Explore every episode of the podcast The Sleeping Almanac: Sleep Stories for Adults from Myth and Fairy Tale
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| Anunnaki · The Real Story the Tablets Tell · 3 Hour Sleep Story | 11 Sep 2026 | 03:00:01 | |
You have heard the word Anunnaki. Tonight we go all the way back to the clay the word was first pressed into. A slow, calm 3 hour Mesopotamian mythology sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. The oldest written stories on earth, told the way the tablets actually tell them: the gods who dug the rivers and went on strike, the making of people from clay and river water, a world so loud the gods could not sleep, a flood told plainly and resolved gently, the sages who came out of the sea, and a list of kings who reigned for impossible thousands of years, with the small quiet true thing that explains those numbers waiting in the tenth chapter.
Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes.
Chapters
0:00 Welcome · The Lamp Is Lit
7:23 The Tablet House
17:45 Before Anyone Was Made
24:07 The Ones Who Carried the Baskets
28:32 The Night They Burned Their Tools
33:50 The God Who Had Intelligence
40:32 The Noise of a Full World
44:57 The Voice in the Reed Wall
49:50 Seven Days and Seven Nights
56:26 The Sages Who Came Out of the Water
1:07:58 The Kings Who Reigned in Thousands
1:17:01 What the Tablets Were For
1:26:00 Goodnight. And the Lamp in the Tablet House
1:30:43 Calm music to drift off
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| The Odyssey · The Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis · 3 Hour Sleep Story | 10 Sep 2026 | 03:00:01 | |
Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight the ship must pass the three great dangers of the middle sea. First the meadow of the singing women, the Sirens, whose song no sailor is meant to survive. Then the narrow water between the cave and the whirlpool, Scylla and Charybdis, where the strait itself takes its toll. And last the green island of the sun and its forbidden cattle, and the storm that answers a broken oath. A grave and gentle telling for sleep, every danger named softly and never shown, 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. CHAPTERS Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/xnPpfnBDTnE 🎙️ Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release. | |||
| The Odyssey · The Night of Old Friends · 3 Hour Sleep Story | 06 Sep 2026 | 03:00:01 | |
Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight the travelers sail to the quiet edge of the world, where the living may speak once more with the friends they have lost. A blind prophet gives the way home, a mother is met again, and the great names of the old war come softly out of the mist to talk a while by a small fire. A tender, grave telling for sleep, calm enough to drift to and rich enough to stay awake for if you choose. Close your eyes. Let the fire on the beach burn low. There is nothing to do now but listen and rest. CHAPTERS Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/x4UEGwuLzvs 🎙️ Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release. | |||
| The Odyssey · The Almost Home · 3 Hour Sleep Story | 05 Sep 2026 | 03:00:01 | |
Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight the wind king gives a gift no one should open, home comes so close the watch fires can be seen, and a gentle enchantress on a green island keeps the weary travelers a whole slow year. This is the tale of the bag of winds and the house of Circe told for sleep, calm enough to drift to and rich enough to stay awake for if you choose. Close your eyes. Let the fire on the beach burn low. There is nothing to do now but listen and rest. CHAPTERS Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/1eHamdubluU 🎙️ Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release. | |||
| The Odyssey · Nobody and the Giant · 3 Hour Sleep Story | 03 Sep 2026 | 03:00:01 | |
Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight the ships come to the island of the one eyed giant, and a clever captain saves his men with a cup of dark wine and a single word for a name. This is the tale of the Cyclops told gently for sleep, the guest law and the giant who broke it, the name that was No One, and the quiet escape under the warm wool of the rams at morning. Calm enough to drift to and rich enough to stay awake for if you choose. Close your eyes. Let the fire on the beach burn low. There is nothing to do now but listen and rest. CHAPTERS Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/dblcjNoUJkg 🎙️ Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release. | |||
| The Odyssey · The City Taken by a Story · 3 Hour Sleep Story | 01 Sep 2026 | 03:00:01 | |
Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight the story is the oldest trick ever told. Ten long years the war for Troy would not end, until one restless mind thought of a horse of wood and a city that opened its own gates. This is the fall of Troy told gently, from the singer at the fire to the ships turning at last for home, calm enough to drift to and rich enough to stay awake for if you choose. Close your eyes. Let the fire on the beach burn low. There is nothing to do now but listen and rest. CHAPTERS Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/jXJmzh-Nceo 🎙️ Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release. | |||
| The Odyssey · The Wrong Shore · 3 Hour Sleep Story | 30 Aug 2026 | 03:00:01 | |
Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight we open Season Four, the Odyssey, at the very beginning of the road to Troy. Long before the wooden horse, before the ten long years, a thousand ships put out to sea for the first time and made land on the wrong shore. This is the story of the false start, the wounded king, and the strange oracle that said the one who dealt the wound was the only one who could heal it. A slow, gentle telling for sleep, calm enough to drift to and rich enough to stay awake for if you choose. Close your eyes. Let the fire on the beach burn low. There is nothing to do now but listen and rest. CHAPTERS Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/gAJ0kDVRpL8 🎙️ Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release. | |||
| The Moon Princess Kaguya · The Original Tale · 3 Hour Full Moon Sleep Story to Fall Asleep | 29 Aug 2026 | 03:00:01 | |
A slow, calm 3 hour sleep story for the night of the full moon, to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight the storyteller reaches the last page of the old book, and she has saved it for this exact night: The Moon Princess, from The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, the tenth century Japanese story sometimes called the oldest fairy tale of all. An old bamboo cutter finds a stalk glowing in his grove, and inside it a princess small enough to rest in his two hands. She grows into a lady so gentle that five grand suitors are set five impossible tasks and refused without one unkind word, an emperor becomes her friend by letter, and when the moon at last sends its shining procession down for her, she leaves behind a letter and a gift, carried to the summit of the highest mountain in Japan. Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. There is a farewell in it, but it is the gentlest farewell in any storybook, told with far more moonlight than sorrow. There is nothing here to fear. You do not have to watch. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning. Episode 12 of 12 · The Storybook Season Where this sits: Part 12 of 12 in The Storybook Season, one storyteller, one lantern, and one complete famous tale each night, each told from its original source. Tonight, the princess the moon calls home, told on the night of the full moon, the last tale of the season. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin. Chapters: Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac 🕯 Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release. | |||
| The Snow Queen · The Original Fairy Tale · 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep | 27 Aug 2026 | 03:00:01 | |
