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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. 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

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

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 Two hundred watchmen came down a mountain and would not go back. Tonight, the Book of Enoch tells what was decided about them, and how, and it is not a war in heaven. It is a sentence, carried down by four messengers with four instructions: a word in Noah's ear before anything else, the one who taught the making of knives put under rough stones in a hole in the desert, the giants turned on each other, and their leader bound under the hills for seventy generations. And then, because this is the Book of Enoch, a journey. The man who carried the answer is taken by the hand and walked to the ends of the earth and shown where the winds are kept, the fire in the west that receives every setting of the sun, the mouths of all the rivers, seven mountains of pearl and jacinth and alabaster with a summit of sapphire, the empty place where the stars that came up late are kept, the mountain in the west with four hollows for the dead, one bright with a spring, a tree like no other on the hill where the throne will be, with fruit like the dates of a palm, and, at the far edge of the east, the garden, still there, with the tree that the book says the first man and woman ate from. A three hour sleep story, the first night of Season Six, The Lost Books. Read slowly, in a low voice, beside a lamp in a round highland church in Ethiopia in the rain, by a copyist who is ruling the last leaf of the copy he began in our two Lost Books specials. Retold from the text, chapter by chapter, with source claims checked against primary texts and scholarship. The copyist and his room are an imagined frame. The Book of Enoch is scripture in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. An authentic book is not the same as a true event, and this one is told as what it is: a real book, read the way it was read. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome 6:25 The Last Gathering 11:10 What Was Decided 17:27 Seventy Generations 24:05 The Plant 30:19 The Voice by the River, Again 38:06 The Ends of the Earth 44:58 The Stars That Were Late 51:32 The Hollow Places 58:26 The Tree Like No Other 1:06:25 The Garden in the East 1:14:12 The Gates of the Winds 1:23:55 Goodnight. And the Ruled Leaf 1:30:30 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 people of the caves, the child who lit the room, the calendar that split a people, the angel and the heavenly tablets, the book only Ethiopia kept, Eden from the other side, the gospel with no story, the books the ground gave back, the tower built of souls, the Christmas story the Bible left out, and why they were left out. 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 #enoch #watchers #nephilim #lostbooks #sleepstory #bedtimestory #sleepstoriesforadults #fallasleepfast #insomnia #apocrypha #ethiopianorthodox #deadseascrolls #history #mythology #thelostbooks

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 Egyptian 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 Ra and the First Sunrise1:52:11 The Secret Name of Ra3:48:55 The Eye of Ra5:42:25 Thoth and the Five Stolen Days7:33:58 Osiris the Green King9:02:15 The Death of Osiris10:19:10 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=4acTlokF_-kMore 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. 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 For twelve nights this season told the oldest stories on earth the way the clay tells them. Tonight, the other story. The one most people mean when they say Anunnaki: a twelfth planet on a long slow orbit, visitors who came for gold, a worker made in a laboratory out of clay and blood, a memory the tablets are said to keep. It is told whole, at full length, the way the people who believe it tell it, with its wonder intact. And after each part, once and plainly, what the object is: what the word means in the dictionary, what the seal in Berlin actually shows, what the flood poem actually says, what the chromosome and the green tablets actually are. Nobody is scolded. Nobody is lectured. If you have the twelve nights in you, you decide; if not, you are welcome anyway, and you may simply sleep. A three hour sleep story set in a museum study room after closing, with two things on the table: a four thousand year old cylinder seal and a paperback from 1976. Both are real. Told with dignity for the man who wrote the book and for everyone who loves it. This is the thirteenth night of Season Five, standing outside the twelve, and it closes the season. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome 7:25 The Man Who Read Them Differently 14:48 An Older Idea 20:24 The Name 25:52 The Twelfth Planet 34:33 The Seal 41:51 The Gold 48:25 Clay and Blood 55:11 The Giants Who Were on the Earth 1:02:09 The Newer Voices 1:09:29 The Sudden City 1:19:34 Why It Is Loved 1:25:22 Goodnight. And the Seal in Its Case 1:30:11 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 This channel uses AI tools (script research, narration, visuals) under the direction of a human editor. Every episode is researched, reviewed, and revised before publication. #anunnaki #ancientastronauts #sitchin #sumerian #mesopotamia #sleepstory #bedtimestoriesforadults #sleepstoriesforadults #fallasleepfast #insomnia #history #mythology #ancientaliens

