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

1. Japanese Myth Music · 3 Hour Sleep Music · Moonlit Orchard Ambience for Deep Sleep

   15.11.20262 Std. 59 Min.BonusAls Nächstes

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   Three hours of calm music from the world of Japanese myth, made to help you fall asleep and stay asleep through the whole night. A bonus for the quiet nights, the music from our live sleep stream of September 23, three hours with no talking at all.

   Tonight is an orchard under the moon, the soft light of Amaterasu carried in one long piece that returns in a darker, slower midnight form, so the music keeps moving instead of looping back on itself every few minutes.

   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=QcIRxUyzZmE
   More stories and first looks at new seasons: gildenmyth.com

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   1. 0:00The first hour
   2. 1:00:00The second hour
   3. 2:00:00The third hour

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2. Lost Books of the Bible · The Complete Story of Why They Were Left Out · 3 Hour Sleep Story

   14.11.20263 Std.Staffel 6 · Folge 12Als Nächstes

   Hear every new episode early, weeks before it airs, as a Lamplighter: gildenmyth.comThe 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 …

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   Hear every new episode early, weeks before it airs, as a Lamplighter: 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.No surviving record of Nicaea gives a vote selecting the New Testament. Later regional councils did record decisions about scripture. Nicaea met in 325 at the emperor's invitation. Its surviving records concern doctrine and church order, not a decision selecting the biblical books. The longer history involved churches using books, writers debating authorship and teaching, bishops making lists and regional councils recording decisions. Public reading mattered alongside authority and truth. Tonight, the whole of it, gently, and with every name given back to the person who carried it. Eusebius of Caesarea surveying acknowledged, disputed and rejected writings while reporting differing judgments. A Latin text published in Milan in 1740, copied into a larger codex and often called the earliest surviving New Testament list, though its date is disputed. Athanasius's Easter letter of 367, naming the familiar twenty seven books and distinguishing them from other books recommended for instruction. The regional councils of Hippo in 393 and Carthage in 397, with Augustine attending Hippo as a priest. And the questions of authorship, reception, teaching and truth that shaped these decisions. Then the part nobody expects, which is the comfort in it: the books that nearly did not make it, the broad agreements and the disagreements that remained. Then English Bibles printed with an Apocrypha section, and the British and Foreign Bible Society's decision in 1826 to stop funding editions with it. Then the Ethiopian tradition that preserved Enoch and Jubilees as scripture. A three hour sleep story, the twelfth and last night of Season Six, The Lost Books. Told from the letters and lists themselves, with an imagined Ethiopian copyist setting the finished book beside the one he copied it from. Source claims were checked against the primary texts and scholarship reviewed for this episode. An authentic book is not the same as a true event. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome 5:16 There Was No Room 14:53 The Man Who Sorted Books Into Piles 23:07 The List in the Cupboard in Milan 30:07 The Letter That Went Out at Easter 37:04 Two Meetings in North Africa 44:18 What They Were Actually Asking 52:38 The Books That Nearly Did Not Make It 58:41 The Bible That Was Bigger 1:07:49 The Church That Kept Everything 1:13:36 What the Left Out Books Are Actually Like 1:23:13 The People Who Made the List 1:31:21 Goodnight. And the Shelf 1:38:29 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. This is the last night of Season Six, The Lost Books, twelve nights that ran from October 25. The whole season is on the channel now, and it is on the podcast, free, in the same order. If this helps you rest, subscribing helps more than you know. More to listen to and read Gildenmyth, all our stories and books: https://gildenmyth.com Inside The Home Loan, our sister podcast: https://insidethehomeloan.com The Sleeping Almanac is also a free podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sleeping-almanac/id1896899316 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033vbQDixCCfxEWvl1XFJQ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/17ca51a7-c6fc-4d27-a66a-c5a2449220a6 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac Or wherever you listen: https://podcast.thesleepingalmanac.com

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   1. 0:00Welcome
   2. 5:16Chapter One. There Was No Room
   3. 14:53Chapter Two. The Man Who Sorted Books Into Piles
   4. 23:08Chapter Three. The List in the Cupboard in Milan
   5. 30:07Chapter Four. The Letter That Went Out at Easter
   6. 37:04Chapter Five. Two Meetings in North Africa
   7. 44:18Chapter Six. What They Were Actually Asking
   8. 52:38Chapter Seven. The Books That Nearly Did Not Make It
   9. 58:41Chapter Eight. The Bible That Was Bigger
   10. 1:07:49Chapter Nine. The Church That Kept Everything
   11. 1:13:36Chapter Ten. What the Left Out Books Are Actually Like
   12. 1:23:13Chapter Eleven. The People Who Made the List
   13. 1:31:21Chapter Twelve. Goodnight. And the Shelf
   14. 1:38:29Music and Rain

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3. Gospel of James · The Complete Christmas Story the Bible Left Out · 3 Hour Sleep Story

   13.11.20263 Std.Staffel 6 · Folge 11Als Nächstes

   Hear every new episode early, weeks before it airs, as a Lamplighter: gildenmyth.comThe 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 …

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   Hear every new episode early, weeks before it airs, as a Lamplighter: 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.Many familiar details of later Nativity tradition appear in this book, and tonight you meet it. The Gospel of James, written in Greek in the second century, left outside the Western New Testament, and influential anyway in the calendar, the architecture, the art and the crib in your own house. It gives the names Joachim and Anne to Mary's parents in an influential early story. It gives the birth a cave setting. Its midwives and old Joseph influenced later Nativity imagery, and its stories shaped Marian traditions. Tonight its story, in order: an old couple with no child and a woman weeping under a laurel tree, a girl of three dancing on the step of the temple, a lottery of widowers and a dove out of a rod, a voice at a well that comes from nowhere, a good man falling apart when he comes home from building, a trial by ordeal that acquits them both, a road where she sees two peoples, one weeping and one rejoicing, and a cave. And in the middle of it, the strangest page in early Christian writing, where the narrator changes to I and the whole world stops: birds standing still in the air, hands in the dish, a shepherd's staff raised and never falling, and young goats at the water not drinking. Then a midwife who believed and a midwife who did not. And then four smaller things kept the same way: a woman who baptised herself in front of a crowd that came to watch her die, a hymn about a cup of milk from a recovered early Christian hymn collection, a prophet taken up through seven heavens, and a man who fell asleep under a tree with a basket of figs and woke up sixty six years later. A three hour sleep story, the eleventh night of Season Six, The Lost Books. Told from the book itself, with an imagined Ethiopian copyist attaching the boards with the sewing thread and tooling a cross into the leather. These books stand outside the New Testament. Their place in other traditions varies, and one of these stories is kept with Jeremiah in Ethiopia. An authentic book is not the same as a true event. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome 4:16 The Book With James's Name 11:37 Anna Under the Laurel 17:51 The Girl on the Third Step 24:21 The Rods of the Widowers 30:17 The Voice at the Well 37:58 The Trial, and the Road 45:30 The World That Stopped 50:49 The Midwife and the Doubter 57:08 What the Church Kept Anyway 1:04:09 Thecla at the Window 1:13:23 A Song, Seven Heavens, and a Man Who Slept 1:24:50 Goodnight. And the Boards 1:30:12 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 first ten nights are on the channel now. Next, and last: why they were left out, and who actually decided. If this helps you rest, subscribing helps more than you know. More to listen to and read Gildenmyth, all our stories and books: https://gildenmyth.com Inside The Home Loan, our sister podcast: https://insidethehomeloan.com The Sleeping Almanac is also a free podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sleeping-almanac/id1896899316 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033vbQDixCCfxEWvl1XFJQ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/17ca51a7-c6fc-4d27-a66a-c5a2449220a6 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac Or wherever you listen: https://podcast.thesleepingalmanac.com