A slow, calm 3 hour fairy tale sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight the storyteller opens the old book to The Snow Queen, Andersen's long winter tale of 1844. A troll's mirror shatters into splinters finer than dust, one splinter finds a boy named Kay, and his friend Gerda simply sets out to bring him home. Her road passes roses growing along a roof gutter, a robber girl who lends her own white reindeer, and a wise woman near the top of the world who says the truest thing in the whole story: the girl's own gentle heart is already power enough. The ice palace gives way to patience, not to force, and two friends walk home into summer. Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. There is deep ice in it, but the whole story is about the thaw, and nearly every stranger Gerda meets ends up helping her on her way. There is nothing here to fear. You do not have to watch. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning. Episode 11 of 12 · The Storybook Season Where this sits: Part 11 of 12 in The Storybook Season, one storyteller, one lantern, and one complete famous tale each night, each told from its original source. Tonight, the long walk north, and the thaw at the end of it. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin. Chapters: Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac 🕯 Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com 🌙 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 Wizard of Oz · The Original Story · 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep | 23 Aug 2026 | 03:00:01 | |
A slow, calm 3 hour fairy tale sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight the storyteller opens the old book to The Wizard of Oz, as L. Frank Baum wrote it in 1900. The shoes are silver in the original, the Good Witch of the North leaves a kiss on Dorothy's forehead that keeps her safe on the whole road, the Emerald City hands out green spectacles at its gates, a field of poppies lies deep with sleep, and there is a small quiet country made entirely of china. The road is yellow brick and the pace is a walking pace, all the way there and all the way home. Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. There are witches in it, but the ones we walk beside are kind, and the road stays even underfoot the whole way. There is nothing here to fear. You do not have to watch. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning. Episode 10 of 12 · The Storybook Season Where this sits: Part 10 of 12 in The Storybook Season, one storyteller, one lantern, and one complete famous tale each night, each told from its original source. Tonight, the yellow brick road at a bedtime pace. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin. Chapters: Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac 🕯 Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com 🌙 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. | |||
| Mulan · The Original Ballad · 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep | 20 Aug 2026 | 03:00:01 | |
A slow, calm 3 hour storybook sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight the storyteller opens the old book to the Ballad of Mulan, the short poem from the Northern Wei dynasty that began the whole legend, told long and slow. A daughter at her loom hears the army lists calling her father's name, so she buys a horse at one market, a saddle at another, a bridle at a third, a long whip at the fourth, and rides north in his place. Twelve years she serves, and her comrades never know. When the emperor offers her any reward she can name, she asks only for a swift horse home, and the ballad closes with its famous gentle riddle, two hares running side by side through the grass. Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. There is a war at the far edges of it, but it stays at the edges; the story keeps its eyes on the loom, the river, the mountain road, and the long ride home. There is nothing here to fear. You do not have to watch. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning. Episode 9 of 12 · The Storybook Season Where this sits: Part 9 of 12 in The Storybook Season, one storyteller, one lantern, and one complete famous tale each night, each told from its original source. Tonight, the daughter who rode twelve years in her father's place. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin. Chapters: Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac 🕯 Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release. | |||
| The Odyssey · The Gathering of the War · The Untold Story Before Troy · 3 Hour Sleep Story | 18 Aug 2026 | 03:00:01 | |
A slow, calm 3 hour Greek mythology sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Everyone knows the ten years at Troy. Tonight is the story just before it, the half forgotten season when the war was still only a rumor crossing the water. A king plows his own field with salt to escape an oath he invented himself, and loses the one contest of wits he ever plainly lost. A goddess hides her son, the greatest warrior the world will ever know, in the last place anyone would think to look, among a king's daughters, in a borrowed dress. A peddler comes ashore with silks and a single spear, and one horn note undoes all the hiding in a heartbeat. And at the end, in one small bay, a thousand ships gather and wait for nothing in the world but a wind. This is Part 2 of 2. If you have not yet heard how Odysseus himself came to be, that story, The Making of Odysseus, is on this channel too. Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. A war is coming for these men, but it stays far off all night, on the far side of the sea. Not one sword is raised in this telling. There are only farewells, disguises, clever men being clever, and ships gathering on quiet water. You do not have to watch. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning. A Sleeping Almanac special · Part 2 of 2 · The full Odyssey season continues on this channel Chapters (real times, computed from the build audio, see status note above) 🕯 Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com This is a bedtime story for adults, made for sleep, insomnia, relaxation, and quiet nights when the mind will not switch off. Drawn from Homer's Iliad, including the Catalogue of Ships, Apollodorus' Bibliotheca, Hyginus' Fabulae, and the summary of the lost Cypria. These are retellings. Where the old stories turn toward fear or cruelty, we turn gently toward comfort, choosing the telling that serves a calm night. New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday at 6pm ET. 🌙 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. Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/v1sADE-DYKg #SleepStory #TheOdyssey #GreekMythology #Odysseus | |||
| Robin Hood · The Original Legend · 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep | 18 Aug 2026 | 03:00:01 | |
A slow, calm 3 hour storybook sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight the storyteller opens the old book to Robin Hood, from the oldest ballads and the Gest of Robyn Hode, the greenwood as it always was. A tall stranger met on a narrow bridge with a quarterstaff, a friar who carries an outlaw across a river and back again, a golden arrow won in plain sight, a poor knight lent four hundred pounds and his dignity with it, and a king who comes to the greenwood to see for himself. Sherwood at dusk is one of the calmest places any story has ever kept. Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. There are arrows in it, but they are aimed only at willow wands and targets, and nobody in the greenwood goes to sleep hungry or afraid. There is nothing here to fear. You do not have to watch. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning. Episode 8 of 12 · The Storybook Season Where this sits: Part 8 of 12 in The Storybook Season, one storyteller, one lantern, and one complete famous tale each night, each told from its original source. Tonight, the greenwood and its gentleman outlaw. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin. Chapters: Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac 🕯 Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com 🌙 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. | |||
| Sleeping Beauty · The Original Fairy Tale · 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep | 16 Aug 2026 | 03:00:01 | |