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 Erra and Ishum is the only poem in this season whose author put his own name at the end and told us how he wrote it. He says it came to him in a dream, and that he wrote it down in the morning without adding a line. Tonight is a god of war who cannot settle, the Seven who were made to be used, the herald who talks him down, the statue whose gold went dull, the empty seat, and a tablet on a peg beside a door. 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 5:38 The Man Who Had the Dream 10:58 The One Who Could Not Settle 15:20 The Seven 21:18 The Bolted Door 27:27 The Statue Needs Cleaning 33:22 The Seat Is Empty 39:26 What It Looked Like 49:33 The Speech 50:58 He Sat Down 56:37 The Remnant 1:00:53 The Blessing on the House 1:05:55 The Tablet on the Peg 1:11:16 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. #erra #sleepstory #mesopotamia #babylon #bedtimestoriesforadults #deepsleep #sleep #insomnia #calm #mythology

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 Celtic 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. Tonight is a candlelit hall on a western coast in the last nights of October, the sea on the rocks somewhere below and the old year turning toward Samhain, carried in one long piece that returns in a darker, slower form, so the music keeps drifting instead of looping every few minutes. The music belongs to Cerridwen, the Welsh keeper of the cauldron of wisdom. 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=6efAeDvblocMore 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. 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 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 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. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome 4:30 The Same Night, Another Name 11:39 Two Days at the Start of November 22:40 The Long Argument 29:15 The Souls' Day 36:25 A Burial Ground Lit Like a Town 43:27 The Boy From the Borderland 51:48 A Chapel at Night 57:55 Three Kinds of Ghost 1:05:20 The Line the Play Is Built On 1:11:30 The Poem That Became a Country 1:20:05 The Night of the Closed Theatre 1:25:09 Goodnight. And the Two Candles 1:30:51 Rain ambience to drift off The Sleeping Almanac retells the world's oldest myths and stories as three hour sleep stories for adults. Calm narration over the sound of real rain, no sudden sounds, no mid roll ads. New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday night, and live every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. Season Seven, the Slavic season, runs twelve nights from November 15: Vasilisa and the doll, Perun and the river, Baba Yaga, Koschei the Deathless, the Firebird, the Frog Princess, Ilya Muromets, Sadko, Father Frost, the bathhouse, the vampire graves of 1732, and Svyatogor. 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 #allsoulsday #dziady #forefatherseve #mickiewicz #slavicfolklore #poland #zaduszki #daysofthedead #sleepstory #bedtimestory #sleepstoriesforadults #fallasleepfast #insomnia #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. 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 Mesopotamian 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 Welcome0:28 Inanna Descent One1:12:28 Inanna Descent Two2:23:03 Adapa3:44:12 Nergal and Ereshkigal5:00:14 Anzu6:09:50 Erra7:21:06 Music and rest 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=a6DkBFEa3KoMore 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. 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 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 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. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome 5:13 The Extra Place 10:48 The Early Account 19:12 The People Without a Book 30:07 The House That Feeds 38:46 The Road to the Graves 47:09 The Names Said Aloud 51:59 The Ones Who Come Hungry 59:40 The Candle and the Window 1:05:16 The Other Door 1:12:10 The Dismissal 1:17:33 The Ones Who Wrote It Down 1:25:38 Goodnight. And the Place Still Set 1:32:07 Fireplace ambience to drift off The Sleeping Almanac retells the world's oldest myths and stories as three hour sleep stories for adults. Calm narration over the sound of a real log fire, no sudden sounds, no mid roll ads. New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday night, and live every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. Season Seven, the Slavic season, opens with two specials, Dziady and All Souls, and runs twelve nights from November 15: Vasilisa and the doll, Perun and the river, Baba Yaga, Koschei the Deathless, the Firebird, the Frog Princess, Ilya Muromets, Sadko, Father Frost, the bathhouse, the vampire graves of 1732, and Svyatogor. 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 #dziady #slavichalloween #slavicmythology #halloween #daysofthedead #forefatherseve #sleepstory #bedtimestory #sleepstoriesforadults #fallasleepfast #insomnia #folklore #history #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. 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 Anzu steals the Tablet of Destinies while its owner is in the bath, and that is the best opening of any story in Mesopotamian literature. The most powerful object in this whole world, the thing that makes whatever you say become true, goes out of the door in the talons of a lion headed eagle, and everything stops. Tonight is the theft, the three gods who said no, the young god who said yes, the arrows that turned back in the air, and the mountain. 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 4:06 The Bird 11:24 The Bath 16:10 Silence 21:34 Nobody Volunteers 28:00 The One Who Went 34:29 The Arrows That Turned Back 41:34 What the Clever One Said 44:53 Wing to Wing 48:39 Taking It Back 53:18 The Names 59:58 The Turtle 1:07:03 The Mountain Quiet 1:09:30 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. #anzu #sleepstory #mesopotamia #ninurta #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. 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 Nergal and Ereshkigal is the story of the queen of the underworld, who never goes anywhere, and the one god who went down to her twice. Tonight is the banquet she could not attend, the minister who climbed the long stair, the god who would not stand up, the fourteen doorkeepers, the six days behind a shut door, the threat that emptied heaven, and an ending that is far gentler than it has any right to be. 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 4:38 The Party She Could Not Come To 12:08 Everybody Stood Up 17:42 The One Who Did Not Stand 23:28 Fourteen at the Gates 31:31 The First Telling 36:37 Do Not Sit Down 42:18 Six Days 47:13 The Seventh Morning 52:28 Find Him 57:41 What She Said She Would Do 1:03:43 He Came Back 1:09:57 The Two Tellings 1:15:56 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. #ereshkigal #sleepstory #mesopotamia #nergal #bedtimestoriesforadults #deepsleep #sleep #insomnia #calm #mythology