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   1. 0:00Welcome
   2. 4:16The Book With James's Name
   3. 11:37Anna Under the Laurel
   4. 17:51The Girl on the Third Step
   5. 24:21The Rods of the Widowers
   6. 30:17The Voice at the Well
   7. 37:58The Trial, and the Road
   8. 45:30The World That Stopped
   9. 50:49The Midwife and the Doubter
   10. 57:08What the Church Kept Anyway
   11. 1:04:09Thecla at the Window
   12. 1:13:23A Song, Seven Heavens, and a Man Who Slept
   13. 1:24:50Goodnight. And the Boards
   14. 1:30:12Calm music to drift off

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4. Norse Myth Music · 3 Hour Sleep Music · Mountain Night Ambience

   12.11.20262 Std. 60 Min.BonusAls Nächstes

   Subscribing on YouTube helps the show grow, even if you only listen here: youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanacThe Sleeping Almanac is also a shelf of books, bedtime stories to read and mythology coloring books …

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   Three hours of calm music from the world of Norse 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 long northern night under a mountain, pine forest below and cold air moving over it, carried in one long piece that turns into a second, slower theme and back again, so the music keeps drifting instead of looping every few minutes. Norse myth was where this channel began.

   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=c26U4TkBo1E
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   1. 0:00The first hour
   2. 1:00:00The second hour
   3. 2:00:00The third hour

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5. Shepherd of Hermas · The Full Story Behind the Tower Built of Souls · 3 Hour Sleep Story

   11.11.20263 Std.Staffel 6 · Folge 10Als Nächstes

   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 …

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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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   The Sleeping Almanac is also a shelf of books, bedtime stories to read and mythology coloring books: gildenmyth.com/books

   A book whose narrator says he had been sold. Hermas speaks from Rome in the second century and tells you on his first page that he was sold when young, that years later he saw the woman who bought him bathing in the river and helped her out of the water, and that he thought a thought about her he was ashamed of. And that because of that thought, and some other things he had let go wrong at home, he was given visions, and a shepherd, and a book. Some early churches read it publicly, and a copy stands after Revelation and Barnabas in Codex Sinaiticus, the oldest surviving complete New Testament. Tonight the whole of it, everything around the famous tower: an old woman whose changing appearance is explained. A beast the size of a jar on the road to Cumae that lies down and lets him pass because he does not run. A shepherd who sits on the edge of his bed and gives him twelve plain rules and ten pictures. A vine carried by an elm. A willow whose branches are cut and cut and are not diminished. And in the middle of it a central promise of the book, that there is one repentance more, and it is now. Then three other early Christian books: a handbook with instructions for meals and Sunday worship, the letter Rome sent Corinth with a phoenix in it, and the hardest of the four. A three hour sleep story, the tenth night of Season Six, The Lost Books. Told through the Roman setting of Hermas and an imagined Ethiopian copyist who has finished writing and now sews. Source claims were checked against the primary texts and scholarship reviewed for this episode. An authentic book is not the same as a true event. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome 4:46 The Book at the Back 11:29 The Man Who Was Sold 17:08 The Old Woman Who Grew Younger 23:43 The Beast on the Road 29:58 The Shepherd Comes to the House 35:21 Twelve Commandments 46:37 The Elm and the Vine 52:45 The Willow That Would Not Die 58:21 One Repentance More 1:04:32 How Rome Did Sunday 1:15:12 Nearly the Bible 1:21:12 Goodnight. And the Sewing 1:29:15 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 first nine nights are on the channel now. Next: the Christmas story the Bible left out. If this helps you rest, subscribing helps more than you know. More to listen to and read Gildenmyth, all our stories and books: https://gildenmyth.com Inside The Home Loan, our sister podcast: https://insidethehomeloan.com The Sleeping Almanac is also a free podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sleeping-almanac/id1896899316 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033vbQDixCCfxEWvl1XFJQ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/17ca51a7-c6fc-4d27-a66a-c5a2449220a6 Or wherever you listen: https://podcast.thesleepingalmanac.com #shepherdofhermas #didache #apostolicfathers #codexsinaiticus #lostbooks #sleepstory #bedtimestory #sleepstoriesforadults #fallasleepfast #insomnia #apocrypha #earlychristianity #history #thelostbooks

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   1. 0:00Welcome
   2. 4:46The Book at the Back
   3. 11:29The Man Who Was Sold
   4. 17:08The Old Woman Who Grew Younger
   5. 23:43The Beast on the Road
   6. 29:58The Shepherd Comes to the House
   7. 35:21Twelve Commandments
   8. 46:37The Elm and the Vine
   9. 52:45The Willow That Would Not Die
   10. 58:21One Repentance More
   11. 1:04:32How Rome Did Sunday
   12. 1:15:12Nearly the Bible
   13. 1:21:12Goodnight. And the Sewing
   14. 1:29:15Calm music to drift off

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6. The Odyssey Sleep Stories · 11 Hour Compilation Part 1 · The Wrong Shore to the Sirens

   10.11.202610 Std. 60 Min.Staffel 4BonusAls Nächstes

   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 …

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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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   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 Greek Mythology sleep stories from this feed in one long episode, told back to back with short pauses between them, then a long stretch of quiet music so it keeps playing through the night. It is the same compilation that airs live on our YouTube channel tonight.

   In this episode:
   0:00:00 Welcome
   0:00:39 The Wrong Shore
   1:44:07 The City Taken by a Story
   3:41:21 Nobody and the Giant
   5:21:46 The Almost Home
   6:59:25 The Night of Old Friends
   8:31:34 The Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis
   10:22:01 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=dCsAKAvuKp4
   More stories and first looks at new seasons: gildenmyth.com

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   1. 0:00Welcome
   2. 0:31The Wrong Shore
   3. 1:43:59The City Taken by a Story
   4. 3:41:13Nobody and the Giant
   5. 5:21:38The Almost Home
   6. 6:59:17The Night of Old Friends
   7. 8:31:26The Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis
   8. 10:21:53Calm music, the long night

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7. Gospel of Mary · The Full Story of the Books the Ground Gave Back · 3 Hour Sleep Story

   09.11.20263 Std.Staffel 6 · Folge 9Als Nächstes

   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 …

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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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   Hear every new episode early, weeks before it airs, as a Lamplighter: gildenmyth.com

   The Sleeping Almanac is also a shelf of books, bedtime stories to read and mythology coloring books: gildenmyth.com/books