A slow, calm 3 hour fairy tale sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight the storyteller opens the old book to Sleeping Beauty the old way, from Perrault and from the Grimms' Briar Rose. A wish granted by the water, gifts spoken over a golden cradle, one spindle left in a high tower room, and then the enchantment the tale is named for: the whole castle falls asleep together, the cooks and the horses and the doves and the fire on the hearth, and a hedge of briars rises to guard the quiet. A hundred years pass in that stillness, and when the time is finally right, the hedge blooms and opens all by itself. Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. The spindle does its small work early, and after that the entire story is one long, protected sleep, which is rather the point. There is nothing here to fear. You do not have to watch. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning. Episode 7 of 12 · The Storybook Season Where this sits: Part 7 of 12 in The Storybook Season, one storyteller, one lantern, and one complete famous tale each night, each told from its original source. Tonight, the castle that slept for a hundred years. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin. Chapters: Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac 🕯 Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com 🌙 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. | |||
| Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac | Season Four, The Odyssey | 15 Aug 2026 | 00:00:46 | |
The world's oldest stories, told slowly enough to fall asleep to. The Sleeping Almanac is three hour sleep stories for anyone who lies down at night and cannot switch the day off. No music that swells, no sudden voices, no reason to open your eyes. Just one calm voice and a story old enough that people have been falling asleep to it for three thousand years. Four seasons so far. Norse gods. Egyptian nights. Old fairy tales retold long and slow. And Season Four, the Odyssey, told across twelve nights from the wrong shore to a bed carved from a living olive tree. New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday night. Everything we make: gildenmyth.com 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com | |||
| Alice in Wonderland · The Original Story · 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep | 13 Aug 2026 | 03:00:01 | |
A slow, calm 3 hour fairy tale sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight the storyteller opens the old book to Alice in Wonderland, as Lewis Carroll first told it in 1865. A golden afternoon on a riverbank, a white rabbit with a waistcoat pocket and a watch inside it, a fall so long and slow it feels like floating, and a tea table where the dormouse sleeps peacefully through everything. The whole adventure is a dream from its first page to its last, which makes it the safest adventure there is, and at the end the dreamer simply wakes on the same warm bank, with her head in her sister's lap. Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. It is all a dream on a riverbank, and the story knows it, so nothing in it can follow you anywhere except into sleep. There is nothing here to fear. You do not have to watch. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning. Episode 6 of 12 · The Storybook Season Where this sits: Part 6 of 12 in The Storybook Season, one storyteller, one lantern, and one complete famous tale each night, each told from its original source. Tonight, a dream on a riverbank. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin. Chapters: Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac 🕯 Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com 🌙 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. | |||
| Peter Pan · The Original Story · 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep | 11 Aug 2026 | 03:00:01 | |
A slow, calm 3 hour fairy tale sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight the storyteller opens the old book to Peter Pan, as J. M. Barrie wrote him in 1911. A nursery at number fourteen, a large gentle dog for a nurse, a boy who comes back for his lost shadow, and directions no map has ever improved: second star to the right, and straight on till morning. There are mermaids in a lagoon, a patient Never bird on her floating nest, a little house built around a sleeping girl, and a window kept open at the end, because some windows always are. Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. There is a pirate in it, but tonight he is more pocket watch than menace, and the nursery window stays open the whole time. There is nothing here to fear. You do not have to watch. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning. Episode 5 of 12 · The Storybook Season Where this sits: Part 5 of 12 in The Storybook Season, one storyteller, one lantern, and one complete famous tale each night, each told from its original source. Tonight, the boy who would not grow up. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin. Chapters: Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac 🕯 Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com 🌙 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. | |||
| Cinderella · The Original Fairy Tale · 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep | 09 Aug 2026 | 03:00:01 | |
A slow, calm 3 hour fairy tale sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight the storyteller opens the old book to Cinderella, exactly as Charles Perrault first set it down in 1697. A pumpkin hollowed out by a godmother's hand, six mice turned to six grey horses, a whiskered rat for a coachman, six lizards for footmen, and not one ball but two. The slipper is glass, it fits in front of everyone, and the story ends not in punishment but in forgiveness, with places found at court for both sisters. Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. There are unkind sisters in it, but the unkindness stays quiet, and the ending forgives them, which is how Perrault himself chose to close it. There is nothing here to fear. You do not have to watch. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning. Episode 4 of 12 · The Storybook Season Where this sits: Part 4 of 12 in The Storybook Season, one storyteller, one lantern, and one complete famous tale each night, each told from its original source. Tonight, the slipper of glass and the kindness at the end. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin. Chapters: Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac 🕯 Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com 🌙 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 Little Mermaid · The Original Fairy Tale · 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep | 06 Aug 2026 | 03:00:01 | |
A slow, calm 3 hour fairy tale sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight the storyteller turns to Hans Christian Andersen's little mermaid, the original telling of 1837. Far out where the water is blue as the bluest cornflower, the sea king's youngest daughter tends a garden shaped like the sun and listens to her grandmother's stories of the world above. Merfolk live three hundred years, ships drift overhead like slow clouds, and on her fifteenth birthday she rises through the quiet water to see the lights for herself. It is a tale of longing told gently, and it ends the way Andersen ended it, among the daughters of the air, with patience and quiet hope. Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. The old tale carries sorrow in it, but we keep to its gentlest current, and no one is lost in the telling. There is nothing here to fear. You do not have to watch. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning. Episode 3 of 12 · The Storybook Season Where this sits: Part 3 of 12 in The Storybook Season, one storyteller, one lantern, and one complete famous tale each night, each told from its original source. Tonight, the sea's youngest daughter. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin. Chapters: Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac 🕯 Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com 🌙 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. | |||
| Aladdin · The Original 1001 Nights Tale · 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep | 04 Aug 2026 | 03:00:01 | |
