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 Two hundred watchmen came down a mountain and would not go back. Tonight, the Book of Enoch tells what was decided about them, and how, and it is not a war in heaven. It is a sentence, carried down by four messengers with four instructions: a word in Noah's ear before anything else, the one who taught the making of knives put under rough stones in a hole in the desert, the giants turned on each other, and their leader bound under the hills for seventy generations. And then, because this is the Book of Enoch, a journey. The man who carried the answer is taken by the hand and walked to the ends of the earth and shown where the winds are kept, the fire in the west that receives every setting of the sun, the mouths of all the rivers, seven mountains of pearl and jacinth and alabaster with a summit of sapphire, the empty place where the stars that came up late are kept, the mountain in the west with four hollows for the dead, one bright with a spring, a tree like no other on the hill where the throne will be, with fruit like the dates of a palm, and, at the far edge of the east, the garden, still there, with the tree that the book says the first man and woman ate from. A three hour sleep story, the first night of Season Six, The Lost Books. Read slowly, in a low voice, beside a lamp in a round highland church in Ethiopia in the rain, by a copyist who is ruling the last leaf of the copy he began in our two Lost Books specials. Retold from the text, chapter by chapter, with source claims checked against primary texts and scholarship. The copyist and his room are an imagined frame. The Book of Enoch is scripture in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. An authentic book is not the same as a true event, and this one is told as what it is: a real book, read the way it was read. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome 6:25 The Last Gathering 11:10 What Was Decided 17:27 Seventy Generations 24:05 The Plant 30:19 The Voice by the River, Again 38:06 The Ends of the Earth 44:58 The Stars That Were Late 51:32 The Hollow Places 58:26 The Tree Like No Other 1:06:25 The Garden in the East 1:14:12 The Gates of the Winds 1:23:55 Goodnight. And the Ruled Leaf 1:30:30 Calm music to drift off The Sleeping Almanac retells the world's oldest myths and stories as three hour sleep stories for adults. Calm narration, a slow music bed, no sudden sounds, no mid roll ads. New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday night. Season Six, The Lost Books, runs twelve nights from October 25: the people of the caves, the child who lit the room, the calendar that split a people, the angel and the heavenly tablets, the book only Ethiopia kept, Eden from the other side, the gospel with no story, the books the ground gave back, the tower built of souls, the Christmas story the Bible left out, and why they were left out. If this helps you rest, subscribing helps more than you know. More to listen to and read Gildenmyth, all our stories and books: https://gildenmyth.com Inside The Home Loan, our sister podcast: https://insidethehomeloan.com The Sleeping Almanac is also a free podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sleeping-almanac/id1896899316 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033vbQDixCCfxEWvl1XFJQ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/17ca51a7-c6fc-4d27-a66a-c5a2449220a6 Or wherever you listen: https://podcast.thesleepingalmanac.com #bookofenoch #enoch #watchers #nephilim #lostbooks #sleepstory #bedtimestory #sleepstoriesforadults #fallasleepfast #insomnia #apocrypha #ethiopianorthodox #deadseascrolls #history #mythology #thelostbooks