   Books recovered through storerooms, excavation and the antiquities trade. A synagogue storeroom in Cairo that accumulated sacred writings and everyday documents over centuries. A grave in the sand at Akhmim in Upper Egypt with a small parchment book laid in beside the body, and in it a gospel that tells the resurrection with a cross that walks out of the tomb and answers a voice from heaven. A codex bought in Cairo in 1896, with uncertain earlier provenance, whose publication was delayed until 1955 after scholarly work, a burst water pipe and war. It holds the Gospel of Mary. Tonight all of them, told with the finding stories at their true length and the surviving passages retold. Mary's surviving vision of the soul passing four powers, with part of an encounter lost, and six opening pages and four middle pages missing. Andrew doubting, Peter angry, and Levi answering him. And at the end, three warnings, each smaller than the last, about wanting a scrap to say something it does not say. A three hour sleep story, the ninth night of Season Six, The Lost Books. Told through the recovered books and their documented histories, with an imagined Ethiopian copyist finishing the last gathering of a book preserved within a continuing scriptural tradition. Every finding story here was checked. The books say what they say, and an authentic book is not the same as a true event. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome 3:31 The Room, a Third Time 9:39 The Storeroom Behind the Wall 19:25 The Small Book in the Grave 27:07 The Cross That Walked Out 34:22 One Image, Then Away 40:17 The Book Bought in January 45:56 The Water Pipe and Two Wars 51:15 The Missing Pages 59:39 What Mary Saw 1:05:14 Peter and Levi 1:10:59 The Warnings 1:20:16 Goodnight. And the Gathering He Finished 1:29:24 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 first eight nights are on the channel now. Next: the tower built of souls, the Shepherd of Hermas, and how Rome did Sunday. If this helps you rest, subscribing helps more than you know. More to listen to and read Gildenmyth, all our stories and books: https://gildenmyth.com Inside The Home Loan, our sister podcast: https://insidethehomeloan.com The Sleeping Almanac is also a free podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sleeping-almanac/id1896899316 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033vbQDixCCfxEWvl1XFJQ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/17ca51a7-c6fc-4d27-a66a-c5a2449220a6 Or wherever you listen: https://podcast.thesleepingalmanac.com #gospelofmary #cairogenizah #berlincodex #gospelofpeter #lostbooks #sleepstory #bedtimestory #sleepstoriesforadults #fallasleepfast #insomnia #apocrypha #biblicalarchaeology #history #thelostbooks

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   1. 0:00Welcome
   2. 3:32The Room, a Third Time
   3. 9:39The Storeroom Behind the Wall
   4. 19:25The Small Book in the Grave
   5. 27:07The Cross That Walked Out
   6. 34:22One Image, Then Away
   7. 40:17The Book Bought in January
   8. 45:56The Water Pipe and Two Wars
   9. 51:15The Missing Pages
   10. 59:39What Mary Saw
   11. 1:05:14Peter and Levi
   12. 1:10:59The Warnings
   13. 1:20:16Goodnight. And the Gathering He Finished
   14. 1:29:24Calm music to drift off

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8. Greek Myth Music · 3 Hour Sleep Music · Aegean Night Ambience for Deep Sleep

   08.11.20262 Std. 59 Min.BonusAls Nächstes

   Subscribing on YouTube helps the show grow, even if you only listen here: youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanacThe Sleeping Almanac is also a shelf of books, bedtime stories to read and mythology coloring books …

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   Subscribing on YouTube helps the show grow, even if you only listen here: youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac

   The Sleeping Almanac is also a shelf of books, bedtime stories to read and mythology coloring books: gildenmyth.com/books

   Three hours of calm music from the world of Greek myth, made to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. A bonus for the quiet nights, the music from our live sleep stream of September 9, three hours with no talking at all.

   Tonight is the Aegean after dark. Two long pieces drift into one another, the dusk coast of Aphrodite and the deep starfield of Nyx, goddess of night herself, so the music keeps moving instead of looping back on itself every few minutes.

   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=olArluRkVVI
   More stories and first looks at new seasons: gildenmyth.com

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9. Gospel of Thomas · The Full Story of the Gospel With No Story · 3 Hour Sleep Story

   07.11.20263 Std.Staffel 6 · Folge 8Als Nächstes

   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 …

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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

   Hear every new episode early, weeks before it airs, as a Lamplighter: gildenmyth.com

   The Sleeping Almanac is also a shelf of books, bedtime stories to read and mythology coloring books: gildenmyth.com/books

   A sayings gospel without a continuous account of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. A hundred and fourteen sayings, including dialogue and brief settings. Tonight the Gospel of Thomas, walked through room by room the way you would walk through a house you had only ever seen the front of: the farm, where the sayings are about seeds and fields and fish; the strange room at the back, where the inside is made like the outside and the two become one; the room with the window, where the sayings are about a lamp and a light; the ones only Thomas has, the lion, the assassin practising on a wall, the woman whose jar ran empty on the road home; and the hard sayings, given once, plainly, and set down. Then the story of the book found twice: a rubbish heap outside a Greek speaking town in Egypt where scraps of these same sayings came out of the sand fifty years before the jar, and were later matched to the Coptic collection. And two more books whose names you may know, Philip with his bridal chamber and the companion line with the hole in the papyrus, and Mary, pointed at and left for the ninth night. A three hour sleep story, the eighth night of Season Six, The Lost Books. Framed by an imagined museum visit in Cairo and an imagined Ethiopian copyist in his round highland church. Retold from the surviving texts in paraphrase, with brief attributed quotations. The episode reports the collection without claiming to establish which sayings go back to Jesus. An authentic book is not the same as a true event. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome 4:40 The Book With Its Title at the End 10:20 The Farm 16:45 The Ones Only Thomas Has 26:09 The Strange Room 31:56 The Lamp and the Light 39:54 The Hard Sayings 46:30 The Rubbish Heap 54:39 The Rest of the Sayings, Gently 1:05:09 Philip, and the Bridal Chamber 1:10:41 Mary 1:15:28 What Kind of Book 1:21:24 Goodnight. And the Sayings He Does Not Need 1:27:22 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 first seven nights are on the channel now. Next: the books the ground gave back, the Berlin Codex and the Gospel of Mary, and the finding story told properly. If this helps you rest, subscribing helps more than you know. More to listen to and read Gildenmyth, all our stories and books: https://gildenmyth.com Inside The Home Loan, our sister podcast: https://insidethehomeloan.com The Sleeping Almanac is also a free podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sleeping-almanac/id1896899316 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033vbQDixCCfxEWvl1XFJQ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/17ca51a7-c6fc-4d27-a66a-c5a2449220a6 Or wherever you listen: https://podcast.thesleepingalmanac.com #gospelofthomas #naghammadi #oxyrhynchus #gospelofphilip #lostbooks #sleepstory #bedtimestory #sleepstoriesforadults #fallasleepfast #insomnia #apocrypha #gnosticgospels #history #thelostbooks

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10. Secret Book of John · The Full Story of Eden From the Other Side · 3 Hour Sleep Story