A slow, calm 3 hour fairy tale sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight the lamp is lit again and the storyteller opens the old book to Aladdin, told the way it was first told three centuries ago, long before any film. A tailor's son in a city in China, a stranger who calls him nephew, a cold fire on a mountainside, and not one genie but two, one in an old ring and one in a battered brass lamp. There is a garden where the fruit is made of jewels, a princess named Badroulbadour, forty basins of gold, and a palace built in a single quiet night. Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. There is a scheming magician in it, but he is gently outwitted long before the end, and every door he closes is opened again. There is nothing here to fear. You do not have to watch. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning. Episode 2 of 12 · The Storybook Season Where this sits: Part 2 of 12 in The Storybook Season, one storyteller, one lantern, and one complete famous tale each night, each told from its original source. Tonight, the boy and the lamp, from the oldest telling. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin. Chapters: Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac 🕯 Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com 🌙 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. | |||
| 1001 Nights · Scheherazade · The Original Arabian Nights Tale · 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep | 02 Aug 2026 | 03:00:01 | |
A slow, calm 3 hour Arabian Nights sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight the lantern is lit for the first time, and the first tale in the old book is the storyteller's own. A quiet city at dusk, a king who has forgotten how to rest, and the vizier's daughter, Scheherazade, who volunteers to sit with him and tell a story that is never quite finished by dawn. Her little sister asks for the first tale, an ebony horse rises over the roofs of the world, and a thousand nights and one begin as gently as this one. Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. There is a grieving king in it, but no harm comes to anyone in the telling, and the storyteller always knows exactly what she is doing. There is nothing here to fear. You do not have to watch. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning. Episode 1 of 12 · The Storybook Season Where this sits: Part 1 of 12 in The Storybook Season, one storyteller, one lantern, and one complete famous tale each night, each told from its original source. Tonight, the tale that holds all the others. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin. Chapters: Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac 🕯 Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com 🌙 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. | |||
| Egyptian Mythology Sleep Story · The Gathering of the Gods (Episode 12) | 30 Jul 2026 | 03:00:01 | |
A slow, calm Egyptian mythology sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep, and the gentle close of our long Egyptian journey. Tonight we do not tell a new story. We gather them all, one last quiet walk back through the whole company of the gods, from the first sunrise to the golden lady who waits in the west. This is a bedtime story for adults, made for sleep, insomnia, and quiet nights when the mind will not switch off. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. There is nothing new to follow tonight, only the warm remembering of stories already known. Just let it drift over you. Episode 12 of 12 · Egyptian Mythology · Season Finale · The Sleeping Almanac. Where this sits: Part 12 of 12, the close of the Egyptian cycle. Across the season we have told one continuous story, from the first light to the golden lady. Tonight gathers the whole of it. Each episode stands on its own, and in order they tell one long story. Chapters 0:00 Welcome 3:25 The Gathering 9:18 The First Light 16:11 The Eye and the Days 21:37 The Green King 27:19 The Passing 32:51 The Faithful Search 38:16 The Bright Heir 43:38 The Gentle Judgment 49:12 The Night Boat 54:40 The Golden Lady 1:00:10 What the Whole Story Meant 1:07:33 Goodnight. And the Serpent at the Edge of Dawn 1:10:58 Calm music to drift off Drawn from the ancient Egyptians themselves across thousands of years, from the Pyramid Texts and the Coffin Texts to the Book of the Dead, from the temple walls to the Greek writer Plutarch. These are retellings, told gently, always choosing the telling that serves a calm night. New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Everything in one place: https://gildenmyth.com 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (script research, narration, visuals) under the direction of a human editor. Every episode is researched, reviewed, and revised before publication. | |||
| Egyptian Mythology Sleep Story · Hathor the Golden Lady (Episode 11) | 28 Jul 2026 | 03:00:01 | |
A slow, calm Egyptian mythology sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight, the warmest company the old Egyptians knew, the golden goddess Hathor, the lady of love and music and gladness, the gentle mother of the starry sky, and the kind welcome waiting at the end of every road. This is a bedtime story for adults, made for sleep, insomnia, and quiet nights when the mind will not switch off. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. This is the gentlest night of the season, made only of warmth. Just let it drift over you. Episode 11 of 12 · Egyptian Mythology · The Sleeping Almanac. Where this sits: Part 11 of 12 in the Egyptian cycle, one continuous telling of the gods in story order, from the first sunrise onward. Tonight, the golden goddess of love and music, the gentlest face in all the company of the gods. Each episode stands on its own, and in order they tell one long story. Chapters 0:00 Welcome 3:21 The Golden One 9:10 The Lady of Music 15:06 The Dance and the Gladness 20:50 The Face of Love 26:46 The Great Cow of Heaven 32:55 The Lady of the Sycamore 39:13 The Seven Gentle Ones 45:01 The Gentle Face That Calmed the Fire 51:14 The Mirror and the Gold 57:27 The Lady of the West 1:03:26 What the Golden One Meant 1:09:24 Goodnight. And the Serpent at the Edge of Dawn 1:12:18 Calm music to drift off Drawn from the ancient Egyptians themselves, above all from Hathor's great golden temple at Dendera and the old hymns of the Lady of Gold. These are retellings. Where the sources fall silent, we fill the quiet gently and in her own warm spirit, choosing the telling that serves a calm night. New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Everything in one place: https://gildenmyth.com 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (script research, narration, visuals) under the direction of a human editor. Every episode is researched, reviewed, and revised before publication. | |||
| Egyptian Mythology Sleep Story · The Boat of a Million Years (Episode 10) | 26 Jul 2026 | 03:00:01 | |
A slow, calm Egyptian mythology sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight, the voyage the sun itself makes every night: down into the country of the dark in the great Boat of a Million Years, through the twelve quiet hours, carried by a faithful crew, renewed in the deepest hour, and lifted up new and golden at dawn. This is a bedtime story for adults, made for sleep, insomnia, and quiet nights when the mind will not switch off. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. The night is told as a safe passage you are carried through, to a morning that has never once failed to come. Just let it drift over you. Episode 10 of 12 · Egyptian Mythology · The Sleeping Almanac. Where this sits: Part 10 of 12 in the Egyptian cycle, one continuous telling of the gods in story order, from the first sunrise onward. Tonight, the sun makes its nightly voyage through the dark and rises again at dawn. Each episode stands on its own, and in order they tell one long story. Chapters Drawn from the ancient Egyptians themselves, from the Amduat and the old books of the night that charted the sun's dark voyage hour by hour. These are retellings. Where the old books turn toward fear, we turn gently toward comfort, choosing the telling that serves a calm night. New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Everything in one place: https://gildenmyth.com 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (script research, narration, visuals) under the direction of a human editor. Every episode is researched, reviewed, and revised before publication. | |||
