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The Sleeping Almanac: Sleep Stories for Adults from Myth and Fairy Tale

The Sleeping Almanac · Sleep Stories from Myth and Fairy Tale

Three hour sleep stories for adults, from the fairy tales and myths you already know. Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, Sleeping Beauty, Robin Hood, Homer's Odyssey, and the old gods of the North and of Egypt, each retold in slow, calm narration made to be listened to as you fall asleep.

The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it.

Each episode is researched, written, and narrated to drift over you rather than demand your attention. The pacing is slow. The music never spikes. The goal is the opposite of keeping you awake.

Each season moves through a different story tradition: Norse mythology, Egyptian myth, the great fairy tales, the tales of 1001 Nights, Homer's Odyssey, the myths of ancient Mesopotamia, and the lost books of the Bible. New episodes every Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday night, every one of them three hours long.

The almanac is now a book. Norse Myths Retold for Sleep gathers twelve of the oldest stories, retold to be read in a low lamp until the page slips from your hand. On Kindle now, free with Kindle Unlimited: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2WLVPD

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This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

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  • S4 · E12
    Thursday · 3 hr

    Odysseus and His Father Laertes · The Odyssey · Greek Mythology Sleep Story

    The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it. Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight is the last night of the Odyssey, and it is the quietest one. A king who has just won back his own hall walks out of it at first light and goes up into the hills, because there is one person left who does not know he is alive. His father lives on a high farm now, in a labourer's patched tunic and gardener's gloves, working an orchard alone and refusing the comfort of the house, because grief made him small and the work is the only thing that answers. You will hear a son stand at the edge of a vineyard row and watch an old man dig, and try a stranger's story on him first, and watch it land like a stone. And then you will hear him give up the disguise and prove himself with the gentlest evidence in all of Homer. Not a scar. Not a bow. A list of trees. Thirteen pear, ten apple, forty fig, and the rows of vines a father once walked with a small boy at his heel and counted out loud as a gift, and the boy remembered every one of them for forty years. You will hear a house wake up around that. A bath, clean clothes, an old woman's cooking, three generations of one family sitting at a table at the same time for the first time in a lifetime. And out on the road the fathers of the dead come looking for the king with spears, and the anger of a whole island stands up at once, and it is ended not with a battle but with a voice out of the sky and a bolt in the dust and oaths of peace sworn on the spot. Then the days after. A story promised and finally told, an oar carried inland until someone calls it a winnowing fan, and a sail at the edge of morning. A calm, hopeful telling for sleep, calm enough to drift to and rich enough to stay awake for if you choose. Close your eyes. Let the orchard go quiet. There is nothing to do now but listen and rest. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire 4:00 Chapter One: The Morning After Twenty Years 12:47 Chapter Two: The Walk Up Through the Autumn Island 19:34 Chapter Three: The Gardener King 27:47 Chapter Four: The Test He Could Not Finish 34:13 Chapter Five: The Proof of the Orchard 44:23 Chapter Six: The Bath and the Table 52:25 Chapter Seven: The Anger in the Town 1:01:36 Chapter Eight: The Voice That Ended It 1:11:38 Chapter Nine: The Oaths of Peace 1:15:58 Chapter Ten: The Days After 1:23:17 Chapter Eleven: The Story That Was Promised 1:29:22 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight. And the Sail at the Edge of Morning Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/HViw5KkaW-Y New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. 🎙️ Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com 📖 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com 🕊️ Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

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  • S4 · E11
    September 22 · 3 hr

    Penelope, the Bow and the Olive Tree Bed · The Odyssey · Greek Mythology Sleep Story