    06.11.20263 Std.Staffel 6 · Folge 7Als Nächstes

    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 …

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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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    The season turns over tonight. For six nights you have heard the same story told by people who believed heaven was above: the sons of heaven came down, they taught, they were judged. Tonight a book from the Nag Hammadi collection that gives a strikingly different account of creation. The Secret Book of John, in which the one who made the world is not the highest thing there is, and does not know it, and the ones who came down to the daughters of men were not rebels against him but his own servants, sent to do exactly what they did. The same descent, the same metals, the same daughters, told from below. A man walking out of the Temple with a question, and a figure on a mountain that is a father and a mother and a son. The one at the top who cannot be named, and the powers below him, and the lower maker who does not know what lies above. The thought that acted alone. The seven with the faces of animals. A man made by a committee of angels, one for each limb, lying on the ground unable to move until they were tricked into giving him the only thing worth having. The tree, the eagle, and the flood, all seen from the other side. Then two more books from the same jar: what Adam told Seth at the end of his life, and the ruler who called himself god of the blind, and Norea, the daughter whom Noah refused entry to the ark and who burned it. And the name of the maker, said once, slowly, at the moment the book gives it, and then never again. A three hour sleep story, the seventh night of Season Six, The Lost Books. Framed by an imagined museum visit in Cairo and an imagined Ethiopian copyist at work at his desk. Retold from the surviving texts in paraphrase, with brief attributed quotations. Every claim about the codices, the museum and the readers was checked. An authentic book is not the same as a true event. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome 5:28 The Room in Cairo 11:05 The Man Who Left the Temple 17:01 The One Who Cannot Be Named 23:37 The Thought Without a Partner 30:35 Made by Committee 37:02 The Tree and the Eagle 44:04 The Same Descent, From Below 52:10 What Adam Told Seth 1:00:09 The Blind God 1:07:54 Norea and the Ark 1:13:43 The Hole in the System 1:23:39 Goodnight. And the Leaf He Will Not Copy 1:29:35 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 first six nights are on the channel now. Next: the gospel with no story, the Gospel of Thomas, a book made only of sayings. If this helps you rest, subscribing helps more than you know. More to listen to and read Gildenmyth, all our stories and books: https://gildenmyth.com Inside The Home Loan, our sister podcast: https://insidethehomeloan.com The Sleeping Almanac is also a free podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sleeping-almanac/id1896899316 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033vbQDixCCfxEWvl1XFJQ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/17ca51a7-c6fc-4d27-a66a-c5a2449220a6 Or wherever you listen: https://podcast.thesleepingalmanac.com #secretbookofjohn #naghammadi #gnostic #apocryphonofjohn #copticmuseum #lostbooks #sleepstory #bedtimestory #sleepstoriesforadults #fallasleepfast #insomnia #apocrypha #gnosticism #history #thelostbooks

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    1. 0:00Welcome
    2. 5:28The Room in Cairo
    3. 11:05The Man Who Left the Temple
    4. 17:01The One Who Cannot Be Named
    5. 23:37The Thought Without a Partner
    6. 30:35Made by Committee
    7. 37:03The Tree and the Eagle
    8. 44:04The Same Descent, From Below
    9. 52:10What Adam Told Seth
    10. 1:00:09The Blind God
    11. 1:07:54Norea and the Ark
    12. 1:13:43The Hole in the System
    13. 1:23:39Goodnight. And the Leaf He Will Not Copy
    14. 1:29:35Calm music to drift off

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11. Mesopotamian Myth Music · 3 Hour Sleep Music · Ziggurat Night Ambience

    05.11.20262 Std. 59 Min.BonusAls Nächstes

    Subscribing on YouTube helps the show grow, even if you only listen here: youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanacThe Sleeping Almanac is also a shelf of books, bedtime stories to read and mythology coloring books …

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    Three hours of calm music from the world of Mesopotamian 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 warm night in the land between the rivers, a temple tower pale under a thin moon, reeds moving on the water, carried in one long piece that turns into a second, slower theme and back again, so the music keeps drifting instead of looping every few minutes.

    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.

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12. Book of Enoch · The Son of Man and the Complete Parables Only Ethiopia Kept · 3 Hour Sleep Story

    04.11.20263 Std.Staffel 6 · Folge 6Als Nächstes

    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 …

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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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    Thirty five chapters in the middle of the Book of Enoch, preserved in Ge'ez, with no identified Aramaic or Greek manuscript witness to the Parables. Their absence among identified cave fragments does not prove the ancient collection never held them. Tonight, the Book of Parables, opened whole: a figure with a head of days and hair white like wool, and beside him one who looks like a man, chosen and hidden before the sun was made, the staff of the righteous and the hope of the troubled of heart. Four voices around a throne, and the fourth voice keeping the accusers out. Wisdom coming down to look for a house and going home to sit with the angels. Six mountains of metal that melt like wax so there is no iron for war. Two monsters parted on one day, one for the sea and one for the desert. The thunder waiting in its place of rest, the hail a good angel, the mist with a room of its own, and a measure for the rain. Angels flying north with cords to find the ones the sea took. The oath that holds the sea behind the sand. And the name given at the end to the man who watched it all, that later readers in another faith recognised, and have argued about since. Then the two dreams Enoch had as a boy, the sky falling, and the whole of history as a white bull and a flock of sheep among wild beasts, and the ten weeks of the world that end with weeks without number. A three hour sleep story, the sixth night of Season Six, The Lost Books, and the middle of the season. Framed by an imagined copyist opening the box of leaves he has already copied in a round highland church in Ethiopia. The Book of Enoch is scripture in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and is also among the sacred books preserved by Beta Israel. Manuscripts and readers now exist beyond those communities. This is a Jewish book, usually dated before or around the time of Jesus, without naming him, and it says what it says. An authentic book is not the same as a true event. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome 4:36 The Book in the Middle 10:51 Three Parables 17:22 The Fourth Voice 23:32 The Head of Days 29:52 The Mountains That Melt 35:40 The Two Monsters 42:36 The Cords and the Oath 50:06 The Name That Was Given 57:40 The White Bull and the Star 1:06:08 The Sheep and the Seventy Shepherds 1:17:06 Ten Weeks 1:24:13 Goodnight. And the Leaves Already Done 1:29:38 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 first five nights are on the channel now. Next: Eden from the other side, the Secret Book of John, in the Coptic museum in Cairo. If this helps you rest, subscribing helps more than you know. More to listen to and read Gildenmyth, all our stories and books: https://gildenmyth.com Inside The Home Loan, our sister podcast: https://insidethehomeloan.com The Sleeping Almanac is also a free podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sleeping-almanac/id1896899316 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033vbQDixCCfxEWvl1XFJQ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/17ca51a7-c6fc-4d27-a66a-c5a2449220a6 Or wherever you listen: https://podcast.thesleepingalmanac.com

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13. All Souls Day and Dziady · Church, Candles, Forefathers' Eve, the Full Story · 11 Hour Sleep Story

    03.11.202611 Std.Staffel 7BonusAls Nächstes

    Eleven hours for sleep. The complete story is told once, followed by the same quiet ambience through the rest of the night. This bonus accompanies the holiday live stream.Two nights ago a table was set in a …

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    Eleven hours for sleep. The complete story is told once, followed by the same quiet ambience through the rest of the night. This bonus accompanies the holiday live stream.

    Two nights ago a table was set in a wooden house, and a place was left empty, and a woman said her father's name to a chair. Tonight, in our imagined village, a priest walks past that house on his way home from saying the office for the dead, sees the candle in the window, knows exactly what it means, and keeps walking.

    The 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.

    The second of two specials that open Season Seven, the Slavic season. How Christian days of remembrance shared a season with household customs, sometimes overlapping and sometimes meeting opposition. The slips of paper with the names of the dead handed in at the church door. A Polish burial ground on the first of November, lit like a town. A boy from the borderland who grew up to write a short verse play about a chapel at night, three kinds of ghost and one strange line, and how that play became the book a whole nation carries. And a night in Warsaw when the play was closed. Told plainly and slowly, distinguishing historical accounts, poetic invention and our imagined village.