| Egyptian Mythology Sleep Story · The Weighing of the Heart (Episode 9) | 23 Jul 2026 | 03:00:01 | |
A slow, calm Egyptian mythology sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight, the gentlest journey the Egyptians ever imagined, a single heart coming home: the calm hall of judgment, the kind gods who guide the soul, the feather of truth upon the scale, and the green fields beyond. This is a bedtime story for adults, made for sleep, insomnia, and quiet nights when the mind will not switch off. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. It is the kindest vision of the end ever dreamed, told to comfort. Just let it drift over you. Episode 9 of 12 · Egyptian Mythology · The Sleeping Almanac. Where this sits: Part 9 of 12 in the Egyptian cycle, one continuous telling of the gods in story order, from the first sunrise onward. Tonight, the gentle judgment of the heart in the hall of the dead. Each episode stands on its own, and in order they tell one long story. Chapters 0:00 Welcome 3:19 The Last Doorway 9:19 The Hall of the Two Truths 15:14 The Gentle Guide 21:17 The Great Scale 25:59 The Feather of Truth 33:33 The Telling of a Life 41:05 The Heart Laid on the Scale 46:41 The Balance Holds 52:34 The Words of Thoth 58:16 The Green Field Beyond 1:04:12 What the Weighing Meant 1:10:17 Goodnight. And the Serpent at the Edge of Dawn 1:14:39 Calm music to drift off Drawn from the ancient Egyptians themselves and from the Book of the Dead, their great guide for the soul's journey beyond. These are retellings. Where the old book turns toward fear, we turn gently toward comfort, choosing the telling that serves a calm night. New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Everything in one place: https://gildenmyth.com 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (script research, narration, visuals) under the direction of a human editor. Every episode is researched, reviewed, and revised before publication. | |||
| Egyptian Mythology Sleep Story · The Contendings of Horus and Set (Episode 8) | 21 Jul 2026 | 03:00:01 | |
A slow, calm Egyptian mythology sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight, the long patient contest for the throne of Egypt, as the grown Horus, son of Osiris, claims his father's crown from his uncle Set, and justice, after years of trials and a court of the gods, is gently done. This is a bedtime story for adults, made for sleep, insomnia, and quiet nights when the mind will not switch off. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. There is a contest in it, but no horror, and it ends in a crowning and a reconciliation. Just let it drift over you. Episode 8 of 12 · Egyptian Mythology · The Sleeping Almanac. Where this sits: Part 8 of 12 in the Egyptian cycle, one continuous telling of the gods in story order, from the first sunrise onward. Tonight, the grown Horus wins his father's throne from Set. Each episode stands on its own, and in order they tell one long story. Chapters 0:00 Welcome 3:18 The Child Grown 8:58 The Tribunal of the Gods 14:55 The Long Delay 22:14 The Counsel of the Wise 27:59 The Clever Word of Isis 34:05 The Contests Begin 41:19 The Long Breath Beneath the Water 46:51 The Race of the Stone Boats 52:13 The Eye Made Whole 57:15 The Word from the Land of the Dead 1:04:42 The Crowning of Horus and the Place of Set 1:12:08 Goodnight. And the Serpent at the Edge of Dawn 1:16:37 Calm music to drift off Drawn from the ancient Egyptians themselves and from one of the great old papyri that preserved this long contest, the Chester Beatty Papyrus. These are retellings. Where the old source turns rough, we keep the dignified heart of it, choosing the telling that serves a calm night. New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Everything in one place: https://gildenmyth.com 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (script research, narration, visuals) under the direction of a human editor. Every episode is researched, reviewed, and revised before publication. | |||
| Egyptian Mythology Sleep Story · Isis and the Scattered King (Episode 7) | 19 Jul 2026 | 03:00:01 | |
A slow, calm Egyptian mythology sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight, the tender story of Isis, the faithful queen, and her long search for her lost king Osiris, across the whole world and even into death, and how her love gathered what was scattered and made the broken whole again. This is a bedtime story for adults, made for sleep, insomnia, and quiet nights when the mind will not switch off. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. Every sorrow in it is answered by love. Just let it drift over you. Episode 7 of 12 · Egyptian Mythology · The Sleeping Almanac. Where this sits: Part 7 of 12 in the Egyptian cycle, one continuous telling of the gods in story order, from the first sunrise onward. Tonight, Isis gathers the scattered king, and Horus is conceived. Each episode stands on its own, and in order they tell one long story. Chapters 0:00 Welcome 3:21 The Search Begins 9:40 The Word of the Children 15:41 The Tree in the Far King's Hall 21:47 The Quiet Nurse 28:03 The Pillar Given 34:09 The Voyage Home 40:37 The Scattering 46:51 The Gathering 53:27 The Making Whole 59:51 The Wings of Isis 1:06:02 What Isis Meant 1:12:17 Goodnight. And the Serpent at the Edge of Dawn 1:17:20 Calm music to drift off Drawn from the ancient Egyptians themselves, from the old temple laments of Isis and Nephthys, and from the Greek writer Plutarch, who preserved the fullest account of the great queen's search. These are retellings. Where the ancient sources fall silent or disagree, we fill the gaps gently and in their own spirit, choosing the telling that serves a calm night. New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Everything in one place: https://gildenmyth.com 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (script research, narration, visuals) under the direction of a human editor. Every episode is researched, reviewed, and revised before publication. | |||
| The Odyssey · The Making of Odysseus · The Untold Story Before the Voyage · 3 Hour Sleep Story | 18 Jul 2026 | 03:00:01 | |
A slow, calm 3 hour Greek mythology sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Everyone knows the voyage. Tonight is the story before the story: the making of Odysseus himself. A small goat island called Ithaca, a grandfather on a mountain who names a baby for trouble, a boar hunt that leaves a famous scar, the cleverest oath ever sworn in a crowded hall, a bride who answers a whole road with the fall of her veil, and a marriage bed built around a living olive tree. And at the end, the one trick he could not talk his way out of, and a sail waiting at the edge of morning. If the Odyssey has found its way back into your world this summer, this is where the wanderer truly begins. By the last chapter you will know the man far better than the voyage alone could ever show you. Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. Storms are coming for this man, but they stay far away all night. Nothing in this story will startle you. You do not have to follow it. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning. A Sleeping Almanac special · Part 1 of 2 · The full Odyssey season arrives this fall Chapters Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/CcE8PpGT3FE This is a bedtime story for adults, made for sleep, insomnia, relaxation, and quiet nights when the mind will not switch off. Drawn from Homer's Odyssey and the oldest Greek sources: the naming and the boar hunt from the Odyssey itself, the oath and the courtship from Apollodorus, the feigned madness from Hyginus, and Penelope's veil from Pausanias. These are retellings. Where the old stories turn toward fear or cruelty, we turn gently toward comfort, choosing the telling that serves a calm night. New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday. 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (script research, narration, visuals) under the direction of a human editor. Every episode is researched, reviewed, and revised before publication. | |||
