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. 4h ago ·  Bonus

    All Souls Day and Dziady · Church, Candles, Forefathers' Eve, the Full Story · 11 Hour Sleep Story

    Eleven hours for sleep. The complete story is told once, followed by the same quiet ambience through the rest of the night. This bonus accompanies the holiday live stream. Two nights ago a table was set in a wooden house, and a place was left empty, and a woman said her father's name to a chair. Tonight, in our imagined village, a priest walks past that house on his way home from saying the office for the dead, sees the candle in the window, knows exactly what it means, and keeps walking. 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. The second of two specials that open Season Seven, the Slavic season. How Christian days of remembrance shared a season with household customs, sometimes overlapping and sometimes meeting opposition. The slips of paper with the names of the dead handed in at the church door. A Polish burial ground on the first of November, lit like a town. A boy from the borderland who grew up to write a short verse play about a chapel at night, three kinds of ghost and one strange line, and how that play became the book a whole nation carries. And a night in Warsaw when the play was closed. Told plainly and slowly, distinguishing historical accounts, poetic invention and our imagined village. Watch the live on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcpB5MgAJ3EMore stories and books: gildenmyth.com Chapters0:00 Welcome4:30 The Same Night, Another Name11:39 Two Days at the Start of November22:40 The Long Argument29:15 The Souls' Day36:25 A Burial Ground Lit Like a Town43:27 The Boy From the Borderland51:48 A Chapel at Night57:55 Three Kinds of Ghost1:05:20 The Line the Play Is Built On1:11:30 The Poem That Became a Country1:20:05 The Night of the Closed Theatre1:25:09 Goodnight. And the Two Candles1:30:51 Rain ambience to drift off

    All Souls Day and Dziady · Church, Candles, Forefathers' Eve, the Full Story · 11 Hour Sleep Story

  2. 1d ago

    Book of Jubilees · The Full Story Behind the Angel and the Heavenly Tablets · 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 An angel reading aloud to Moses from tablets that were written before the world was made, and a man on a mountain writing it down. Tonight, the Book of Jubilees opened properly: a book that retells Genesis through law and heavenly tablets. The garden of Eden as a temple, with Adam brought in after forty days and Eve after eighty, and the temple incense burned at its gate on the day they left. The animals going quiet. Cain killed by his own house of stone. The book of medicines an angel taught Noah for the sickness the spirits cause. The accuser who proposed the test on the mountain and stood at the altar and was put to shame when the knife stopped, and who was bound for five days behind the people on the night of the lamb so he could not speak against them. Abraham building the first booths with a wreath on his head. Levi counted as a tithe, the tenth son from the youngest, and given the old books to keep and renew. The children with white hair, and the promise that the world is healed by reading. A three hour sleep story, the fifth night of Season Six, The Lost Books. Framed by an imagined copyist taking the book down from his shelf in a round highland church in Ethiopia. The Book of Jubilees, Mashafa Kufale, is scripture in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church today, whole, in Ge'ez, and it was kept by the Jews of Ethiopia too. An authentic book is not the same as a true event, and this one is authentic, written in Hebrew about a hundred and fifty years before Christ, quoted by the church fathers, found in pieces in the Dead Sea caves and under another book in a library in Milan. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome 4:35 The Book of Division 12:12 The Ledger of the World 19:19 Twenty Two Works 25:51 The Garden That Was a Temple 32:31 What Cain's House Did 39:42 The Prince and the Knife 46:06 The Night the Accuser Was Bound 54:40 The Book Noah Wrote 1:01:51 The First Booths 1:08:11 Levi's Right Hand 1:16:24 The Children With White Hair 1:23:17 Goodnight. And the Book Still Kept 1:30:10 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 first four nights are on the channel now. Next: the Book of Parables, the Son of Man and the book only Ethiopia kept. 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 #bookofjubilees #bookofenoch #deadseascrolls #mastema #gardenofeden #bindingofisaac #passover #lostbooks #sleepstory #bedtimestory #sleepstoriesforadults #fallasleepfast #insomnia #apocrypha #ethiopianorthodox #history #thelostbooks

    Book of Jubilees · The Full Story Behind the Angel and the Heavenly Tablets · 3 Hour Sleep Story

  3. 2d ago ·  Bonus

    Dziady · The Full Story of the Slavic Halloween When the Dead Come to Supper · 11 Hour Sleep Story

