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

    The Odyssey · The Beggar in His Own Hall · 3 Hour Sleep Story

    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. CHAPTERS0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire4:34 Chapter One: The Road Down to the Town10:30 Chapter Two: An Unkindness on the Road16:02 Chapter Three: The Old Dog on the Warm Heap26:20 Chapter Four: The Beggar at His Own Door31:54 Chapter Five: The Thrown Stool40:18 Chapter Six: The Queen Among the Wasters48:05 Chapter Seven: The Web Told by the Weaver56:01 Chapter Eight: The Cloak and the Brooch1:04:52 Chapter Nine: The Basin and the Scar1:14:24 Chapter Ten: The Dream of the Geese1:21:30 Chapter Eleven: The House Going Quiet1:25:59 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight. And the House Asleep Around Its Secret Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/wlBVOc8e4WINew 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 Beggar in His Own Hall · 3 Hour Sleep Story

  2. 2d ago

    The Odyssey · The Swineherd's Fire · 3 Hour Sleep Story

    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. CHAPTERS0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire4:34 Chapter One: The Waking Stranger10:15 Chapter Two: The Shepherd with Grey Eyes17:48 Chapter Three: We Are Both of One Craft23:57 Chapter Four: The Cave and the Plan32:36 Chapter Five: The Farm on the High Ground40:20 Chapter Six: The Supper of the Swineherd49:10 Chapter Seven: The Tale of the Cloak56:02 Chapter Eight: The Story of the Swineherd1:03:17 Chapter Nine: The Son on the Sea1:09:26 Chapter Ten: I Am Your Father1:18:26 Chapter Eleven: The Plan Laid in Low Voices1:26:42 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight. And the Rain on the Swineherd's Roof Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/t3zpNlv2NjINew 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 Swineherd's Fire · 3 Hour Sleep Story

  3. 3d ago

    The Odyssey · The Last Strange Kingdom · 3 Hour Sleep Story

    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. CHAPTERS0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire4:30 Chapter One: The Wagon at Dawn12:00 Chapter Two: The Stranger from the Leaves20:18 Chapter Three: The Walk Behind the Mules30:06 Chapter Four: The Garden That Bore in Every Season39:05 Chapter Five: The Queen's Sharp Eye49:03 Chapter Six: The Games and the Throw1:00:28 Chapter Seven: The Blind Singer1:08:47 Chapter Eight: The Song of the Horse1:18:40 Chapter Nine: I Am Odysseus1:27:47 Chapter Ten: The Gifts and the Farewell1:35:09 Chapter Eleven: The Ship That Steered Itself1:41:03 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight. And the Sleeper Carried Home Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/p3kD1LVxzggNew 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 Last Strange Kingdom · 3 Hour Sleep Story

  4. 5d ago

    Anunnaki · The Tablets That Slept Three Thousand Years · 3 Hour Sleep Story

    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. Chapters0:00 Welcome6:54 The Same Lamp11:32 The King Who Collected19:22 The Night the City Burned24:34 What Fire Does to Clay29:25 Two and a Half Thousand Years38:41 The Men With Shovels45:16 The Cliff at Behistun51:42 The Clerk Who Taught Himself57:10 The Eleventh Tablet1:05:47 The Man Who Read Them Differently1:20:23 The Long Chain of Hands1:27:04 Goodnight. And the Tablet in the Quiet Room1:35:05 Calm music to drift off Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZUkf3KRjIgEverything 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.

    Anunnaki · The Tablets That Slept Three Thousand Years · 3 Hour Sleep Story

  5. Sep 13

    The Odyssey · The Raft at the Edge of the World · 3 Hour Sleep Story

    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. CHAPTERS0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire4:33 Chapter One: The Island Where Time Lay Down12:45 Chapter Two: The Man at the Shore21:32 Chapter Three: The Council in the High Air27:55 Chapter Four: The God on the Wide Water36:53 Chapter Five: The Choice Offered Once More45:46 Chapter Six: The Axe and the Trees54:44 Chapter Seven: The Stars on His Left Hand1:04:03 Chapter Eight: The Sea Remembers1:12:45 Chapter Nine: The River's Welcome1:18:58 Chapter Ten: The Bed of Leaves1:24:07 Chapter Eleven: The Dream Sent to a Princess1:28:29 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight and the Bed of Leaves Under the Two Olives Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/4pguhDajTH8New 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 Raft at the Edge of the World · 3 Hour Sleep Story

  6. Sep 11

    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.

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

  7. Sep 10

    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

  8. Sep 6

    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.

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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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