    The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it. Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight a great bow comes down off a wall where it has hung at rest through a whole long war, and the strongest young men in a kingdom warm it and grease it at the fire and cannot bend it, because strength was never the thing it was waiting for. A queen carries her husband's bow down the stairs in her own two arms and sets the terms of a contest she believes no one can win. A boy plants twelve iron axe heads in a straight trench down the hall floor, a game he has never once seen played, and his hands know it anyway. And a beggar in rags asks to try that bow, and turns it in his hands the way a singer turns a new lyre, and strings it without rising from his stool, and plucks it once, and one clear note answers like a swallow. You will see a single arrow fly clean through the sockets of all twelve axes without touching iron. You will see a house give a wandering king back his name, and then his hall, and then his wife, who makes him prove himself with a bed whose secret is a living olive tree for a leg, rooted in the island itself, that no man alive could move. The night is stern for a little while in its middle, told plainly and in a low voice and staged not at all, and it is brief, and it passes. On the far side of it there is a house swept clean, and two people knowing each other again after twenty years, and a night the grey eyed goddess made longer so they would have time enough. A calm, hopeful telling for sleep, calm enough to drift to and rich enough to stay awake for if you choose. Close your eyes. Let the hall go quiet. There is nothing to do now but listen and rest. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire 4:40 Chapter One: The Morning of the Axes 12:17 Chapter Two: The Bow Comes Down 21:32 Chapter Three: The Contest of the Young Men 30:14 Chapter Four: The Two Herdsmen in the Yard 37:46 Chapter Five: The Beggar Asks for the Bow 44:27 Chapter Six: The Singer Strings the Bow 50:43 Chapter Seven: The Arrow Through the Twelve 56:52 Chapter Eight: The Reckoning 1:02:31 Chapter Nine: The House Made Clean 1:08:21 Chapter Ten: Come and See 1:14:33 Chapter Eleven: The Bed That Could Not Be Moved 1:25:00 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight. And the Night the Goddess Made Longer Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/1HRpIBQzS6E New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. 🎙️ Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com 📖 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com 🕊️ Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

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  • S4 · E10
    September 20 · 3 hr

    Odysseus the Beggar and Argos the Dog · The Odyssey · Greek Mythology Sleep Story

    The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it. Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight a king walks into his own house as a beggar, and only a dog knows him. He comes down the goat track from the high farm in rags, past the spring where the road bends, and lets a rude man kick him without answering. At his own gate an old hound lifts his head, thumps his tail once in the dust, and lets go of a life he had only been holding on to for this. Inside, the great hall is loud with men eating another man's cattle, and the ragged stranger goes along the tables with his hands out and takes what they give him, insults and bread alike, while his own son watches and says nothing. Upstairs the queen sits at a loom she has been quietly unweaving by lamplight for three years. And in a quiet corner an old nurse kneels to wash a beggar's feet, finds a scar above his knee that she has known since he was a boy, and is hushed before she can cry out. A calm, hopeful telling of the return to the hall for sleep, calm enough to drift to and rich enough to stay awake for if you choose. Close your eyes. Let the lamps in the hall burn down. There is nothing to do now but listen and rest. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire 4:34 Chapter One: The Road Down to the Town 10:30 Chapter Two: An Unkindness on the Road 16:02 Chapter Three: The Old Dog on the Warm Heap 26:20 Chapter Four: The Beggar at His Own Door 31:54 Chapter Five: The Thrown Stool 40:18 Chapter Six: The Queen Among the Wasters 48:05 Chapter Seven: The Web Told by the Weaver 56:01 Chapter Eight: The Cloak and the Brooch 1:04:52 Chapter Nine: The Basin and the Scar 1:14:24 Chapter Ten: The Dream of the Geese 1:21:30 Chapter Eleven: The House Going Quiet 1:25:59 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight. And the House Asleep Around Its Secret Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/wlBVOc8e4WI New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. 🎙️ Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com 📖 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com 🕊️ Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

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  • S4 · E9
    September 18 · 3 hr

