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. 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. 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. 1d ago

    Dead Sea Scrolls and Nag Hammadi · The Full Story of the Lost Books' Return · 3 Hour Sleep Story

    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 The Sleeping Almanac is also a shelf of books, bedtime stories to read and mythology coloring books: gildenmyth.com/booksLast time we took the books down off a shelf in a round church in the rain, and I told you that in one country they were never lost. Tonight, the other countries. A tall red haired Scotsman who walked out of the mountains of Ethiopia with three copies of the Book of Enoch and was laughed at in London for everything else he said. A shepherd, a cliff, and a jar above the lowest water on earth. A farmer in Egypt digging for something to put on his fields, and what his spade hit. A room full of fragments the size of postage stamps, and the man with the fastest hands in the world. And a cave where, when the scraps were finally laid out and read, the oldest copy of the book turned out to say what the copyist had been saying all along. A three hour sleep story about the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Nag Hammadi library, and the strange, quiet, true way the lost books came back. Every discovery told plainly, no version chosen as fact, every claim checked against the scholarship. And at the end, why the word we have been using for two nights is the wrong word. This is Part 2 of our seed for the next season, The Lost Books. Part 1, the books the Bible left out, is on the channel now. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome 6:01 The Same Lamp 10:56 Fourteen Hundred Years of Rumour 18:08 The Scotsman and the Three Books 25:52 The Jar in the Cliff 35:26 Cave Four, and the Monk Was Right 44:38 The Feast On the Wrong Day 52:18 The Other Jar 59:21 The Sand and the Lectern 1:04:50 The Bible Among the Books 1:10:43 What Was Never Lost 1:16:30 The Long Chain of Hands 1:22:15 Goodnight. And the Three Books in the Quiet Room 1:28:38 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. 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 Or wherever you listen: https://podcast.thesleepingalmanac.com #deadseascrolls #naghammadi #bookofenoch #lostbooks #qumran #sleepstory #bedtimestory #sleepstoriesforadults #fallasleepfast #insomnia #apocrypha #gnosticgospels #ethiopianorthodox #history #archaeology #mythology A correction to chapter nine: about 230 of the more than 900 surviving Dead Sea Scroll manuscripts are copies of books now in the Hebrew Bible. That is roughly a quarter of the collection, rather than most of it. The caves also preserved many other Jewish religious writings.

    Dead Sea Scrolls and Nag Hammadi · The Full Story of the Lost Books' Return · 3 Hour Sleep Story

  2. 2d ago

    Inanna's Descent to the Underworld Part 1: The Full Story of the Seven Gates | 3 Hour Sleep Story

    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 The Sleeping Almanac is also a shelf of books, bedtime stories to read and mythology coloring books: gildenmyth.com/books The Descent of Inanna is about four hundred lines long and it is the best built thing in all of Sumerian literature, and it is built out of seven gates. Tonight is the first half: a goddess who sets her mind on the great below, the seven powers she puts on and has taken off her one piece at a time, the seven judges, the peg on the wall, and the two small creatures made from the dirt under a god's fingernails who do the one thing nobody down there had ever thought to do. A slow, calm 3 hour sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. You do not have to follow it. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning. These are retellings drawn from the real tablets and the real history. Where the old stories turn toward fear or cruelty, we turn gently toward comfort, choosing the telling that serves a calm night. Where scholars disagree, the disagreement is said out loud rather than smoothed over. Season Five of The Sleeping Almanac: Mesopotamia. Twelve nights. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome 5:12 From the Great Above to the Great Below 10:40 What She Abandoned 15:33 The Seven Me 22:29 If I Do Not Return 26:56 The Door 33:35 What Ereshkigal Said 38:59 The Seven Gates 43:58 The Hook 49:59 Three Days 55:32 The Dirt Under His Nails 59:07 Agree With Her 1:04:41 No One Ascends Unmarked 1:10:06 Calm music to drift off More to listen to and read: Gildenmyth (all our stories and books): https://gildenmyth.com Mortgages in plain language, Inside The Home Loan: https://insidethehomeloan.com 🎧 The Sleeping Almanac is now a podcast. Follow so the next story finds you: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sleeping-almanac/id1896899316 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033vbQDixCCfxEWvl1XFJQ Or wherever you listen: https://podcast.thesleepingalmanac.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. New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday at 6pm ET. #inanna #sleepstory #mesopotamia #sumerian #bedtimestoriesforadults #deepsleep #sleep #insomnia #calm #mythology

