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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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. Each season moves through a different story tradition. Norse mythology, Egyptian myth, the great fairy tales from Cinderella to The Little Mermaid, the tales of 1001 Nights, and now Season Four, Homer's Odyssey. New episodes several times a week, 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 This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

  1. 1 day 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

  2. 2 days 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

  3. 4 days ago

    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

  4. 6 days ago

    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

  5. 30 Aug

    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

  6. 29 Aug

    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.

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

  7. 27 Aug

    The Snow Queen · The Original Fairy Tale · 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep

    A slow, calm 3 hour fairy tale sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight the storyteller opens the old book to The Snow Queen, Andersen's long winter tale of 1844. A troll's mirror shatters into splinters finer than dust, one splinter finds a boy named Kay, and his friend Gerda simply sets out to bring him home. Her road passes roses growing along a roof gutter, a robber girl who lends her own white reindeer, and a wise woman near the top of the world who says the truest thing in the whole story: the girl's own gentle heart is already power enough. The ice palace gives way to patience, not to force, and two friends walk home into summer. 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 deep ice in it, but the whole story is about the thaw, and nearly every stranger Gerda meets ends up helping her on her way. 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 11 of 12 · The Storybook Season Where this sits: Part 11 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 long walk north, and the thaw at the end of it. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin. Chapters:0:00 Welcome3:32 The Mirror of the Trolls8:35 The Roses on the Roof Gutter15:17 The White Sledge24:56 The River and the Cherry Garden38:44 The Crow Who Knew a Princess48:28 The Prince and the Princess57:38 The Little Robber Girl1:10:41 The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman1:21:08 The Word Made of Ice1:29:59 The Road Home Runs Through Spring1:36:32 The Roses in Bloom1:43:19 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.

    The Snow Queen · The Original Fairy Tale · 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep

  8. 23 Aug

    The Wizard of Oz · The Original Story · 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep

    A slow, calm 3 hour fairy tale sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight the storyteller opens the old book to The Wizard of Oz, as L. Frank Baum wrote it in 1900. The shoes are silver in the original, the Good Witch of the North leaves a kiss on Dorothy's forehead that keeps her safe on the whole road, the Emerald City hands out green spectacles at its gates, a field of poppies lies deep with sleep, and there is a small quiet country made entirely of china. The road is yellow brick and the pace is a walking pace, all the way there and all the way home. 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 are witches in it, but the ones we walk beside are kind, and the road stays even underfoot the whole way. 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 10 of 12 · The Storybook Season Where this sits: Part 10 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 yellow brick road at a bedtime pace. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin. Chapters:0:00 Welcome2:41 The House on the Gray Prairie12:05 The Silver Shoes and the Kiss25:01 The Road of Yellow Brick38:40 The Man of Tin49:10 The Cowardly Lion1:01:40 The Field of Scarlet Poppies1:12:41 The Emerald City and the Green Spectacles1:26:03 The Four Faces of Oz1:38:06 The Golden Cap1:54:43 The Man Behind the Screen2:15:07 The China Country and Glinda the Good2:32:07 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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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. Each season moves through a different story tradition. Norse mythology, Egyptian myth, the great fairy tales from Cinderella to The Little Mermaid, the tales of 1001 Nights, and now Season Four, Homer's Odyssey. New episodes several times a week, 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 This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

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