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

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A bonus for the long nights: six Mesopotamian Mythology sleep stories from this feed in one long episode, told back to back with short pauses between them, then a long stretch of quiet music so it keeps playing through the night. It is the same compilation that airs live on our YouTube channel tonight.
In this episode:
0:00 Welcome
0:28 Inanna Descent One
1:12:28 Inanna Descent Two
2:23:03 Adapa
3:44:12 Nergal and Ereshkigal
5:00:14 Anzu
6:09:50 Erra
7:21:06 Music and rest
Every story here is also in the feed as its own full episode.
Watch the live compilation on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6DkBFEa3Ko
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
Tonight there is a place set at the table for somebody who is not coming. The chair has been left empty on purpose, the bowl in front of it is full, and in a moment somebody is going to say a name out loud in a quiet room and mean it. This is Dziady, the night of the grandfathers, recorded in differing household forms across parts of the Slavic lands, and still kept in a few places tonight while you fall asleep.

The first of two Halloween specials that open Season Seven, the Slavic season. The stove that feeds the whole house. An early written account of these people, by a Byzantine secretary in the sixth century. The walk to the graves with bread wrapped in linen. The names said aloud at the head of the table, and the candle and morning dismissal in our pictured house. Told plainly and slowly, distinguishing recorded customs from the imagined house that carries the story.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Welcome
5:13 The Extra Place
10:48 The Early Account
19:12 The People Without a Book
30:07 The House That Feeds
38:46 The Road to the Graves
47:09 The Names Said Aloud
51:59 The Ones Who Come Hungry
59:40 The Candle and the Window
1:05:16 The Other Door
1:12:10 The Dismissal
1:17:33 The Ones Who Wrote It Down
1:25:38 Goodnight. And the Place Still Set
1:32:07 Fireplace ambience to drift off

The Sleeping Almanac retells the world's oldest myths and stories as three hour sleep stories for adults. Calm narration over the sound of a real log fire, no sudden sounds, no mid roll ads. New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday night, and live every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.

Season Seven, the Slavic season, opens with two specials, Dziady and All Souls, and runs twelve nights from November 15: Vasilisa and the doll, Perun and the river, Baba Yaga, Koschei the Deathless, the Firebird, the Frog Princess, Ilya Muromets, Sadko, Father Frost, the bathhouse, the vampire graves of 1732, and Svyatogor.

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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

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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.
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Anzu steals the Tablet of Destinies while its owner is in the bath, and that is the best opening of any story in Mesopotamian literature. The most powerful object in this whole world, the thing that makes whatever you say become true, goes out of the door in the talons of a lion headed eagle, and everything stops. Tonight is the theft, the three gods who said no, the young god who said yes, the arrows that turned back in the air, and the mountain. A slow, calm 3 hour sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep.

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

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

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

CHAPTERS
0:00 Welcome
4:06 The Bird
11:24 The Bath
16:10 Silence
21:34 Nobody Volunteers
28:00 The One Who Went
34:29 The Arrows That Turned Back
41:34 What the Clever One Said
44:53 Wing to Wing
48:39 Taking It Back
53:18 The Names
59:58 The Turtle
1:07:03 The Mountain Quiet
1:09:30 Calm music to drift off

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

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

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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
Nergal and Ereshkigal is the story of the queen of the underworld, who never goes anywhere, and the one god who went down to her twice. Tonight is the banquet she could not attend, the minister who climbed the long stair, the god who would not stand up, the fourteen doorkeepers, the six days behind a shut door, the threat that emptied heaven, and an ending that is far gentler than it has any right to be. A slow, calm 3 hour sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep.

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

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

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

CHAPTERS
0:00 Welcome
4:38 The Party She Could Not Come To
12:08 Everybody Stood Up
17:42 The One Who Did Not Stand
23:28 Fourteen at the Gates
31:31 The First Telling
36:37 Do Not Sit Down
42:18 Six Days
47:13 The Seventh Morning
52:28 Find Him
57:41 What She Said She Would Do
1:03:43 He Came Back
1:09:57 The Two Tellings
1:15:56 Calm music to drift off

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

🎧 The Sleeping Almanac is now a podcast.
Follow so the next story finds you:
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sleeping-almanac/id1896899316
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033vbQDixCCfxEWvl1XFJQ
Or wherever you listen: https://podcast.thesleepingalmanac.com

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

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

#ereshkigal #sleepstory #mesopotamia #nergal #bedtimestoriesforadults #deepsleep #sleep #insomnia #calm #mythology

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Three hours of calm music from the world of Slavic myth, made to help you fall asleep and stay asleep through the whole night. A bonus for the quiet nights, the same music playing tonight on our live sleep stream, three hours with no talking at all.
Tonight is a winter night in the forest, a stove somewhere behind you, one gusli string touched and let ring over a low bowed drone, with wind over open snow underneath the whole time. Our Slavic season opens this month with two specials, and on Halloween night, Saturday October 31, the first of them, Dziady, plays live for eleven hours. Its twelve nights begin on Sunday, November 15.
The music is original to the show, made with AI music tools and mixed for sleep: no melody that swells, no percussion, nothing sudden.
If it helps you sleep, follow the show so each new story and each new night of music arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it.
Watch the live on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VCkAi_y6wY
More stories and first looks at new seasons: gildenmyth.com