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

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.
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A bonus for the long nights: five Anunnaki and Book of Enoch sleep stories from this feed in one long episode, told back to back with short pauses between them, then a long stretch of quiet music so it keeps playing through the night. It is the same compilation that airs live on our YouTube channel tonight.
In this episode:
0:00:00 Welcome
0:00:29 Anunnaki · The Real Story the Tablets Tell
1:31:18 Anunnaki · The Tablets That Slept Three Thousand Years
3:06:28 Book of Enoch · The Books the Bible Left Out
4:36:44 Dead Sea Scrolls and Nag Hammadi · How the Lost Books Came Back
6:11:32 Anunnaki · The Ancient Astronaut Theory in Full
7:41:44 Calm music, the long night
Every story here is also in the feed as its own full episode.
Watch the live compilation on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTDKmUG9m10
More stories and first looks at new seasons: gildenmyth.com

The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it.
Subscribing on YouTube helps the show grow, even if you only listen here: youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac
Two hundred watchmen came down a mountain and would not go back. Tonight, the Book of Enoch tells what was decided about them, and how, and it is not a war in heaven. It is a sentence, carried down by four messengers with four instructions: a word in Noah's ear before anything else, the one who taught the making of knives put under rough stones in a hole in the desert, the giants turned on each other, and their leader bound under the hills for seventy generations. And then, because this is the Book of Enoch, a journey. The man who carried the answer is taken by the hand and walked to the ends of the earth and shown where the winds are kept, the fire in the west that receives every setting of the sun, the mouths of all the rivers, seven mountains of pearl and jacinth and alabaster with a summit of sapphire, the empty place where the stars that came up late are kept, the mountain in the west with four hollows for the dead, one bright with a spring, a tree like no other on the hill where the throne will be, with fruit like the dates of a palm, and, at the far edge of the east, the garden, still there, with the tree that the book says the first man and woman ate from. A three hour sleep story, the first night of Season Six, The Lost Books.

Read slowly, in a low voice, beside a lamp in a round highland church in Ethiopia in the rain, by a copyist who is ruling the last leaf of the copy he began in our two Lost Books specials. Retold from the text, chapter by chapter, with source claims checked against primary texts and scholarship. The copyist and his room are an imagined frame. The Book of Enoch is scripture in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. An authentic book is not the same as a true event, and this one is told as what it is: a real book, read the way it was read.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Welcome
6:25 The Last Gathering
11:10 What Was Decided
17:27 Seventy Generations
24:05 The Plant
30:19 The Voice by the River, Again
38:06 The Ends of the Earth
44:58 The Stars That Were Late
51:32 The Hollow Places
58:26 The Tree Like No Other
1:06:25 The Garden in the East
1:14:12 The Gates of the Winds
1:23:55 Goodnight. And the Ruled Leaf
1:30:30 Calm music to drift off

The Sleeping Almanac retells the world's oldest myths and stories as three hour sleep stories for adults. Calm narration, a slow music bed, no sudden sounds, no mid roll ads. New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday night.

Season Six, The Lost Books, runs twelve nights from October 25: the people of the caves, the child who lit the room, the calendar that split a people, the angel and the heavenly tablets, the book only Ethiopia kept, Eden from the other side, the gospel with no story, the books the ground gave back, the tower built of souls, the Christmas story the Bible left out, and why they were left out.

If this helps you rest, subscribing helps more than you know.

More to listen to and read
Gildenmyth, all our stories and books: https://gildenmyth.com
Inside The Home Loan, our sister podcast: https://insidethehomeloan.com

The Sleeping Almanac is also a free podcast
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sleeping-almanac/id1896899316
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Or wherever you listen: https://podcast.thesleepingalmanac.com

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The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it.
Subscribing on YouTube helps the show grow, even if you only listen here: youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac
The Sleeping Almanac is also a shelf of books, bedtime stories to read and mythology coloring books: gildenmyth.com/books
A bonus for the long nights: six Egyptian Mythology sleep stories from this feed in one long episode, told back to back with short pauses between them, then a long stretch of quiet music so it keeps playing through the night. It is the same compilation that aired live on our YouTube channel.
In this episode:
0:00:00 Ra and the First Sunrise
1:52:11 The Secret Name of Ra
3:48:55 The Eye of Ra
5:42:25 Thoth and the Five Stolen Days
7:33:58 Osiris the Green King
9:02:15 The Death of Osiris
10:19:10 Ambience, the long night
Every story here is also in the feed as its own full episode.
Watch the live compilation on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4acTlokF_-k
More stories and first looks at new seasons: gildenmyth.com