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    Chapters
    0:00 Welcome
    4:30 The Same Night, Another Name
    11:39 Two Days at the Start of November
    22:40 The Long Argument
    29:15 The Souls' Day
    36:25 A Burial Ground Lit Like a Town
    43:27 The Boy From the Borderland
    51:48 A Chapel at Night
    57:55 Three Kinds of Ghost
    1:05:20 The Line the Play Is Built On
    1:11:30 The Poem That Became a Country
    1:20:05 The Night of the Closed Theatre
    1:25:09 Goodnight. And the Two Candles
    1:30:51 Rain ambience to drift off

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14. Book of Jubilees · The Full Story Behind the Angel and the Heavenly Tablets · 3 Hour Sleep Story

    02.11.20263 Std.Staffel 6 · Folge 5Als Nächstes

    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 …

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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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    An angel reading aloud to Moses from tablets that were written before the world was made, and a man on a mountain writing it down. Tonight, the Book of Jubilees opened properly: a book that retells Genesis through law and heavenly tablets. The garden of Eden as a temple, with Adam brought in after forty days and Eve after eighty, and the temple incense burned at its gate on the day they left. The animals going quiet. Cain killed by his own house of stone. The book of medicines an angel taught Noah for the sickness the spirits cause. The accuser who proposed the test on the mountain and stood at the altar and was put to shame when the knife stopped, and who was bound for five days behind the people on the night of the lamb so he could not speak against them. Abraham building the first booths with a wreath on his head. Levi counted as a tithe, the tenth son from the youngest, and given the old books to keep and renew. The children with white hair, and the promise that the world is healed by reading. A three hour sleep story, the fifth night of Season Six, The Lost Books. Framed by an imagined copyist taking the book down from his shelf in a round highland church in Ethiopia. The Book of Jubilees, Mashafa Kufale, is scripture in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church today, whole, in Ge'ez, and it was kept by the Jews of Ethiopia too. An authentic book is not the same as a true event, and this one is authentic, written in Hebrew about a hundred and fifty years before Christ, quoted by the church fathers, found in pieces in the Dead Sea caves and under another book in a library in Milan. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome 4:35 The Book of Division 12:12 The Ledger of the World 19:19 Twenty Two Works 25:51 The Garden That Was a Temple 32:31 What Cain's House Did 39:42 The Prince and the Knife 46:06 The Night the Accuser Was Bound 54:40 The Book Noah Wrote 1:01:51 The First Booths 1:08:11 Levi's Right Hand 1:16:24 The Children With White Hair 1:23:17 Goodnight. And the Book Still Kept 1:30:10 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 first four nights are on the channel now. Next: the Book of Parables, the Son of Man and the book only Ethiopia kept. If this helps you rest, subscribing helps more than you know. More to listen to and read Gildenmyth, all our stories and books: https://gildenmyth.com Inside The Home Loan, our sister podcast: https://insidethehomeloan.com The Sleeping Almanac is also a free podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sleeping-almanac/id1896899316 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033vbQDixCCfxEWvl1XFJQ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/17ca51a7-c6fc-4d27-a66a-c5a2449220a6 Or wherever you listen: https://podcast.thesleepingalmanac.com #bookofjubilees #bookofenoch #deadseascrolls #mastema #gardenofeden #bindingofisaac #passover #lostbooks #sleepstory #bedtimestory #sleepstoriesforadults #fallasleepfast #insomnia #apocrypha #ethiopianorthodox #history #thelostbooks

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15. Dziady · The Full Story of the Slavic Halloween When the Dead Come to Supper · 11 Hour Sleep Story

    01.11.202611 Std.Staffel 7BonusAls Nächstes

    Eleven hours for sleep. The complete story is told once, followed by the same quiet ambience through the rest of the night. This bonus accompanies the holiday live stream.Tonight there is a place set at the …

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    Eleven hours for sleep. The complete story is told once, followed by the same quiet ambience through the rest of the night. This bonus accompanies the holiday live stream.

    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 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.

    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.

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    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

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16. Book of Enoch · The Full Story of the Calendar That Split a People · 3 Hour Sleep Story

    30.10.20263 Std.Staffel 6 · Folge 4Als Nächstes

    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 …

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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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    A year of three hundred and sixty four days. Fifty two weeks exactly, every feast on the same weekday forever, and wrong about the sun. Tonight, the 364 day calendar in the Book of Enoch, Jubilees and several texts among the Dead Sea Scrolls, and what it did to the people who kept it: a feast of the covenant on a Sunday for them and another day for the city, the moon that comes in ten days too soon, the four days at the corners of the year that were the days of Noah's flood, a priest who confronted the Teacher on a day of fasting, an encounter some scholars interpret as a calendar dispute, a letter of rulings addressed to a figure whose identity remains uncertain, and then the thirteen Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice, one for each Sabbath of a quarter, in which the beams and doors of the temple above are told to praise, and the innermost room has a sound of stillness in it, and a copy of which was found in the ruins of the fortress of Masada. A three hour sleep story, the fourth night of Season Six, The Lost Books. Framed by an imagined museum visit and an imagined Ethiopian copyist whose calendar has thirteen months. The Book of Enoch and the Book of Jubilees are scripture in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church today. One paragraph of sums, and then no more. An authentic book is not the same as a true event, and a real year that real people kept is still real when the sun disagrees. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome 4:25 Fifty Two Weeks Exactly 11:24 The Moon That Came Too Soon 18:44 The Feast on the Fifteenth 25:43 A Day of Atonement Disputed 31:51 The Sky Book, Once More 37:59 One Quarrel Among Several 44:57 Thirteen Songs for Thirteen Sabbaths 52:10 The Seventh Song 59:30 The Chariot and the Stillness 1:07:14 The Rock 1:15:22 Why a Calendar Splits a People 1:22:53 Goodnight. And the Month of the Small Days 1:29:31 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 first three nights are on the channel now. Next: the Book of Jubilees, the angel and the heavenly tablets. If this helps you rest, subscribing helps more than you know. More to listen to and read Gildenmyth, all our stories and books: https://gildenmyth.com Inside The Home Loan, our sister podcast: https://insidethehomeloan.com The Sleeping Almanac is also a free podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sleeping-almanac/id1896899316 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033vbQDixCCfxEWvl1XFJQ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/17ca51a7-c6fc-4d27-a66a-c5a2449220a6 Or wherever you listen: https://podcast.thesleepingalmanac.com #bookofenoch #bookofjubilees #deadseascrolls #qumran #calendar #masada #lostbooks #sleepstory #bedtimestory #sleepstoriesforadults #fallasleepfast #insomnia #apocrypha #ethiopianorthodox #history #thelostbooks

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17. Noah's Birth · The Full Story of the Child Feared to Be Nephilim · 3 Hour Sleep Story

