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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. 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

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. The Epic of Gilgamesh, night three, and it is the kind one. A king walks out of his own city in a lion skin looking for the one man who never died. Tonight is the mountain with the twin peaks, the woman with the beer house at the edge of the world, the ferryman and the punting poles, the flood told by the man who survived it, the test with the loaves, the plant at the bottom of the sea, and the ending that has been quietly changing people's minds for four thousand years. 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 5:20 The Lion Skin 9:02 The Mountain With a Gate In It 13:07 Twelve Hours of Dark 17:30 The Garden of Stones 23:47 The Woman With the Tavern 28:54 What She Told Him 33:29 The Waters of Death 36:59 The Man Who Did Not Die 41:44 The Flood, in His Own Words 50:33 Seven Loaves 55:36 The Plant, and the Snake 1:00:09 The Wall 1:11:54 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. #gilgamesh #sleepstory #mesopotamia #epicofgilgamesh #bedtimestoriesforadults #deepsleep #sleep #insomnia #calm #mythology

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. The Epic of Gilgamesh, night two, and this is the hard one. A goddess makes an offer and is refused. The Bull of Heaven comes down on Uruk and opens a fissure in the plain. The gods hold a council and somebody has to answer for it. And then a man sits beside a bed for six days and seven nights and will not let his friend go, until the seventh day, when he understands. 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 5:07 The Bath 12:02 The Offer 17:50 The List 26:28 The Bull 30:20 The Killing of the Bull 33:20 The Haunch 37:24 The Council 41:58 The Door 45:19 The Curse and the Blessing 50:45 The House of Dust 58:36 Six Days and Seven Nights 1:06:06 The Statue, and the City Without Him 1:18:42 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. #gilgamesh #sleepstory #mesopotamia #epicofgilgamesh #bedtimestoriesforadults #deepsleep #sleep #insomnia #calm #mythology

Three hours of calm music from the world of Chinese myth, 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. 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=r8rpznmJnkYMore stories and first looks at new seasons: gildenmyth.com

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. The Epic of Gilgamesh is the story everybody has heard of and almost nobody has actually read, and it is three thousand lines long, so we are taking three nights over it. Tonight is the first: the wall of Uruk, a king who was too much for his own city, a wild man made out of clay and raised by gazelles, a wrestling match in a doorway that turns into the deepest friendship in ancient literature, and the long road to the cedar forest and the guardian who lived in it. 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 4:53 The Wall 9:28 The King Who Was Too Much 13:59 The One Made Out of Clay 20:06 The Trapper and the Woman 25:40 Bread and Beer 30:25 The Wrestling in the Doorway 35:53 The Plan, and Everyone Who Said No 41:24 The Road 47:53 The Forest That Was Not Silent 53:02 The Seven Terrors, and the Killing 59:37 What Enlil Did With the Radiance 1:06:01 The River of Timber 1:11:42 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. #gilgamesh #sleepstory #mesopotamia #epicofgilgamesh #bedtimestoriesforadults #deepsleep #sleep #insomnia #calm #mythology

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. A bonus for the long nights: six Fairy Tale 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 Sleeping Beauty1:35:02 Robin Hood3:06:36 The Ballad of Mulan4:41:28 The Wizard of Oz7:19:07 The Snow Queen9:08:35 The Moon Princess Kaguya11:01:03 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=w4_eJWxBzyoMore stories and first looks at new seasons: gildenmyth.com

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. Enheduanna is the first author in human history whose name is attached to what she wrote. She was a real woman with a real job, high priestess of the moon god at Ur, daughter of Sargon of Akkad, and about four thousand three hundred years ago she signed her poems. Tonight is her life and her bad year: the forty two temple hymns, the rebel who drove her out of her own precinct, the poem she wrote from exile as a plea, and the schoolroom copies made centuries after her death that are the reason we can still read her at all. 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 5:17 The Disk 10:19 Sargon's Daughter 16:20 The Moon House at Ur 23:27 Forty Two Temples 29:41 The Goddess Who Was Both 34:04 The Mountain That Would Not Bow 38:16 The Rebel 42:32 Driven Out 48:38 The Poem as a Plea 57:30 The Return 1:02:04 The Copies 1:06:48 The Face on the Disk 1:12:05 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. #enheduanna #sleepstory #mesopotamia #sumerian #bedtimestoriesforadults #deepsleep #sleep #insomnia #calm #history

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. A bonus for the long nights: six Fairy Tale 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 Scheherazade1:41:53 Aladdin3:17:39 The Little Mermaid4:45:45 Cinderella6:15:58 Peter Pan8:31:39 Alice in Wonderland11:17:16 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=k03CuJ9lykkMore stories and first looks at new seasons: gildenmyth.com