    Eleven hours for sleep. The complete story is told once, followed by the same quiet ambience through the rest of the night. This bonus accompanies the holiday live stream. Tonight there is a place set at the table for somebody who is not coming. The chair has been left empty on purpose, the bowl in front of it is full, and in a moment somebody is going to say a name out loud in a quiet room and mean it. This is Dziady, the night of the grandfathers, recorded in differing household forms across parts of the Slavic lands, and still kept in a few places tonight while 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. The first of two Halloween specials that open Season Seven, the Slavic season. The stove that feeds the whole house. An early written account of these people, by a Byzantine secretary in the sixth century. The walk to the graves with bread wrapped in linen. The names said aloud at the head of the table, and the candle and morning dismissal in our pictured house. Told plainly and slowly, distinguishing recorded customs from the imagined house that carries the story. Watch the live on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXi9rMI8HDAMore stories and books: gildenmyth.com Chapters0:00 Welcome5:13 The Extra Place10:48 The Early Account19:12 The People Without a Book30:07 The House That Feeds38:46 The Road to the Graves47:09 The Names Said Aloud51:59 The Ones Who Come Hungry59:40 The Candle and the Window1:05:16 The Other Door1:12:10 The Dismissal1:17:33 The Ones Who Wrote It Down1:25:38 Goodnight. And the Place Still Set1:32:07 Fireplace ambience to drift off

    Dziady · The Full Story of the Slavic Halloween When the Dead Come to Supper · 11 Hour Sleep Story

  4. 3d ago

    Book of Enoch · The Full Story of the Calendar That Split a People · 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 A year of three hundred and sixty four days. Fifty two weeks exactly, every feast on the same weekday forever, and wrong about the sun. Tonight, the 364 day calendar in the Book of Enoch, Jubilees and several texts among the Dead Sea Scrolls, and what it did to the people who kept it: a feast of the covenant on a Sunday for them and another day for the city, the moon that comes in ten days too soon, the four days at the corners of the year that were the days of Noah's flood, a priest who confronted the Teacher on a day of fasting, an encounter some scholars interpret as a calendar dispute, a letter of rulings addressed to a figure whose identity remains uncertain, and then the thirteen Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice, one for each Sabbath of a quarter, in which the beams and doors of the temple above are told to praise, and the innermost room has a sound of stillness in it, and a copy of which was found in the ruins of the fortress of Masada. A three hour sleep story, the fourth night of Season Six, The Lost Books. Framed by an imagined museum visit and an imagined Ethiopian copyist whose calendar has thirteen months. The Book of Enoch and the Book of Jubilees are scripture in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church today. One paragraph of sums, and then no more. An authentic book is not the same as a true event, and a real year that real people kept is still real when the sun disagrees. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome 4:25 Fifty Two Weeks Exactly 11:24 The Moon That Came Too Soon 18:44 The Feast on the Fifteenth 25:43 A Day of Atonement Disputed 31:51 The Sky Book, Once More 37:59 One Quarrel Among Several 44:57 Thirteen Songs for Thirteen Sabbaths 52:10 The Seventh Song 59:30 The Chariot and the Stillness 1:07:14 The Rock 1:15:22 Why a Calendar Splits a People 1:22:53 Goodnight. And the Month of the Small Days 1:29:31 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 first three nights are on the channel now. Next: the Book of Jubilees, the angel and the heavenly tablets. 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 #bookofjubilees #deadseascrolls #qumran #calendar #masada #lostbooks #sleepstory #bedtimestory #sleepstoriesforadults #fallasleepfast #insomnia #apocrypha #ethiopianorthodox #history #thelostbooks

    Book of Enoch · The Full Story of the Calendar That Split a People · 3 Hour Sleep Story

  5. 4d ago

    Noah's Birth · The Full Story of the Child Feared to Be Nephilim · 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 A baby is born in a house before the flood, and when he opens his eyes the whole house lights up like the sun, and his father runs, because in that generation a child who was too beautiful might be one of theirs. Tonight, the birth of Noah as the Book of Enoch tells it, and as the Dead Sea Scrolls tell it longer, in the first person, in a roll so badly damaged it was the last of the seven from the first cave to be opened: Lamech afraid, his wife Bitenosh swearing by the King of the heavens that the child is his, Methuselah walking to the ends of the earth to ask Enoch, and the answer that is a name. Then Noah in his own words, opening the first wine of the new world on a mountain and dividing the earth among his sons. Then Abram on the night of entering Egypt, dreaming of a cedar and a palm tree from one root, and Sarai weeping, and the court poem that describes her, and the two years, and his hands on the king's head. Then the walk round the edges of the land. The Book of Giants recapped in a chapter, the priest Levi taught the woods for the altar by his grandfather, and a dying priest telling his sons to keep the books. A three hour sleep story, the third night of Season Six, The Lost Books. Framed by an imagined visit to the museum in Jerusalem whose roof is shaped like the lid of a jar, and by an imagined copyist in a round highland church in Ethiopia. The Book of Enoch is scripture in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. Source claims checked against the texts and scholarship, with uncertain names and damaged passages marked as such. An authentic book is not the same as a true event. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome 5:39 The Roll That Would Not Open 11:02 The Child Who Lit the Room 18:07 What Bitenosh Said 24:10 The Errand to the Ends of the Earth 31:03 The Giants, Once More 36:19 Noah, in His Own Words 45:45 The Priest Who Was Taught to Read 53:16 The Cedar and the Palm 59:33 The Most Beautiful Woman in Egypt 1:06:43 The Man Who Walked Round the Land 1:15:49 Why It Was Kept 1:21:22 Goodnight. And the Lamp That Was Only a Lamp 1:27:50 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. Nights one and two, The Judgment of the Watchers and The People of the Caves, are on the channel now. Next: the calendar that split a people. 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 #bookofgiants #bookofenoch #noah #deadseascrolls #genesisapocryphon #lostbooks #sleepstory #bedtimestory #sleepstoriesforadults #fallasleepfast #insomnia #apocrypha #ethiopianorthodox #history #mythology #thelostbooks

