has chosen a husband by his feet. This is the story of Skadi, the goddess of winter, of skis, of bows, of the high cold country. The story of her father killed by the gods. The story of her quiet impossible bargain. The story of a marriage that did not work, and a goddess who walked herself home. Settle in. Lower the lights. Goodnight. CHAPTERS00:00 Welcome01:56 Chapter I: The Hall of Þjazi07:49 Chapter II: The Winter March11:22 Chapter III: The Goddess at the Gate14:39 Chapter IV: The Three Demands19:27 Chapter V: The Row of Feet23:27 Chapter VI: Loki and the Sky29:18 Chapter VII: The Nine Nights at Þrymheimr39:26 Chapter VIII: The Nine Nights at Nóatún49:14 Chapter IX: The Slow Parting57:59 Chapter X: The Long Walk Back1:05:03 Chapter XI: The Goddess in the Mountains1:12:58 Chapter XII: Goodnight. And the Wolf at the Edge of Time EVERYTHING IN ONE PLACEhttps://thesleepingalmanac.com Sources tonight from Skáldskaparmál, Gylfaginning, and Lokasenna. Goodnight, dear listener. Goodnight.

    3 hr
  6. Odin · The Mead of Poetry

    Jun 28

    Odin · The Mead of Poetry

    Tonight: how poetry came into the worlds. Of Kvasir, the wisest being ever made, brewed from the breath of every god in Asgard. Of his murder by two clever dwarves who poured his blood into three vessels and hid them. Of Suttungr the giant, who took the vessels into a hollow mountain and set his daughter Gunnlǫð to guard them. And of Odin, who walked east in disguise as Bǫlverkr the worker, drilled into the mountain in the shape of a snake, drank the mead in three long draughts, and flew home as an eagle to give poetry to the gods and to men. A 3 hour sleep story for adults, drawn from Snorri's Prose Edda and the Hávamál. Old north narration, calm pacing, ambient music. Made to drift into, not to follow. · Chapters · 00:00 Welcome01:44 Chapter I: The Spit in the Jar10:41 Chapter II: The Wisest Being in the Worlds15:22 Chapter III: The Dwarves at the Door23:53 Chapter IV: The Drowning of Gilling29:11 Chapter V: The Brother's Revenge37:45 Chapter VI: The Mead in the Mountain45:29 Chapter VII: Bǫlverkr at the Farm55:44 Chapter VIII: The Summer of Nine Men's Work1:05:47 Chapter IX: The Drill in the Stone1:11:23 Chapter X: The Snake in the Mountain1:16:16 Chapter XI: The Three Nights1:31:01 Chapter XII: Goodnight. And the Wolf at the Edge of Time. · About The Sleeping Almanac · 3 hour sleep stories drawn from the world's old mythologies. New episodes every Wednesday and Sunday. Everything in one place: thesleepingalmanac.com · Disclosure · This story is narrated with a voice clone of the host, scored with AI generated ambient music, and illustrated with AI generated still images. The script is written by hand from the source texts.

    1h 38m
  7. The Giant's Bride · Thor and the Theft of Mjǫllnir · 3 Hour Norse Sleep Story

    Jun 25

    The Giant's Bride · Thor and the Theft of Mjǫllnir · 3 Hour Norse Sleep Story

    Tonight, the strongest of the gods wakes to an empty bed and an empty hand. Mjǫllnir, the hammer that holds the sky together, has been stolen in the night. Loki borrows Freyja's falcon cloak and flies east to Jǫtunheimr, where the giant king Þrymr is waiting on his high mound with a price for its return. The price is Freyja herself. Freyja refuses, the gods sit in council, and the only road forward is the one no one wants to take. Þórr is dressed in fine wheat linen and a bridal veil, Loki agrees to come as the handmaid, and the two of them ride east to a wedding feast in the cold hall of the giants. A bride who eats an entire ox. A quick tongue that has an answer for every strange thing. A veil that lifts just long enough for two burning eyes to be seen. And then the hammer brought out at last to bless the marriage, laid in the bride's lap, and the hand that closes around the haft. Let it carry you down into sleep. Chapters:0:00 Welcome1:25 Chapter 1. The Empty Pillow10:10 Chapter 2. The Borrowed Wings17:15 Chapter 3. The Hall of Þrymr25:40 Chapter 4. The Demand31:41 Chapter 5. The Refusal38:25 Chapter 6. The Counsel of the Gods52:41 Chapter 7. The Bridal Veil1:02:11 Chapter 8. The Road East1:09:31 Chapter 9. The Wedding Feast1:17:04 Chapter 10. The Eye Beneath the Veil1:27:20 Chapter 11. The Hammer on the Knee1:40:14 Chapter 12. Goodnight. And the Wolf at the Edge of Time.1:50:22 Music to sleep by Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanacEverything in one place: https://thesleepingalmanac.comNew episodes every Wednesday and Sunday. Sources: the Þrymskviða from the Poetic Edda (Codex Regius, 13th century Iceland), with chapter framing and Hávamál anchors drawn from the same manuscript tradition. Retold as an original written narrative. This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

    3 hr
  8. Thor and the World Serpent · Norse Mythology Sleep Story · 3 Hours

    Jun 22

    Thor and the World Serpent · Norse Mythology Sleep Story · 3 Hours

    Tonight, the strongest of the gods goes fishing for the end of the world. Þórr travels east to a giant's hall for a cauldron large enough to brew the sea, and before dawn he rows a small boat out past every fishing bank a man has ever known, into the deep water where the Serpent waits. He baits a line with the head of an ox and lets it down, and far below, the thing that circles the world takes the hook. A slow, strange story of a god and a monster meeting eye to eye, and the small old hand that cut the line and gave the world a little more time. Let it carry you down into sleep. Chapters:0:00 Welcome3:09 Chapter 1. The Cauldron That Was Not There8:18 Chapter 2. The Journey East12:26 Chapter 3. The Grandmother and the Mother16:28 Chapter 4. The Return of Hymir20:41 Chapter 5. The Three Oxen27:48 Chapter 6. The Bait34:41 Chapter 7. The Rowing Out40:54 Chapter 8. The Whales45:04 Chapter 9. The Pull52:57 Chapter 10. The Eye1:05:02 Chapter 11. The Cut1:17:26 Chapter 12. Goodnight. And the Wolf at the Edge of Time.1:27:54 Music to sleep by Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanacNew episodes every Wednesday and Sunday. Sources: the Poetic Edda (Hymiskviða) and Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda (Gylfaginning), with the fishing scene preserved on the Altuna and Gosforth picture stones, retold in an original written narrative. This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

    3 hr
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The Sleeping Almanac retells the world's oldest stories, myths, lost civilizations, and forgotten cosmologies, in slow, calm narration designed 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. Season 1 is Norse mythology, told across a single season long arc from the nine worlds to Ragnarǫk. New episodes every Wednesday and Sunday. 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 This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

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