    29.10.20263 Std.Staffel 6 · Folge 3Als Nächstes

    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 …

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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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    A baby is born in a house before the flood, and when he opens his eyes the whole house lights up like the sun, and his father runs, because in that generation a child who was too beautiful might be one of theirs. Tonight, the birth of Noah as the Book of Enoch tells it, and as the Dead Sea Scrolls tell it longer, in the first person, in a roll so badly damaged it was the last of the seven from the first cave to be opened: Lamech afraid, his wife Bitenosh swearing by the King of the heavens that the child is his, Methuselah walking to the ends of the earth to ask Enoch, and the answer that is a name. Then Noah in his own words, opening the first wine of the new world on a mountain and dividing the earth among his sons. Then Abram on the night of entering Egypt, dreaming of a cedar and a palm tree from one root, and Sarai weeping, and the court poem that describes her, and the two years, and his hands on the king's head. Then the walk round the edges of the land. The Book of Giants recapped in a chapter, the priest Levi taught the woods for the altar by his grandfather, and a dying priest telling his sons to keep the books. A three hour sleep story, the third night of Season Six, The Lost Books. Framed by an imagined visit to the museum in Jerusalem whose roof is shaped like the lid of a jar, and by an imagined copyist in a round highland church in Ethiopia. The Book of Enoch is scripture in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. Source claims checked against the texts and scholarship, with uncertain names and damaged passages marked as such. An authentic book is not the same as a true event. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome 5:39 The Roll That Would Not Open 11:02 The Child Who Lit the Room 18:07 What Bitenosh Said 24:10 The Errand to the Ends of the Earth 31:03 The Giants, Once More 36:19 Noah, in His Own Words 45:45 The Priest Who Was Taught to Read 53:16 The Cedar and the Palm 59:33 The Most Beautiful Woman in Egypt 1:06:43 The Man Who Walked Round the Land 1:15:49 Why It Was Kept 1:21:22 Goodnight. And the Lamp That Was Only a Lamp 1:27:50 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. Nights one and two, The Judgment of the Watchers and The People of the Caves, are on the channel now. Next: the calendar that split a people. If this helps you rest, subscribing helps more than you know. More to listen to and read Gildenmyth, all our stories and books: https://gildenmyth.com Inside The Home Loan, our sister podcast: https://insidethehomeloan.com The Sleeping Almanac is also a free podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sleeping-almanac/id1896899316 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033vbQDixCCfxEWvl1XFJQ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/17ca51a7-c6fc-4d27-a66a-c5a2449220a6 Or wherever you listen: https://podcast.thesleepingalmanac.com #bookofgiants #bookofenoch #noah #deadseascrolls #genesisapocryphon #lostbooks #sleepstory #bedtimestory #sleepstoriesforadults #fallasleepfast #insomnia #apocrypha #ethiopianorthodox #history #mythology #thelostbooks

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18. Halloween Sleep Music in Full · 3 Hours of Vintage Parlor Waltzes by Lamplight

    29.10.20263 Std.BonusAls Nächstes

    Three hours of calm vintage Halloween music for sleep. A bonus from the same music made for our holiday live stream, with no talking.An oil lamp turned low in a quiet parlor, a carved lantern on the mantel, and …

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    Three hours of calm vintage Halloween music for sleep. A bonus from the same music made for our holiday live stream, with no talking.

    An oil lamp turned low in a quiet parlor, a carved lantern on the mantel, and slow piano waltzes with cello and harp. The music is newly made in the manner of early twentieth century parlor music.

    The music is original to the show, made with AI music tools and mixed gently for sleep.

    If it helps you rest, follow the show so each new story and night of music arrives on its own. A rating on Apple Podcasts helps other listeners find us.

    Watch the live on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCJof_1Ws24
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    More stories and books: gildenmyth.com

    Chapters
    0:00 The first hour
    1:00:00 The second hour
    2:00:00 The third hour

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19. Dead Sea Scrolls · The Full Story of the People of the Caves · 3 Hour Sleep Story

    27.10.20263 Std.Staffel 6 · Folge 2Als Nächstes

    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 …

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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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    Who put the jars in the cliff? Tonight, the Dead Sea Scrolls and the people who kept and used them: a rule book that measured punishment in days, thirty of them for falling asleep in the meeting, a rule prescribing study during a third of every night, two spirits in every heart, a scroll made of copper listing sixty four treasure locations whose secure identification remains unresolved, the longest scroll of all, hidden under a floor for years, in which God speaks in the first person about a temple that was never built, a war scroll with battle formations and trumpet signals, a book that was found twice, half a century apart, in a Cairo storeroom and a desert cave, a priest from three verses of Genesis raised into a heavenly judge, Josephus, who wrote an ancient account of the Essenes, the oath they swore to keep the books and the names of the angels, and the handwriting model named Enoch, presented in a 2025 study. A three hour sleep story, the second night of Season Six, The Lost Books. Framed by an imagined visit to the museum in Jerusalem whose roof is shaped like the lid of a jar, and by an imagined copyist in a round highland church in Ethiopia. Source claims checked against the scrolls and scholarship, with uncertain identities left uncertain. An authentic book is not the same as a true event, and these are surviving ancient manuscripts. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome 5:46 The Room With the Roof Like a Lid 11:27 The Scroll Made of Copper 18:47 The Longest Scroll 25:32 One Day in the Rule 32:58 The Two Spirits 39:53 The Book That Was Found Twice 46:48 A Creature of Clay 54:34 Banners and Trumpets 1:02:28 The Priest Who Was a Judge 1:08:08 The Man Who Wrote About Them 1:15:34 The Machine Named Enoch 1:22:48 Goodnight. And the Church on the Hill 1:29:46 Calm music to drift off The Sleeping Almanac retells the world's oldest myths and stories as three hour sleep stories for adults. Calm narration, a slow music bed, no sudden sounds, no mid roll ads. New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday night. Season Six, The Lost Books, runs twelve nights from October 25. Night one, The Judgment of the Watchers, is on the channel now. Next: the child who lit the room, Noah’s birth in Enoch and the Genesis Apocryphon. If this helps you rest, subscribing helps more than you know. More to listen to and read Gildenmyth, all our stories and books: https://gildenmyth.com Inside The Home Loan, our sister podcast: https://insidethehomeloan.com The Sleeping Almanac is also a free podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sleeping-almanac/id1896899316 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033vbQDixCCfxEWvl1XFJQ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/17ca51a7-c6fc-4d27-a66a-c5a2449220a6 Or wherever you listen: https://podcast.thesleepingalmanac.com #deadseascrolls #qumran #essenes #lostbooks #sleepstory #bedtimestory #sleepstoriesforadults #fallasleepfast #insomnia #apocrypha #bookofenoch #copperscroll #history #archaeology #thelostbooks

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20. Anunnaki and the Book of Enoch Sleep Stories · 11 Hour Compilation · Five Specials in One Night

    27.10.202610 Std. 60 Min.Staffel 5BonusAls Nächstes

    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 …

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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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    The Sleeping Almanac is also a shelf of books, bedtime stories to read and mythology coloring books: gildenmyth.com/books

    A bonus for the long nights: five Anunnaki and Book of Enoch sleep stories from this feed in one long episode, told back to back with short pauses between them, then a long stretch of quiet music so it keeps playing through the night. It is the same compilation that airs live on our YouTube channel tonight.