    Noah's Birth · The Full Story of the Child Feared to Be Nephilim · 3 Hour Sleep Story

  6. 5d ago ·  Bonus

    Halloween Sleep Music in Full · 3 Hours of Vintage Parlor Waltzes by Lamplight

    Three hours of calm vintage Halloween music for sleep. A bonus from the same music made for our holiday live stream, with no talking. An oil lamp turned low in a quiet parlor, a carved lantern on the mantel, and slow piano waltzes with cello and harp. The music is newly made in the manner of early twentieth century parlor music. The music is original to the show, made with AI music tools and mixed gently for sleep. If it helps you rest, follow the show so each new story and night of music arrives on its own. A rating on Apple Podcasts helps other listeners find us. Watch the live on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCJof_1Ws24More stories and books: gildenmyth.com Chapters0:00 The first hour1:00:00 The second hour2:00:00 The third hour

    Halloween Sleep Music in Full · 3 Hours of Vintage Parlor Waltzes by Lamplight

  7. 6d ago

    Dead Sea Scrolls · The Full Story of the People of the Caves · 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 Who put the jars in the cliff? Tonight, the Dead Sea Scrolls and the people who kept and used them: a rule book that measured punishment in days, thirty of them for falling asleep in the meeting, a rule prescribing study during a third of every night, two spirits in every heart, a scroll made of copper listing sixty four treasure locations whose secure identification remains unresolved, the longest scroll of all, hidden under a floor for years, in which God speaks in the first person about a temple that was never built, a war scroll with battle formations and trumpet signals, a book that was found twice, half a century apart, in a Cairo storeroom and a desert cave, a priest from three verses of Genesis raised into a heavenly judge, Josephus, who wrote an ancient account of the Essenes, the oath they swore to keep the books and the names of the angels, and the handwriting model named Enoch, presented in a 2025 study. A three hour sleep story, the second night of Season Six, The Lost Books. Framed by an imagined visit to the museum in Jerusalem whose roof is shaped like the lid of a jar, and by an imagined copyist in a round highland church in Ethiopia. Source claims checked against the scrolls and scholarship, with uncertain identities left uncertain. An authentic book is not the same as a true event, and these are surviving ancient manuscripts. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome 5:46 The Room With the Roof Like a Lid 11:27 The Scroll Made of Copper 18:47 The Longest Scroll 25:32 One Day in the Rule 32:58 The Two Spirits 39:53 The Book That Was Found Twice 46:48 A Creature of Clay 54:34 Banners and Trumpets 1:02:28 The Priest Who Was a Judge 1:08:08 The Man Who Wrote About Them 1:15:34 The Machine Named Enoch 1:22:48 Goodnight. And the Church on the Hill 1:29:46 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. Night one, The Judgment of the Watchers, is on the channel now. Next: the child who lit the room, Noah’s birth in Enoch and the Genesis Apocryphon. 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 #deadseascrolls #qumran #essenes #lostbooks #sleepstory #bedtimestory #sleepstoriesforadults #fallasleepfast #insomnia #apocrypha #bookofenoch #copperscroll #history #archaeology #thelostbooks

    Dead Sea Scrolls · The Full Story of the People of the Caves · 3 Hour Sleep Story

  8. Oct 27 ·  Bonus

    Anunnaki and the Book of Enoch Sleep Stories · 11 Hour Compilation · Five Specials in One Night

    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: five Anunnaki and Book of Enoch 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 Welcome0:00:29 Anunnaki · The Real Story the Tablets Tell1:31:18 Anunnaki · The Tablets That Slept Three Thousand Years3:06:28 Book of Enoch · The Books the Bible Left Out4:36:44 Dead Sea Scrolls and Nag Hammadi · How the Lost Books Came Back6:11:32 Anunnaki · The Ancient Astronaut Theory in Full7:41:44 Calm music, 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=oTDKmUG9m10More stories and first looks at new seasons: gildenmyth.com

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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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