| Egyptian Mythology Sleep Story · The Death of Osiris (Episode 6) | 16 Jul 2026 | 03:00:01 | |
A slow, calm Egyptian mythology sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight, the gentle and tender story of how the good green king Osiris passed out of the seen world, a brother in shadow, a beautiful chest, and a river that carried the king gently away, told softly as a seed going into the dark to rise, never as a loss. This is a bedtime story for adults, made for sleep, insomnia, and quiet nights when the mind will not switch off. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. There is nothing in it to fear. Just let it drift over you. Episode 6 of 12 · Egyptian Mythology · The Sleeping Almanac. Where this sits: Part 6 of 12 in the Egyptian cycle, one continuous telling of the gods in story order, from the first sunrise onward. Tonight, the green king passes gently from the world. Each episode stands on its own, and in order they tell one long story. Chapters 0:00 Welcome 3:15 The Shadow at the Edge of the Feast 9:58 The Quiet Gathering 16:09 The Taking of the Measure 22:37 The Beautiful Chest 29:15 The Banquet 35:22 The Game 41:35 The King Lies Down 47:49 The River Takes Him 53:55 The Far Shore 59:22 The Tree by the Sea 1:05:18 What the Death of Osiris Meant 1:12:07 Goodnight. And the Serpent at the Edge of Dawn 1:16:56 Calm music to drift off Drawn from the ancient Egyptians themselves and from the Greek writer Plutarch, who preserved the fullest account of the green king's passing. These are retellings. Where the ancient sources fall silent or disagree, we fill the gaps gently and in their own spirit, choosing the telling that serves a calm night. New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Everything in one place: https://gildenmyth.com 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (script research, narration, visuals) under the direction of a human editor. Every episode is researched, reviewed, and revised before publication. | |||
| Egyptian Mythology Sleep Story · Osiris the Green King (Episode 5) | 14 Jul 2026 | 03:00:01 | |
A slow, calm Egyptian mythology sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight, the gentle story of Osiris, the green king, the kindest ruler the old world had known, who taught a wandering people to plant the grain and tend the vine and reigned over a long golden age of peace beside his queen Isis. This is a bedtime story for adults, made for sleep, insomnia, and quiet nights when the mind will not switch off. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. You do not have to follow it. Just let it drift over you. Episode 5 of 12 · Egyptian Mythology · The Sleeping Almanac. Where this sits: Part 5 of 12 in the Egyptian cycle, one continuous telling of the gods in story order, from the first sunrise onward. Tonight, Osiris the green king and his long golden reign. Each episode stands on its own, and in order they tell one long story. Chapters 0:00 Welcome 2:38 The King Who Was Born to Be Loved 10:23 A Land Without Settled Ways 18:28 The Teaching of the Grain 24:13 The Gift of the Vine 30:48 The Laws and the Gods 39:16 The Queen at His Side 47:01 The Green Crown 53:39 The Journey Out 1:02:23 The Land at Peace 1:10:16 The Brother in the Shadows 1:16:28 What the Green King Meant 1:23:52 Goodnight. And the Serpent at the Edge of Dawn 1:28:17 Calm music to drift off Drawn from the ancient Egyptians themselves, from the Pyramid Texts and the old temple traditions of Osiris, and from the Greek writer Plutarch, who preserved the fullest account of the green king's reign. These are retellings. Where the ancient sources fall silent or disagree, we fill the gaps gently and in their own spirit, choosing the telling that serves a calm night. New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Everything in one place: https://gildenmyth.com 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (script research, narration, visuals) under the direction of a human editor. Every episode is researched, reviewed, and revised before publication. | |||
| Egyptian Mythology Sleep Story · Thoth and the Five Stolen Days (Episode 4) | 12 Jul 2026 | 03:00:01 | |
A slow, calm Egyptian mythology sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight, the gentle tale of Thoth, the wise moon god, who won five new days for the world at a quiet game played by moonlight, the five days on which the great gods were born. This is a bedtime story for adults, made for sleep, insomnia, and quiet nights when the mind will not switch off. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. You do not have to follow it. Just let it drift over you. Episode 4 of 12 · Egyptian Mythology · The Sleeping Almanac. Chapters 0:00 Welcome 3:24 The Sky and the Earth in Love 12:13 The Jealous Decree 20:54 The Year That Had No Room 27:30 The Wisest of the Gods 38:15 The Moon and the Game 47:58 Playing for Light 56:58 The Making of Five Days 1:07:27 The First Day, Osiris 1:17:03 The Second Day and the Third 1:26:30 The Fourth Day and the Fifth 1:35:10 The Year Made Whole 1:45:29 Goodnight. And the Serpent at the Edge of Dawn 1:51:33 Calm music to drift off Drawn from the Egyptians themselves and from the Greek writer Plutarch, and from the real Egyptian calendar, which truly did keep five extra days each year as the birthdays of the gods. New episodes every Wednesday and Sunday. Everything in one place: https://thesleepingalmanac.com 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (script research, narration, visuals) under the direction of a human editor. Every episode is researched, reviewed, and revised before publication. | |||
| Egyptian Mythology Sleep Story · The Eye of Ra (Episode 3) | 09 Jul 2026 | 03:00:01 | |
A slow, calm Egyptian mythology sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight, the tale of the Eye of Ra, the lioness Sekhmet whose fury was calmed at last not by force but by a field flooded the color of dawn. This is a bedtime story for adults, made for sleep, insomnia, and quiet nights when the mind will not switch off. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. You do not have to follow it. Just let it drift over you. Episode 3 of 12 · Egyptian Mythology · The Sleeping Almanac. Chapters 0:00 Welcome 4:00 The Aging of the Sun 15:11 The Whispering of Mankind 24:18 The Council in the Night 33:58 The Eye Becomes the Lioness 43:44 The Going Forth 52:56 The Sun Repents 1:01:34 The Brewing in the Night 1:11:25 Seven Thousand Jars 1:21:45 The Lioness at Dawn 1:31:20 The Calming 1:39:00 Hathor Returns 1:48:02 Goodnight. And the Serpent at the Edge of Dawn 1:53:30 Calm music to drift off Drawn from one of the great Egyptian temple texts, the Book of the Heavenly Cow, carved on the walls of the tombs of the New Kingdom pharaohs. New episodes every Wednesday and Sunday. Everything in one place: https://thesleepingalmanac.com 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (script research, narration, visuals) under the direction of a human editor. Every episode is researched, reviewed, and revised before publication. | |||
| Egyptian Mythology Sleep Story · The Secret Name of Ra (Episode 2) | 07 Jul 2026 | 03:00:01 | |
A slow, calm Egyptian mythology sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight, the patient tale of how the goddess Isis won the secret name of Ra, the one hidden word that held all his power.
Episode 2 of 12 · Egyptian Mythology · The Sleeping Almanac.
New episodes every Wednesday and Sunday. Everything in one place: https://thesleepingalmanac.com 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (script research, narration, visuals) under the direction of a human editor. Every episode is researched, reviewed, and revised before publication. | |||
| Egyptian Mythology Sleep Story · Ra and the First Sunrise (Episode 1) | 05 Jul 2026 | 03:00:01 | |