    Odysseus Home on Ithaca · The Odyssey · Greek Mythology Sleep Story

    The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it. Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight the long way home ends on a beach at last, and nobody knows it yet. A man wakes in a mist so thick he does not recognise his own island, and believes for one aching moment that he has been cheated again. A young shepherd with grey eyes tells him where he is, and then tells him who she is, and laughs at him fondly for lying to her, because they are both of one craft. Then the king of Ithaca is made old and ragged and unrecognisable, and walks up to a pig farm on the high ground to sit at the fire of a servant who has never stopped believing he would come back. There is a supper of roast pork and dark wine. There is a tale told about a cold night at Troy and a borrowed cloak, invented on the spot to beg a blanket. There is rain drumming on a rough roof, and a son sailing home under the same rain, and one quiet room where a father finally says who he is. A calm, hopeful telling of the homecoming and the swineherd's hut for sleep, calm enough to drift to and rich enough to stay awake for if you choose. Close your eyes. Let the fire in the hut burn low. There is nothing to do now but listen and rest. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire 4:34 Chapter One: The Waking Stranger 10:15 Chapter Two: The Shepherd with Grey Eyes 17:48 Chapter Three: We Are Both of One Craft 23:57 Chapter Four: The Cave and the Plan 32:36 Chapter Five: The Farm on the High Ground 40:20 Chapter Six: The Supper of the Swineherd 49:10 Chapter Seven: The Tale of the Cloak 56:02 Chapter Eight: The Story of the Swineherd 1:03:17 Chapter Nine: The Son on the Sea 1:09:26 Chapter Ten: I Am Your Father 1:18:26 Chapter Eleven: The Plan Laid in Low Voices 1:26:42 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight. And the Rain on the Swineherd's Roof Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/t3zpNlv2NjI New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. 🎙️ Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com 📖 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com 🕊️ Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

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  • S4 · E8
    September 17 · 3 hr

    Nausicaa and the Phaeacians · The Odyssey · Greek Mythology Sleep Story

    The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it. Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight the gentlest kingdom in all the old world, and the night a long story folds quietly in two. A girl goes down to a river at dawn to wash her father's linen, finds the sea's last castaway asleep in the leaves, and does not run. There is a garden that bears in every season at once, pear behind pear and fig behind fig, forever. There are ships that need no steersman and know the way by thought alone. And in a bright hall a blind singer sings a certain war so truly that a stranger weeps into his cloak, and is asked at last the one question he has not answered in twenty years. A calm, hopeful telling of Nausicaa and the Phaeacians for sleep, calm enough to drift to and rich enough to stay awake for if you choose. Close your eyes. Let the fire on the beach burn low. There is nothing to do now but listen and rest. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire 4:30 Chapter One: The Wagon at Dawn 12:00 Chapter Two: The Stranger from the Leaves 20:18 Chapter Three: The Walk Behind the Mules 30:06 Chapter Four: The Garden That Bore in Every Season 39:05 Chapter Five: The Queen's Sharp Eye 49:03 Chapter Six: The Games and the Throw 1:00:28 Chapter Seven: The Blind Singer 1:08:47 Chapter Eight: The Song of the Horse 1:18:40 Chapter Nine: I Am Odysseus 1:27:47 Chapter Ten: The Gifts and the Farewell 1:35:09 Chapter Eleven: The Ship That Steered Itself 1:41:03 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight. And the Sleeper Carried Home Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/p3kD1LVxzgg New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. 🎙️ Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com 📖 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com 🕊️ Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

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  • September 15 · 3 hr

    Anunnaki · The Tablets That Slept Three Thousand Years · 3 Hour Sleep Story

    The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it. The tablets that first wrote the Anunnaki slept under a hill for two and a half thousand years, and tonight is the story of how they came back. A slow, calm 3 hour sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. The fire that saved a library by baking its books, the grassy mound that kept them, a soldier copying an unreachable cliff, a quiet clerk who taught himself the oldest writing on earth at lunch, the broken tablet that held a flood, and a man in 1976 who read the same clay and told a very different story. Tonight both readings get their say, each in its own voice, and you can decide for yourself. Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. Chapters 0:00 Welcome 6:54 The Same Lamp 11:32 The King Who Collected 19:22 The Night the City Burned 24:34 What Fire Does to Clay 29:25 Two and a Half Thousand Years 38:41 The Men With Shovels 45:16 The Cliff at Behistun 51:42 The Clerk Who Taught Himself 57:10 The Eleventh Tablet 1:05:47 The Man Who Read Them Differently 1:20:23 The Long Chain of Hands 1:27:04 Goodnight. And the Tablet in the Quiet Room 1:35:05 Calm music to drift off Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZUkf3KRjIg Everything in one place: https://gildenmyth.com 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This channel uses AI tools (script research, narration, visuals) under the direction of a human editor. Every episode is researched, reviewed, and revised before publication.