    Inanna's Descent to the Underworld Part 1: The Full Story of the Seven Gates | 3 Hour Sleep Story

  3. 3d ago ·  Bonus

    Lost Books of the Bible Music · 3 Hour Sleep Music · Enoch's Night Sky

    Subscribing on YouTube helps the show grow, even if you only listen here: youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac The Sleeping Almanac is also a shelf of books, bedtime stories to read and mythology coloring books: gildenmyth.com/books Three hours of calm music from the world of the lost books of the Bible, made to help you fall asleep and stay asleep through the whole night. A bonus for the quiet nights, the same music playing tonight on our live sleep stream, three hours with no talking at all. Tonight is the music of our Book of Enoch specials, the long quiet of the old books under a desert night sky, carried in one long piece that turns into a second, slower theme and back again, so the music keeps drifting instead of looping every few minutes. Part One, The Books the Bible Left Out, aired on Tuesday, and Part Two, How the Lost Books Came Back, arrives on Friday. The music is original to the show, made with AI music tools and mixed for sleep: no melody that swells, no percussion, nothing sudden. If it helps you sleep, follow the show so each new story and each new night of music arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it. Watch the live on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GnViUPYxMoMore stories and first looks at new seasons: gildenmyth.com

    Lost Books of the Bible Music · 3 Hour Sleep Music · Enoch's Night Sky

  4. 4d ago

    Book of Enoch · The Books the Bible Left Out · Part 1 of the Full Story · 3 Hour Sleep Story

    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 The Sleeping Almanac is also a shelf of books, bedtime stories to read and mythology coloring books: gildenmyth.com/books The Book of Enoch was left out of most Bibles, and for a long time people have said it was lost, or hidden, or banned. Most of that is not true, and the true story is stranger and quieter. Tonight, a three hour sleep story about the books that did not make the list: the man in Genesis who did not die, the two hundred watchmen who came down a mountain, the house whose floor and ceiling are both fire, the giants who dreamed, the angel who read to Moses from a tablet, a gospel that is only sayings, and the one church, high in the mountains of Ethiopia, that never once called any of them lost. Read slowly, in a low voice, beside a lamp in a round highland church in the rain, by a copyist who has never heard that the book on his knees was missing. Told from the texts themselves, with every claim checked against the scholarship, and nothing invented. This is a seed for our next season, The Lost Books, and Part 2 is on Tuesday: how they came back, from a jar in a cliff above the Dead Sea and a jar in the Egyptian sand. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome 7:49 The Scriptorium in the Highlands 14:01 The Man Who Did Not Die 20:25 Two Hundred on the Mountain 28:25 The House of Fire and Ice 36:47 The Book That Argued With the Sky 43:20 The Giants Tell It Themselves 49:57 The Angel With the Tablet 56:37 A Page With No Story On It 1:02:29 The Serpent Who Told the Truth 1:07:53 The Quote Inside the Bible 1:16:37 The Church That Never Filed It Under Lost 1:23:36 Goodnight. And the Lamp in the Highlands 1:28:18 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. 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 Or wherever you listen: https://podcast.thesleepingalmanac.com #bookofenoch #enoch #lostbooks #deadseascrolls #sleepstory #bedtimestory #sleepstoriesforadults #fallasleepfast #insomnia #apocrypha #ethiopianorthodox #bookofjubilees #gospelofthomas #naghammadi #history #mythology

    Book of Enoch · The Books the Bible Left Out · Part 1 of the Full Story · 3 Hour Sleep Story

  5. Season 10 Trailer

    Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac

    Subscribing on YouTube helps the show grow, even if you only listen here: youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac The Sleeping Almanac is also a shelf of books, bedtime stories to read and mythology coloring books: gildenmyth.com/books The world's oldest stories, told slowly enough to fall asleep to. Three hour sleep stories for anyone who lies down at night and cannot switch the day off: Greek heroes and the whole Odyssey, Norse gods, Gilgamesh and the clay tablets of Babylon, the lost books of the Bible, Russian fairy tales and King Arthur. New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Every story is also on YouTube at The Sleeping Almanac: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac 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.