A slow, calm Egyptian mythology sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight, the gentle tale of Ra and the very first sunrise, from the dark still waters before the world began. This is a bedtime story for adults, made for sleep, insomnia, and quiet nights when the mind will not switch off. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. You do not have to follow it. Just let it drift over you. Episode 1 of 12 · Egyptian Mythology · The Sleeping Almanac. Chapters 0:00 Welcome 4:29 The Waters That Had No Shore 14:14 The First Mound 24:36 The One Who Made Himself 34:22 The First Breath and the First Rain 44:01 The Lost Children and the Weeping Eye 52:35 Earth and Sky 1:02:36 The Sun Takes Its Throne 1:13:05 The Boat of Millions of Years 1:20:44 The Three Faces of the Sun 1:29:08 The Measuring of the Day 1:37:46 The Descent 1:47:30 Goodnight. And the Serpent at the Edge of Dawn 1:52:11 Calm music to drift off Drawn from the oldest Egyptian sources, the Pyramid Texts and the Heliopolitan creation tradition. New episodes every Wednesday and Sunday. Everything in one place: https://thesleepingalmanac.com 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (script research, narration, visuals) under the direction of a human editor. Every episode is researched, reviewed, and revised before publication. | |||
| Ragnarok · The Twilight of the Gods · Season 1 Finale | 02 Jul 2026 | 03:00:01 | |
Tonight, on the very last night of the old world, you walk with the gods toward their own ending. The wolf slips his chain. The serpent rises from the sea. The horn sounds. The fire comes. And then, very softly, a green earth at dawn, and a few gold chess pieces lying in the new grass. This is the season finale of The Sleeping Almanac — twelve nights inside Norse myth, ending exactly where the seers said it would end. And then, gently, beginning again. Settle in. Lower the lights. Goodnight. CHAPTERS EVERYTHING IN ONE PLACE Sources tonight from Vǫluspá and Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda. Goodnight, dear listener. Goodnight. 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com | |||
| Skadi · The Cold Mountain Bride | 30 Jun 2026 | 03:00:01 | |
Tonight, a giantess walks down out of the cold mountains to demand the gods make right what they have broken. She comes alone. She comes armed. And she will not leave until she has chosen a husband by his feet. This is the story of Skadi, the goddess of winter, of skis, of bows, of the high cold country. The story of her father killed by the gods. The story of her quiet impossible bargain. The story of a marriage that did not work, and a goddess who walked herself home. Settle in. Lower the lights. Goodnight. CHAPTERS EVERYTHING IN ONE PLACE Sources tonight from Skáldskaparmál, Gylfaginning, and Lokasenna. Goodnight, dear listener. Goodnight. 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com | |||
| Odin · The Mead of Poetry | 28 Jun 2026 | 01:38:02 | |
Tonight: how poetry came into the worlds. Of Kvasir, the wisest being ever made, brewed from the breath of every god in Asgard. Of his murder by two clever dwarves who poured his blood into three vessels and hid them. Of Suttungr the giant, who took the vessels into a hollow mountain and set his daughter Gunnlǫð to guard them. And of Odin, who walked east in disguise as Bǫlverkr the worker, drilled into the mountain in the shape of a snake, drank the mead in three long draughts, and flew home as an eagle to give poetry to the gods and to men. A 3 hour sleep story for adults, drawn from Snorri's Prose Edda and the Hávamál. Old north narration, calm pacing, ambient music. Made to drift into, not to follow. · Chapters · 00:00 Welcome · About The Sleeping Almanac · 3 hour sleep stories drawn from the world's old mythologies. New episodes every Wednesday and Sunday. Everything in one place: thesleepingalmanac.com · Disclosure · This story is narrated with a voice clone of the host, scored with AI generated ambient music, and illustrated with AI generated still images. The script is written by hand from the source texts. 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com | |||
| The Giant's Bride · Thor and the Theft of Mjǫllnir · 3 Hour Norse Sleep Story | 25 Jun 2026 | 03:00:01 | |
Tonight, the strongest of the gods wakes to an empty bed and an empty hand. Mjǫllnir, the hammer that holds the sky together, has been stolen in the night. Loki borrows Freyja's falcon cloak and flies east to Jǫtunheimr, where the giant king Þrymr is waiting on his high mound with a price for its return. The price is Freyja herself. Freyja refuses, the gods sit in council, and the only road forward is the one no one wants to take. Þórr is dressed in fine wheat linen and a bridal veil, Loki agrees to come as the handmaid, and the two of them ride east to a wedding feast in the cold hall of the giants. A bride who eats an entire ox. A quick tongue that has an answer for every strange thing. A veil that lifts just long enough for two burning eyes to be seen. And then the hammer brought out at last to bless the marriage, laid in the bride's lap, and the hand that closes around the haft. Let it carry you down into sleep. Chapters: Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac Sources: the Þrymskviða from the Poetic Edda (Codex Regius, 13th century Iceland), with chapter framing and Hávamál anchors drawn from the same manuscript tradition. Retold as an original written narrative. 🌙 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. | |||
| Thor and the World Serpent · Norse Mythology Sleep Story · 3 Hours | 22 Jun 2026 | 03:00:01 | |
Tonight, the strongest of the gods goes fishing for the end of the world. Þórr travels east to a giant's hall for a cauldron large enough to brew the sea, and before dawn he rows a small boat out past every fishing bank a man has ever known, into the deep water where the Serpent waits. He baits a line with the head of an ox and lets it down, and far below, the thing that circles the world takes the hook. A slow, strange story of a god and a monster meeting eye to eye, and the small old hand that cut the line and gave the world a little more time. Let it carry you down into sleep. Chapters: Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac Sources: the Poetic Edda (Hymiskviða) and Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda (Gylfaginning), with the fishing scene preserved on the Altuna and Gosforth picture stones, retold in an original written narrative. 🌙 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 Binding of Loki · Norse Mythology Sleep Story · 3 Hours | 18 Jun 2026 | 03:00:01 | |
Tonight, the feast in Ægir's hall by the sea, where the gods gathered to drink and one uninvited guest spoke every cruel and true thing he had ever held back. Of Bragi and Iðunn. Of Óðinn lowering his cup. Of Frigg, who heard at the table the name of the one responsible for her son's death. Then the flight to the high mountain. The hall with four doors. The salmon in the dark pool below the waterfall of Fránangr. The first fishing net the world had ever seen. And the cave with three stones, where a wife knelt with a wooden bowl raised above her husband's face for the rest of time, because what else was there for her to do. This is the Lokasenna and what came after. The hinge of the season. Everything in Norse mythology that follows, the slow tilt toward Ragnarǫk, begins on the night Sigyn first raised the bowl. Episode 7 of a complete twelve part season. Chapters: Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac 🎧 Follow the show 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 Sources: the Poetic Edda (the Lokasenna), the Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson, and the Vǫluspá, retold in an original written narrative. 🌙 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 Death of Baldr · Norse Mythology Sleep Story · 3 Hours | 15 Jun 2026 | 03:00:01 | |
Tonight, the brightest of the gods begins to dream of his own ending. Baldr, the most loved and the most gentle, wakes from dreams of death, and his mother Frigg walks the whole world asking every living thing to swear it will never harm him. Everything swears, except one small plant she passes by. A slow, sorrowful story of love, an overlooked thing, and a grief that even the gods cannot undo. Let it settle over you softly. Chapters: 0:00 Welcome 8:04 Chapter 1. The Dream That Baldr Had 15:29 Chapter 2. The Long Ride to Hel 18:50 Chapter 3. The Seeress Who Did Not Want To Speak 25:35 Chapter 4. Frigg's Long Walking 35:35 Chapter 5. The Sport of the Gods 40:53 Chapter 6. The Old Woman at Frigg's Door 45:57 Chapter 7. The Plant West of Valhǫll 51:33 Chapter 8. The Brother Who Could Not See 56:37 Chapter 9. The Throw 1:02:03 Chapter 10. The Greatest Ship in the World 1:13:13 Chapter 11. Hermóðr's Nine Nights 1:32:38 Chapter 12. Goodnight. And the Wolf at the Edge of Time. 1:46:27 Music to sleep by Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac New episodes every Wednesday and Sunday. Sources: the Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson (Gylfaginning) and the Poetic Edda (Vǫluspá and Baldrs draumar), retold in an original written narrative. 🌙 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 Theft of Iðunn's Apples · Norse Mythology Sleep Story · 3 Hours | 11 Jun 2026 | 03:00:06 | |