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  • S4 · E7
    September 13 · 3 hr

    Odysseus Leaves Calypso on a Raft · The Odyssey · Greek Mythology Sleep Story

    The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it. Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight the long stay on the island of Calypso ends, the gods in the high air decide the wanderer may go home at last, and he builds a raft with his own hands and sails alone by the stars. The sea has one more storm to send, and a kind goddess a veil to save him, before a gentle river carries him to rest on a bed of leaves under two olive trees. A calm, hopeful telling for sleep, calm enough to drift to and rich enough to stay awake for if you choose. Close your eyes. Let the fire on the beach burn low. There is nothing to do now but listen and rest. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire 4:33 Chapter One: The Island Where Time Lay Down 12:45 Chapter Two: The Man at the Shore 21:32 Chapter Three: The Council in the High Air 27:55 Chapter Four: The God on the Wide Water 36:53 Chapter Five: The Choice Offered Once More 45:46 Chapter Six: The Axe and the Trees 54:44 Chapter Seven: The Stars on His Left Hand 1:04:03 Chapter Eight: The Sea Remembers 1:12:45 Chapter Nine: The River's Welcome 1:18:58 Chapter Ten: The Bed of Leaves 1:24:07 Chapter Eleven: The Dream Sent to a Princess 1:28:29 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight and the Bed of Leaves Under the Two Olives Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/4pguhDajTH8 New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. 🎙️ Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com 📖 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com 🕊️ Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

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  • September 11 · 3 hr

    Anunnaki · The Real Story the Tablets Tell · 3 Hour Sleep Story

    The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it. 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 Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W1xB4hEvgA Everything in one place: https://gildenmyth.com 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This channel uses AI tools (script research, narration, visuals) under the direction of a human editor. Every episode is researched, reviewed, and revised before publication.

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  • S4 · E6
    September 10 · 3 hr

    The Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis · The Odyssey · Greek Mythology Sleep Story

    The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it. 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 0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire 4:45 Chapter One: The Shore Lore of the Goddess 14:14 Chapter Two: The Wind She Sent 23:01 Chapter Three: The Meadow of the Singers 33:56 Chapter Four: The Choice of Roads 43:25 Chapter Five: The Toll of the Strait 51:47 Chapter Six: The Green Island of the Sun 1:01:59 Chapter Seven: The Second Becalming 1:11:57 Chapter Eight: The Hunger That Broke the Oath 1:21:28 Chapter Nine: The Sea Keeps Its Word 1:30:18 Chapter Ten: The Grip on the Fig Tree 1:36:35 Chapter Eleven: Nine Days on the Kind Current 1:42:39 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight and the Softest Shore the Sea Owned Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/xnPpfnBDTnE New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. 🎙️ Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com 📖 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com 🕊️ Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

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  • S4 · E5
    September 6 · 3 hr

    Odysseus in the Underworld · The Odyssey · Greek Mythology Sleep Story

    The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it. 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 0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire 4:28 Chapter One: The Reminder at the Fire 11:02 Chapter Two: The Young Man Who Missed the Sailing 18:00 Chapter Three: The Edge of the World 24:15 Chapter Four: The First Asking 30:20 Chapter Five: The Old Man with the Golden Staff 39:38 Chapter Six: His Mother's Face 47:13 Chapter Seven: The Counting of the Queens 54:47 Chapter Eight: The King Who Came Home to the Dark 1:03:28 Chapter Nine: The Gladdest Ghost 1:11:12 Chapter Ten: The Silence in the Meadow 1:16:23 Chapter Eleven: The Far Figures 1:23:48 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight and the Promise Kept at Morning Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/x4UEGwuLzvs New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. 🎙️ Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com 📖 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com 🕊️ Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

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  • S4 · E4
    September 5 · 3 hr

    Aeolus, the Bag of Winds and Circe · The Odyssey · Greek Mythology Sleep Story

    The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it. 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 0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire 4:30 Chapter One: The Floating Island 11:15 Chapter Two: The Gift of the Tied Winds 17:16 Chapter Three: Nine Days Awake at the Steering Oar 23:35 Chapter Four: The Opening of the Bag 29:23 Chapter Five: The Closed Door 34:43 Chapter Six: The Harbor of the Giants 43:39 Chapter Seven: The Island of the Low Smoke 50:00 Chapter Eight: The House of the Singing Witch 59:46 Chapter Nine: The Flower with the Black Root 1:07:21 Chapter Ten: The Wand That Failed 1:21:04 Chapter Eleven: The Year of Rest 1:28:44 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight and the Year of Rest Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/1eHamdubluU New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. 🎙️ Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com 📖 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com 🕊️ Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