    In this episode:
    0:00:00 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
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21. Book of Enoch · The Full Story of the Judgment of the Watchers · 3 Hour Sleep Story

    25.10.20263 Std.Staffel 6 · Folge 1Als Nächstes

    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 …

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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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    Two hundred watchmen came down a mountain and would not go back. Tonight, the Book of Enoch tells what was decided about them, and how, and it is not a war in heaven. It is a sentence, carried down by four messengers with four instructions: a word in Noah's ear before anything else, the one who taught the making of knives put under rough stones in a hole in the desert, the giants turned on each other, and their leader bound under the hills for seventy generations. And then, because this is the Book of Enoch, a journey. The man who carried the answer is taken by the hand and walked to the ends of the earth and shown where the winds are kept, the fire in the west that receives every setting of the sun, the mouths of all the rivers, seven mountains of pearl and jacinth and alabaster with a summit of sapphire, the empty place where the stars that came up late are kept, the mountain in the west with four hollows for the dead, one bright with a spring, a tree like no other on the hill where the throne will be, with fruit like the dates of a palm, and, at the far edge of the east, the garden, still there, with the tree that the book says the first man and woman ate from. A three hour sleep story, the first night of Season Six, The Lost Books. Read slowly, in a low voice, beside a lamp in a round highland church in Ethiopia in the rain, by a copyist who is ruling the last leaf of the copy he began in our two Lost Books specials. Retold from the text, chapter by chapter, with source claims checked against primary texts and scholarship. The copyist and his room are an imagined frame. The Book of Enoch is scripture in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. An authentic book is not the same as a true event, and this one is told as what it is: a real book, read the way it was read. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome 6:25 The Last Gathering 11:10 What Was Decided 17:27 Seventy Generations 24:05 The Plant 30:19 The Voice by the River, Again 38:06 The Ends of the Earth 44:58 The Stars That Were Late 51:32 The Hollow Places 58:26 The Tree Like No Other 1:06:25 The Garden in the East 1:14:12 The Gates of the Winds 1:23:55 Goodnight. And the Ruled Leaf 1:30:30 Calm music to drift off The Sleeping Almanac retells the world's oldest myths and stories as three hour sleep stories for adults. Calm narration, a slow music bed, no sudden sounds, no mid roll ads. New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday night. Season Six, The Lost Books, runs twelve nights from October 25: the people of the caves, the child who lit the room, the calendar that split a people, the angel and the heavenly tablets, the book only Ethiopia kept, Eden from the other side, the gospel with no story, the books the ground gave back, the tower built of souls, the Christmas story the Bible left out, and why they were left out. If this helps you rest, subscribing helps more than you know. More to listen to and read Gildenmyth, all our stories and books: https://gildenmyth.com Inside The Home Loan, our sister podcast: https://insidethehomeloan.com The Sleeping Almanac is also a free podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sleeping-almanac/id1896899316 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033vbQDixCCfxEWvl1XFJQ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/17ca51a7-c6fc-4d27-a66a-c5a2449220a6 Or wherever you listen: https://podcast.thesleepingalmanac.com #bookofenoch #enoch #watchers #nephilim #lostbooks #sleepstory #bedtimestory #sleepstoriesforadults #fallasleepfast #insomnia #apocrypha #ethiopianorthodox #deadseascrolls #history #mythology #thelostbooks

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22. Egyptian Mythology Sleep Stories · 11 Hour Compilation Part 1 · Ra to the Death of Osiris

    25.10.202611 Std.Staffel 2BonusAls Nächstes

    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 …

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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

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23. Anunnaki · The Ancient Astronaut Theory in Full · What the Tablets Say · 3 Hour Sleep Story

    24.10.20263 Std.Staffel 5Als Nächstes

    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 …

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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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    For twelve nights this season told the oldest stories on earth the way the clay tells them. Tonight, the other story. The one most people mean when they say Anunnaki: a twelfth planet on a long slow orbit, visitors who came for gold, a worker made in a laboratory out of clay and blood, a memory the tablets are said to keep. It is told whole, at full length, the way the people who believe it tell it, with its wonder intact. And after each part, once and plainly, what the object is: what the word means in the dictionary, what the seal in Berlin actually shows, what the flood poem actually says, what the chromosome and the green tablets actually are. Nobody is scolded. Nobody is lectured. If you have the twelve nights in you, you decide; if not, you are welcome anyway, and you may simply sleep. A three hour sleep story set in a museum study room after closing, with two things on the table: a four thousand year old cylinder seal and a paperback from 1976. Both are real. Told with dignity for the man who wrote the book and for everyone who loves it. This is the thirteenth night of Season Five, standing outside the twelve, and it closes the season. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome 7:25 The Man Who Read Them Differently 14:48 An Older Idea 20:24 The Name 25:52 The Twelfth Planet 34:33 The Seal 41:51 The Gold 48:25 Clay and Blood 55:11 The Giants Who Were on the Earth 1:02:09 The Newer Voices 1:09:29 The Sudden City 1:19:34 Why It Is Loved 1:25:22 Goodnight. And the Seal in Its Case 1:30:11 Calm music to drift off The Sleeping Almanac retells the world's oldest myths and stories as three hour sleep stories for adults. Calm narration, a slow music bed, no sudden sounds, no mid roll ads. New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday night. If this helps you rest, subscribing helps more than you know. More to listen to and read Gildenmyth, all our stories and books: https://gildenmyth.com Inside The Home Loan, our sister podcast: https://insidethehomeloan.com The Sleeping Almanac is also a free podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sleeping-almanac/id1896899316 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033vbQDixCCfxEWvl1XFJQ Or wherever you listen: https://podcast.thesleepingalmanac.com This channel uses AI tools (script research, narration, visuals) under the direction of a human editor. Every episode is researched, reviewed, and revised before publication. #anunnaki #ancientastronauts #sitchin #sumerian #mesopotamia #sleepstory #bedtimestoriesforadults #sleepstoriesforadults #fallasleepfast #insomnia #history #mythology #ancientaliens

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24. Erra and Ishum: The Full Story of the Babylonian Poem of the Angry God | 3 Hour Sleep Story

    23.10.20263 Std.Staffel 5Als Nächstes

    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 …

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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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    Erra and Ishum is the only poem in this season whose author put his own name at the end and told us how he wrote it. He says it came to him in a dream, and that he wrote it down in the morning without adding a line. Tonight is a god of war who cannot settle, the Seven who were made to be used, the herald who talks him down, the statue whose gold went dull, the empty seat, and a tablet on a peg beside a door. A slow, calm 3 hour sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. You do not have to follow it. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning. These are retellings drawn from the real tablets and the real history. Where the old stories turn toward fear or cruelty, we turn gently toward comfort, choosing the telling that serves a calm night. Where scholars disagree, the disagreement is said out loud rather than smoothed over. Season Five of The Sleeping Almanac: Mesopotamia. Twelve nights. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome 5:38 The Man Who Had the Dream 10:58 The One Who Could Not Settle 15:20 The Seven 21:18 The Bolted Door 27:27 The Statue Needs Cleaning 33:22 The Seat Is Empty 39:26 What It Looked Like 49:33 The Speech 50:58 He Sat Down 56:37 The Remnant 1:00:53 The Blessing on the House 1:05:55 The Tablet on the Peg 1:11:16 Calm music to drift off More to listen to and read: Gildenmyth (all our stories and books): https://gildenmyth.com Mortgages in plain language, Inside The Home Loan: https://insidethehomeloan.com 🎧 The Sleeping Almanac is now a podcast. Follow so the next story finds you: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sleeping-almanac/id1896899316 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033vbQDixCCfxEWvl1XFJQ Or wherever you listen: https://podcast.thesleepingalmanac.com This channel uses AI tools (script research, narration, visuals) under the direction of a human editor. Every episode is researched, reviewed, and revised before publication. New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday at 6pm ET. #erra #sleepstory #mesopotamia #babylon #bedtimestoriesforadults #deepsleep #sleep #insomnia #calm #mythology

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25. Celtic Myth Music · 3 Hour Sleep Music · Candlelit Hall Before Samhain

    22.10.20262 Std. 60 Min.BonusAls Nächstes

    Subscribing on YouTube helps the show grow, even if you only listen here: youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanacThe Sleeping Almanac is also a shelf of books, bedtime stories to read and mythology coloring books …

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    Three hours of calm music from the world of Celtic myth, made to help you fall asleep and stay asleep through the whole night. A bonus for the quiet nights, the same music playing tonight on our live sleep stream, three hours with no talking at all.