Tonight, the gods discover they can grow old. Iðunn keeps the apples that hold age away, and when Loki, cornered by a giant in eagle feathers, gives her up, the halls of the gods begin to gray and stiffen and slow. To undo it, Loki must fly north as a falcon and carry her home before the oldest of them forgets how to stand. A gentle story about time, and the quiet panic of losing it, told slowly enough to lose track of time yourself. Chapters: 0:00 Welcome 2:03 Chapter 1. The Hunger of Three Wanderers 10:08 Chapter 2. The Ox That Would Not Cook 17:06 Chapter 3. The Pole That Stuck 23:26 Chapter 4. The Oath Sworn in the Sky 31:16 Chapter 5. The Goddess of Apples 42:28 Chapter 6. The Story Loki Told 51:00 Chapter 7. The Wings of Þjazi 1:00:22 Chapter 8. The First Gray Hair 1:15:08 Chapter 9. The Falcon Cloak 1:23:08 Chapter 10. The Nut and the Fire 1:32:30 Chapter 11. The Daughter Who Came for Vengeance 1:45:28 Chapter 12. Goodnight. And the Wolf at the Edge of Time. 1:56:08 Music to sleep by Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac New episodes every Wednesday and Sunday. Sources: the Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson (Skáldskaparmál) and the skaldic poem Haustlǫng, retold in an original written narrative. 🌙 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 Binding of Fenrir · Norse Mythology Sleep Story · 3 Hours | 08 Jun 2026 | 03:00:00 | |
Tonight, the gods try to hold back the future. A wolf is growing among them, larger and stronger each day, and the gods know how the story is meant to end. They bring him chains, and call it a game, and he breaks them. Then they bring a ribbon made of impossible things, and a single god is brave enough, or honest enough, to pay the price of the lie. A calm, sad story about fate beginning to set. Let it settle over you slowly. Chapters: 0:00 Welcome 2:04 Chapter 1. The Three Children of Loki 12:47 Chapter 2. The Wolf Brought to Asgard 21:57 Chapter 3. Týr, the One Who Fed Him 31:51 Chapter 4. The First Two Chains 40:10 Chapter 5. Down to Svartalfheim Again 47:20 Chapter 6. The Six Impossible Things 57:34 Chapter 7. The Ribbon in the Hand 1:04:37 Chapter 8. The Test the Wolf Proposed 1:10:37 Chapter 9. The Binding 1:16:38 Chapter 10. The God Who Could Not Hold a Sword 1:28:14 Chapter 11. What Was Lost. What Was Held. 1:35:42 Chapter 12. Goodnight. And the Wolf at the Edge of Time. 1:47:30 Music to sleep by Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/7P8vw9jK5Y4 New episodes every Wednesday and Sunday. Sources: the Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson (Gylfaginning) and the Poetic Edda, retold in an original written narrative. 🌙 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 Forging of Mjǫllnir · Norse Mythology Sleep Story · 3 Hours | 04 Jun 2026 | 03:00:01 | |
Tonight, a wager in the dark under the mountains. Loki, having cut the golden hair from Thor's wife while she slept, must replace it, and to do so he sets the finest dwarven smiths against one another. Out of their forge come a ship that folds into a pocket, a spear that never misses, a ring that makes more of itself, and a short handled hammer that will become the most famous object in all the nine worlds. A slow, warm story of craft and mischief. Drift off beside the forge. Chapters: 0:00 Welcome 1:55 Chapter 1. Thor, the God of the Hammer 11:34 Chapter 2. Sif and the Golden Hair 20:58 Chapter 3. Loki, the Trickster 31:38 Chapter 4. The Cutting 41:13 Chapter 5. Down to Svartalfheim 50:15 Chapter 6. The Sons of Ivaldi 59:44 Chapter 7. The Wager (Loki Bets His Head) 1:09:15 Chapter 8. The Fly at the Bellows 1:21:05 Chapter 9. Gullinbursti and Draupnir 1:29:53 Chapter 10. The Making of Mjǫllnir 1:41:14 Chapter 11. The Judgment of the Gods 1:48:16 Chapter 12. Goodnight. And the Hammer at Rest 2:01:36 Music to sleep by Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/J1fn8PAVAjY New episodes every Wednesday and Sunday. Sources: the Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson, retold in an original written narrative. 🌙 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. | |||
| Odin's Search for Wisdom · Norse Mythology Sleep Story · 3 Hours | 01 Jun 2026 | 03:00:02 | |
Tonight, the Allfather goes looking for what he does not yet know. He comes to the well at the root of the world, where Mímir keeps the water of wisdom, and he pays for a single drink with an eye. Later he hangs nine nights on the windswept tree, wounded and alone, until the runes rise to him out of the dark. A quiet story about how much a god will give to understand the world. Let it carry you down slowly. Chapters: 0:00 Welcome 1:46 Chapter 1. The God Who Could Not Be Still 8:44 Chapter 2. The Many Names of the Allfather 16:52 Chapter 3. Thought and Memory, the Two Ravens 24:41 Chapter 4. The Wolves at His Throne 31:43 Chapter 5. The Spear and the Ring 39:02 Chapter 6. The Well Beneath the World 52:28 Chapter 7. The Eye in the Water 1:01:40 Chapter 8. Sleipnir, the Eight legged Horse 1:09:24 Chapter 9. The Hanging on the Tree 1:26:38 Chapter 10. What the Runes Whispered 1:41:15 Chapter 11. The Wisdom He Brought Back 1:48:49 Chapter 12. A Quiet Reflection on the Allfather 1:53:15 Chapter 13. Goodnight, and the Allfather Continues 1:56:48 Music to sleep by Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/wAZlnkpF0uM New episodes every Wednesday and Sunday. Sources: the Hávamál and the Eddas, retold in an original written narrative. 🌙 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 Nine Worlds · Norse Mythology Sleep Story · 3 Hours of Calm Narration | 28 May 2026 | 03:00:01 | |
Tonight, the shape of everything. Before the gods have names you know, there is a tree, and from its branches and roots hang nine worlds. We move slowly through each one, from the fire of Muspelheim to the mist of Niflheim, the halls of the gods, the home of giants, and the dark below, until the whole map of Norse reality is laid out quietly around you. This is the orientation episode of the season. Everything that follows happens somewhere on this tree. Chapters: 0:00 Welcome 1:49 Chapter 1. The North Before the Gods 9:50 Chapter 2. Ginnungagap, the Yawning Void 18:18 Chapter 3. The First Fire and the First Frost 26:40 Chapter 4. Ymir, the First Being 36:56 Chapter 5. The Sons of Borr and the Slaying of Ymir 45:59 Chapter 6. The Making of the World 57:24 Chapter 7. Yggdrasill, the World Tree 1:08:02 Chapter 8. The Nine Worlds Named 1:19:00 Chapter 9. The Wells Beneath the Roots 1:28:19 Chapter 10. The Bridge of Burning Light 1:36:58 Chapter 11. A Quiet Reflection on the Edda 1:45:11 Chapter 12. Goodnight, and the Beginning 1:49:50 Music to sleep by Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/HpgRqADGzTo New episodes every Wednesday and Sunday. Sources: the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson, retold in an original written narrative. 🌙 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. | |||
| Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac · Norse Mythology Sleep Stories | 26 May 2026 | 00:00:46 | |
A slow, calm place for the world's oldest stories, told for the listener who cannot quite turn off. Season 1 is Norse mythology, narrated across a single season long arc, from the nine worlds to Ragnarǫk. How to use the show: press play, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow and the music never spikes. You are not meant to stay awake. New episodes every Wednesday and Sunday. Follow everywhere, and watch the illustrated versions on YouTube: https://beacons.ai/thesleepingalmanac 🌙 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. | |||