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  • S4 · E3
    September 3 · 3 hr

    Odysseus and the Cyclops Polyphemus · The Odyssey · Greek Mythology Sleep Story

    The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it. 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 0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire 4:43 Chapter One: The First Shore 11:38 Chapter Two: The Priest's Wine 15:40 Chapter Three: Nine Days of the Wrong Wind 20:24 Chapter Four: The Honey Sweet Country 26:21 Chapter Five: The Island of the Shepherd Giants 37:22 Chapter Six: The Question of the Guest Law 46:51 Chapter Seven: The Host Who Ate the Guest Law 53:37 Chapter Eight: The Name That Was No One 1:02:55 Chapter Nine: The Price of the Door 1:08:45 Chapter Ten: Under the Rams at Morning 1:18:46 Chapter Eleven: The Shout Across the Water 1:29:19 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight and the Wake in the Dark Water Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/dblcjNoUJkg New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. 🎙️ Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com 📖 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com 🕊️ Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

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  • S4 · E2
    September 1 · 3 hr

    The Trojan Horse and the Fall of Troy · The Odyssey · Greek Mythology Sleep Story

    The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it. 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 0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire 4:43 Chapter One: The Song This Fire Will Not Steal 9:33 Chapter Two: The Ten Years Told as Weather 17:51 Chapter Three: The Mind the War Leaned On 24:56 Chapter Four: The Beggar Inside the Walls 34:24 Chapter Five: The Falling of the Brightest Star 44:01 Chapter Six: The Armor and the Silence 49:48 Chapter Seven: The Boy from Skyros 58:30 Chapter Eight: The Archer and the Old Bow 1:05:51 Chapter Nine: The Idea of the Horse 1:17:13 Chapter Ten: The Night of Held Breath 1:35:55 Chapter Eleven: The Ships Turn Home 1:46:40 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight and the Ships Turning Home Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/jXJmzh-Nceo New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. 🎙️ Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com 📖 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com 🕊️ Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

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  • S4 · E1
    August 30 · 3 hr

    The Trojan War Begins on the Wrong Shore · The Odyssey · Greek Mythology Sleep Story

    The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it. 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 0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire 4:44 Chapter One: The Morning After the Dawn 12:34 Chapter Two: The Sea Without Signposts 19:15 Chapter Three: The Landfall That Lied 25:15 Chapter Four: The King of the Wrong Country 35:04 Chapter Five: The Spear and the Wound 42:09 Chapter Six: The Scattering 48:36 Chapter Seven: The Years Between 55:53 Chapter Eight: The Wound That Would Not Close 1:03:45 Chapter Nine: The Beggar at the Door of the Kings 1:15:07 Chapter Ten: The Rust of the Spear 1:24:18 Chapter Eleven: The Guide Who Knew the Water 1:34:07 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight and the Road Found at Last Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/gAJ0kDVRpL8 New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. 🎙️ Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com 📖 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com 🕊️ Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

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  • S2 · E24
    August 29 · 3 hr

    The Moon Princess Kaguya · The Original Tale · 3 Hour Full Moon Sleep Story to Fall Asleep

    The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it. 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: 0:00 Welcome 3:25 The Grove of Green Light 12:51 The Smallest Princess in the World 22:57 The Five Suitors 33:35 The Stone Bowl of the Buddha 40:38 The Jeweled Branch of Horai 51:45 The Robe of the Fire Rat 59:10 The Jewel in the Dragon's Neck 1:06:56 The Swallow's Shell 1:16:22 The Emperor's Letters 1:24:31 The Fifteenth Night of the Eighth Month 1:38:04 The Smoke of the Mountain 1:45:16 Goodnight. And the Lamp at the Edge of Morning Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday. 🕯 Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com 📜 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com 🕊 Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

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