  6. 5d ago ·  Bonus

    Norse Mythology Sleep Stories · 11 Hour Compilation Part 2 · Fenrir, Loki and the World Serpent

    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 The Sleeping Almanac is also a shelf of books, bedtime stories to read and mythology coloring books: gildenmyth.com/books A bonus for the long nights: six Norse Mythology sleep stories from this feed in one long episode, told back to back with short pauses between them, then a long stretch of quiet music so it keeps playing through the night. It is the same compilation that airs live on our YouTube channel tonight. In this episode:0:00:00 Welcome0:00:33 The Binding of Fenrir1:48:13 The Binding of Loki3:36:37 Thor and the World Serpent5:04:36 The Giant's Bride, and the Theft of Mjolnir6:55:04 The Mead of Poetry8:33:11 Skadi, the Cold Mountain Bride9:50:32 Ambience, the long night Every story here is also in the feed as its own full episode. Watch the live compilation on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy48y9NWX78More stories and first looks at new seasons: gildenmyth.com

    Norse Mythology Sleep Stories · 11 Hour Compilation Part 2 · Fenrir, Loki and the World Serpent

  7. 6d ago

    Etana and the Eagle: The Full Surviving Story of a Forgotten Sumerian Myth | 3 Hour Sleep Story

    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 The Sleeping Almanac is also a shelf of books, bedtime stories to read and mythology coloring books: gildenmyth.com/books Etana is the oldest story of human flight, and hardly anybody has heard of it. A king of Kish has everything except the one ordinary thing he wants, and to get it he must go up. Tonight is the eagle and the serpent and the broken oath in the tree, the pit, the long climb, the earth going small below, and the most restful passage in this whole season: a man looking down at his own country until it is the size of a bread basket, and then smaller, and then gone. A slow, calm 3 hour sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. You do not have to follow it. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning. These are retellings drawn from the real tablets and the real history. Where the old stories turn toward fear or cruelty, we turn gently toward comfort, choosing the telling that serves a calm night. Where scholars disagree, the disagreement is said out loud rather than smoothed over. Season Five of The Sleeping Almanac: Mesopotamia. Twelve nights. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome 5:05 The Shepherd of Kish 11:22 No Child 19:27 The Tree With Two Houses 23:42 The Broken Oath 28:02 The Dead Ox 32:03 The Pit 37:18 Eight Months 40:25 Up 45:00 The World Grown Small 50:37 The Fall 54:38 What the Seals Remember 1:03:11 Goodnight Over Kish 1:07:28 Calm music to drift off More to listen to and read: Gildenmyth (all our stories and books): https://gildenmyth.com Mortgages in plain language, Inside The Home Loan: https://insidethehomeloan.com 🎧 The Sleeping Almanac is now a podcast. Follow so the next story finds you: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sleeping-almanac/id1896899316 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033vbQDixCCfxEWvl1XFJQ Or wherever you listen: https://podcast.thesleepingalmanac.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. New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday at 6pm ET. #etana #sleepstory #mesopotamia #sumerian #bedtimestoriesforadults #deepsleep #sleep #insomnia #calm #mythology

    Etana and the Eagle: The Full Surviving Story of a Forgotten Sumerian Myth | 3 Hour Sleep Story

  8. Oct 4 ·  Bonus

    Norse Mythology Sleep Stories · 11 Hour Compilation Part 1 · The Nine Worlds to Ragnarok

    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 The Sleeping Almanac is also a shelf of books, bedtime stories to read and mythology coloring books: gildenmyth.com/books A bonus for the long nights: six Norse Mythology sleep stories from this feed in one long episode, told back to back with short pauses between them, then a long stretch of quiet music so it keeps playing through the night. It is the same compilation that aired live on our YouTube channel. In this episode:0:00:00 The Nine Worlds1:50:03 Odin's Search for Wisdom3:46:57 Mjolnir, the Hammer of Thor5:49:17 Idunn's Apples7:45:31 The Death of Baldr9:48:08 Ragnarok11:12:46 Ambience, the long night Every story here is also in the feed as its own full episode. Watch the live compilation on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPCZNu0t5NcMore stories and first looks at new seasons: gildenmyth.com

    Norse Mythology Sleep Stories · 11 Hour Compilation Part 1 · The Nine Worlds to Ragnarok
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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. 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. 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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