    Tonight is a candlelit hall on a western coast in the last nights of October, the sea on the rocks somewhere below and the old year turning toward Samhain, carried in one long piece that returns in a darker, slower form, so the music keeps drifting instead of looping every few minutes. The music belongs to Cerridwen, the Welsh keeper of the cauldron of wisdom.

    The music is original to the show, made with AI music tools and mixed for sleep: no melody that swells, no percussion, nothing sudden.

    If it helps you sleep, follow the show so each new story and each new night of music arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it.

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26. All Souls Day and Dziady · Church, Candles, Forefathers' Eve, the Full Story · 3 Hour Sleep Story

    21.10.20263 Std.Staffel 7Als Nächstes

    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 …

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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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    Two nights ago a table was set in a wooden house, and a place was left empty, and a woman said her father's name to a chair. Tonight, in our imagined village, a priest walks past that house on his way home from saying the office for the dead, sees the candle in the window, knows exactly what it means, and keeps walking. The second of two specials that open Season Seven, the Slavic season. How Christian days of remembrance shared a season with household customs, sometimes overlapping and sometimes meeting opposition. The slips of paper with the names of the dead handed in at the church door. A Polish burial ground on the first of November, lit like a town. A boy from the borderland who grew up to write a short verse play about a chapel at night, three kinds of ghost and one strange line, and how that play became the book a whole nation carries. And a night in Warsaw when the play was closed. Told plainly and slowly, distinguishing historical accounts, poetic invention and our imagined village. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome 4:30 The Same Night, Another Name 11:39 Two Days at the Start of November 22:40 The Long Argument 29:15 The Souls' Day 36:25 A Burial Ground Lit Like a Town 43:27 The Boy From the Borderland 51:48 A Chapel at Night 57:55 Three Kinds of Ghost 1:05:20 The Line the Play Is Built On 1:11:30 The Poem That Became a Country 1:20:05 The Night of the Closed Theatre 1:25:09 Goodnight. And the Two Candles 1:30:51 Rain ambience to drift off The Sleeping Almanac retells the world's oldest myths and stories as three hour sleep stories for adults. Calm narration over the sound of real rain, no sudden sounds, no mid roll ads. New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday night, and live every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. Season Seven, the Slavic season, runs twelve nights from November 15: Vasilisa and the doll, Perun and the river, Baba Yaga, Koschei the Deathless, the Firebird, the Frog Princess, Ilya Muromets, Sadko, Father Frost, the bathhouse, the vampire graves of 1732, and Svyatogor. If this helps you rest, subscribing helps more than you know. More to listen to and read Gildenmyth, all our stories and books: https://gildenmyth.com Inside The Home Loan, our sister podcast: https://insidethehomeloan.com The Sleeping Almanac is also a free podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sleeping-almanac/id1896899316 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033vbQDixCCfxEWvl1XFJQ Or wherever you listen: https://podcast.thesleepingalmanac.com #allsoulsday #dziady #forefatherseve #mickiewicz #slavicfolklore #poland #zaduszki #daysofthedead #sleepstory #bedtimestory #sleepstoriesforadults #fallasleepfast #insomnia #history

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27. Mesopotamian Mythology Sleep Stories · 11 Hour Compilation Part 2 · Inanna's Descent to Erra

    20.10.202610 Std. 60 Min.Staffel 5BonusAls Nächstes

    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 …

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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 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
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28. Dziady · The Full Story of the Slavic Halloween When the Dead Come to Supper · 3 Hour Sleep Story

    19.10.20263 Std.Staffel 7Als Nächstes

    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 …

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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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    Tonight there is a place set at the table for somebody who is not coming. The chair has been left empty on purpose, the bowl in front of it is full, and in a moment somebody is going to say a name out loud in a quiet room and mean it. This is Dziady, the night of the grandfathers, recorded in differing household forms across parts of the Slavic lands, and still kept in a few places tonight while you fall asleep. The first of two Halloween specials that open Season Seven, the Slavic season. The stove that feeds the whole house. An early written account of these people, by a Byzantine secretary in the sixth century. The walk to the graves with bread wrapped in linen. The names said aloud at the head of the table, and the candle and morning dismissal in our pictured house. Told plainly and slowly, distinguishing recorded customs from the imagined house that carries the story. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome 5:13 The Extra Place 10:48 The Early Account 19:12 The People Without a Book 30:07 The House That Feeds 38:46 The Road to the Graves 47:09 The Names Said Aloud 51:59 The Ones Who Come Hungry 59:40 The Candle and the Window 1:05:16 The Other Door 1:12:10 The Dismissal 1:17:33 The Ones Who Wrote It Down 1:25:38 Goodnight. And the Place Still Set 1:32:07 Fireplace ambience to drift off The Sleeping Almanac retells the world's oldest myths and stories as three hour sleep stories for adults. Calm narration over the sound of a real log fire, no sudden sounds, no mid roll ads. New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday night, and live every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. Season Seven, the Slavic season, opens with two specials, Dziady and All Souls, and runs twelve nights from November 15: Vasilisa and the doll, Perun and the river, Baba Yaga, Koschei the Deathless, the Firebird, the Frog Princess, Ilya Muromets, Sadko, Father Frost, the bathhouse, the vampire graves of 1732, and Svyatogor. If this helps you rest, subscribing helps more than you know. More to listen to and read Gildenmyth, all our stories and books: https://gildenmyth.com Inside The Home Loan, our sister podcast: https://insidethehomeloan.com The Sleeping Almanac is also a free podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sleeping-almanac/id1896899316 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033vbQDixCCfxEWvl1XFJQ Or wherever you listen: https://podcast.thesleepingalmanac.com #dziady #slavichalloween #slavicmythology #halloween #daysofthedead #forefatherseve #sleepstory #bedtimestory #sleepstoriesforadults #fallasleepfast #insomnia #folklore #history #mythology

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29. Anzu and the Stolen Tablet of Destinies: The Full Story | 3 Hour Sleep Story

    17.10.20263 Std.Staffel 5Als Nächstes

    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 …

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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 🎧 The Sleeping Almanac is now a podcast. Follow so the next story finds you: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sleeping-almanac/id1896899316 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033vbQDixCCfxEWvl1XFJQ Or wherever you listen: https://podcast.thesleepingalmanac.com This channel uses AI tools (script research, narration, visuals) under the direction of a human editor. Every episode is researched, reviewed, and revised before publication. New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday at 6pm ET. #anzu #sleepstory #mesopotamia #ninurta #bedtimestoriesforadults #deepsleep #sleep #insomnia #calm #mythology

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30. Nergal and Ereshkigal: The Full Story of the Queen of the Underworld | 3 Hour Sleep Story

    16.10.20263 Std.Staffel 5Als Nächstes

    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 …

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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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    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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