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. Enuma Elish is the Babylonian creation story, and it is not called that at all. Its name is simply the first two words on the first tablet, When above. Seven tablets, about a thousand lines, and a world made first out of water, then out of noise, then out of a quarrel, and at last out of the body of the oldest thing there was. Tonight you will hear how the sky was fastened up, where the Tigris and the Euphrates were said to come from, how a city put its own name on the making of everything, and why, once a year, the most powerful man in Babylon was slapped in the face by a priest until he cried. 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 7:07 When Above 12:40 The First Births 17:43 The Noise in the Water 22:44 Apsu Sleeps Forever 27:47 The Mother Arms 34:06 The Court That Could Not Answer 40:58 The Bargain of the Young God 44:57 The Net, the Winds, the Bow 49:19 The Battle, and the Quiet After 55:18 What Was Made From Her 1:01:08 The People and the City 1:12:51 The Night the King Wept 1:20:17 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. #enumaelish #sleepstory #mesopotamia #babylon #bedtimestoriesforadults #deepsleep #sleep #insomnia #calm #mythology

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. Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight is the last night of the Odyssey, and it is the quietest one. A king who has just won back his own hall walks out of it at first light and goes up into the hills, because there is one person left who does not know he is alive. His father lives on a high farm now, in a labourer's patched tunic and gardener's gloves, working an orchard alone and refusing the comfort of the house, because grief made him small and the work is the only thing that answers. You will hear a son stand at the edge of a vineyard row and watch an old man dig, and try a stranger's story on him first, and watch it land like a stone. And then you will hear him give up the disguise and prove himself with the gentlest evidence in all of Homer. Not a scar. Not a bow. A list of trees. Thirteen pear, ten apple, forty fig, and the rows of vines a father once walked with a small boy at his heel and counted out loud as a gift, and the boy remembered every one of them for forty years. You will hear a house wake up around that. A bath, clean clothes, an old woman's cooking, three generations of one family sitting at a table at the same time for the first time in a lifetime. And out on the road the fathers of the dead come looking for the king with spears, and the anger of a whole island stands up at once, and it is ended not with a battle but with a voice out of the sky and a bolt in the dust and oaths of peace sworn on the spot. Then the days after. A story promised and finally told, an oar carried inland until someone calls it a winnowing fan, and a sail at the edge of morning. 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 orchard go quiet. There is nothing to do now but listen and rest. CHAPTERS0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire4:00 Chapter One: The Morning After Twenty Years12:47 Chapter Two: The Walk Up Through the Autumn Island19:34 Chapter Three: The Gardener King27:47 Chapter Four: The Test He Could Not Finish34:13 Chapter Five: The Proof of the Orchard44:23 Chapter Six: The Bath and the Table52:25 Chapter Seven: The Anger in the Town1:01:36 Chapter Eight: The Voice That Ended It1:11:38 Chapter Nine: The Oaths of Peace1:15:58 Chapter Ten: The Days After1:23:17 Chapter Eleven: The Story That Was Promised1:29:22 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight. And the Sail at the Edge of Morning Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/HViw5KkaW-YNew 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 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. Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight a great bow comes down off a wall where it has hung at rest through a whole long war, and the strongest young men in a kingdom warm it and grease it at the fire and cannot bend it, because strength was never the thing it was waiting for. A queen carries her husband's bow down the stairs in her own two arms and sets the terms of a contest she believes no one can win. A boy plants twelve iron axe heads in a straight trench down the hall floor, a game he has never once seen played, and his hands know it anyway. And a beggar in rags asks to try that bow, and turns it in his hands the way a singer turns a new lyre, and strings it without rising from his stool, and plucks it once, and one clear note answers like a swallow. You will see a single arrow fly clean through the sockets of all twelve axes without touching iron. You will see a house give a wandering king back his name, and then his hall, and then his wife, who makes him prove himself with a bed whose secret is a living olive tree for a leg, rooted in the island itself, that no man alive could move. The night is stern for a little while in its middle, told plainly and in a low voice and staged not at all, and it is brief, and it passes. On the far side of it there is a house swept clean, and two people knowing each other again after twenty years, and a night the grey eyed goddess made longer so they would have time enough. 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 hall go quiet. There is nothing to do now but listen and rest. CHAPTERS0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire4:40 Chapter One: The Morning of the Axes12:17 Chapter Two: The Bow Comes Down21:32 Chapter Three: The Contest of the Young Men30:14 Chapter Four: The Two Herdsmen in the Yard37:46 Chapter Five: The Beggar Asks for the Bow44:27 Chapter Six: The Singer Strings the Bow50:43 Chapter Seven: The Arrow Through the Twelve56:52 Chapter Eight: The Reckoning1:02:31 Chapter Nine: The House Made Clean1:08:21 Chapter Ten: Come and See1:14:33 Chapter Eleven: The Bed That Could Not Be Moved1:25:00 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight. And the Night the Goddess Made Longer Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/1HRpIBQzS6ENew 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 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. 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 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. 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 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. 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 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. 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.