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 Slavic 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. Tonight is a winter night in the forest, a stove somewhere behind you, one gusli string touched and let ring over a low bowed drone, with wind over open snow underneath the whole time. Our Slavic season opens this month with two specials, and on Halloween night, Saturday October 31, the first of them, Dziady, plays live for eleven hours. Its twelve nights begin on Sunday, November 15. 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=1VCkAi_y6wYMore 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. 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 Adapa was offered eternal life and said no thank you, and people have been arguing about why for a hundred and fifty years. He was a fisherman at Eridu, the oldest city there was, and he was clever in a way nobody has ever been clever since. Tonight is the broken wing of the south wind, the summons to heaven, the advice that saved him and cost him everything, the bread and the water on the table, and the laugh at the end that nobody has ever fully explained. 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 4:11 Eridu 11:55 The Seven Who Came Out of the Water 18:44 The Man Who Baked the Bread 24:01 The Broad Sea 28:46 The Word That Broke a Wing 33:51 Seven Days 42:34 What His Father Told Him 48:33 The Gate 53:53 Before the Sky God 1:00:30 The Bread of Life 1:06:14 Kind or Cruel 1:13:35 The Empty Boat 1:20:52 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. #adapa #sleepstory #mesopotamia #eridu #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. 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 Mesopotamian 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 Welcome0:00:35 The Enuma Elish, the Babylonian Creation1:20:59 Enheduanna, the First Named Author2:33:09 Gilgamesh, Part One3:44:57 Gilgamesh, Part Two5:03:45 Gilgamesh, Part Three6:15:45 Etana and the Eagle7:23:14 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=ZB7cE79sNEIMore stories and first looks at new seasons: gildenmyth.com