The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it.
Subscribing on YouTube helps the show grow, even if you only listen here: youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac
The Sleeping Almanac is also a shelf of books, bedtime stories to read and mythology coloring books: gildenmyth.com/books
For twelve nights this season told the oldest stories on earth the way the clay tells them. Tonight, the other story. The one most people mean when they say Anunnaki: a twelfth planet on a long slow orbit, visitors who came for gold, a worker made in a laboratory out of clay and blood, a memory the tablets are said to keep. It is told whole, at full length, the way the people who believe it tell it, with its wonder intact. And after each part, once and plainly, what the object is: what the word means in the dictionary, what the seal in Berlin actually shows, what the flood poem actually says, what the chromosome and the green tablets actually are. Nobody is scolded. Nobody is lectured. If you have the twelve nights in you, you decide; if not, you are welcome anyway, and you may simply sleep.

A three hour sleep story set in a museum study room after closing, with two things on the table: a four thousand year old cylinder seal and a paperback from 1976. Both are real. Told with dignity for the man who wrote the book and for everyone who loves it.

This is the thirteenth night of Season Five, standing outside the twelve, and it closes the season.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Welcome
7:25 The Man Who Read Them Differently
14:48 An Older Idea
20:24 The Name
25:52 The Twelfth Planet
34:33 The Seal
41:51 The Gold
48:25 Clay and Blood
55:11 The Giants Who Were on the Earth
1:02:09 The Newer Voices
1:09:29 The Sudden City
1:19:34 Why It Is Loved
1:25:22 Goodnight. And the Seal in Its Case
1:30:11 Calm music to drift off

The Sleeping Almanac retells the world's oldest myths and stories as three hour sleep stories for adults. Calm narration, a slow music bed, no sudden sounds, no mid roll ads. New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday night.

If this helps you rest, subscribing helps more than you know.

More to listen to and read
Gildenmyth, all our stories and books: https://gildenmyth.com
Inside The Home Loan, our sister podcast: https://insidethehomeloan.com

The Sleeping Almanac is also a free podcast
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sleeping-almanac/id1896899316
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033vbQDixCCfxEWvl1XFJQ
Or wherever you listen: https://podcast.thesleepingalmanac.com

This channel uses AI tools (script research, narration, visuals) under the direction of a human editor. Every episode is researched, reviewed, and revised before publication.

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The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it.
Subscribing on YouTube helps the show grow, even if you only listen here: youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac
The Sleeping Almanac is also a shelf of books, bedtime stories to read and mythology coloring books: gildenmyth.com/books
Erra and Ishum is the only poem in this season whose author put his own name at the end and told us how he wrote it. He says it came to him in a dream, and that he wrote it down in the morning without adding a line. Tonight is a god of war who cannot settle, the Seven who were made to be used, the herald who talks him down, the statue whose gold went dull, the empty seat, and a tablet on a peg beside a door. A slow, calm 3 hour sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep.

Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. You do not have to follow it. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning.

These are retellings drawn from the real tablets and the real history. Where the old stories turn toward fear or cruelty, we turn gently toward comfort, choosing the telling that serves a calm night. Where scholars disagree, the disagreement is said out loud rather than smoothed over.

Season Five of The Sleeping Almanac: Mesopotamia. Twelve nights.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Welcome
5:38 The Man Who Had the Dream
10:58 The One Who Could Not Settle
15:20 The Seven
21:18 The Bolted Door
27:27 The Statue Needs Cleaning
33:22 The Seat Is Empty
39:26 What It Looked Like
49:33 The Speech
50:58 He Sat Down
56:37 The Remnant
1:00:53 The Blessing on the House
1:05:55 The Tablet on the Peg
1:11:16 Calm music to drift off

More to listen to and read:
Gildenmyth (all our stories and books): https://gildenmyth.com
Mortgages in plain language, Inside The Home Loan: https://insidethehomeloan.com

🎧 The Sleeping Almanac is now a podcast.
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This channel uses AI tools (script research, narration, visuals) under the direction of a human editor. Every episode is researched, reviewed, and revised before publication.

New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday at 6pm ET.

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