The Sleeping Almanac

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  Anunnaki · The Tablets That Slept Three Thousand Years · 3 Hour Sleep Story 15.09.2026 3t

  The tablets that first wrote the Anunnaki slept under a hill for two and a half thousand years, and tonight is the story of how they came back. A slow, calm 3 hour sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. The fire that saved a library by baking its books, the grassy mound that kept them, a soldier copying an unreachable cliff, a quiet clerk who taught himself the oldest writing on earth at lunch, the broken tablet that held a flood, and a man in 1976 who read the same clay and told a very different story. Tonight both readings get their say, each in its own voice, and you can decide for yourself. Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. Chapters0:00 Welcome6:54 The Same Lamp11:32 The King Who Collected19:22 The Night the City Burned24:34 What Fire Does to Clay29:25 Two and a Half Thousand Years38:41 The Men With Shovels45:16 The Cliff at Behistun51:42 The Clerk Who Taught Himself57:10 The Eleventh Tablet1:05:47 The Man Who Read Them Differently1:20:23 The Long Chain of Hands1:27:04 Goodnight. And the Tablet in the Quiet Room1:35:05 Calm music to drift off Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZUkf3KRjIgEverything in one place: https://gildenmyth.com 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.comThis channel uses AI tools (script research, narration, visuals) under the direction of a human editor. Every episode is researched, reviewed, and revised before publication.
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  The Odyssey · The Raft at the Edge of the World · 3 Hour Sleep Story 13.09.2026 3t

  Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight the long stay on the island of Calypso ends, the gods in the high air decide the wanderer may go home at last, and he builds a raft with his own hands and sails alone by the stars. The sea has one more storm to send, and a kind goddess a veil to save him, before a gentle river carries him to rest on a bed of leaves under two olive trees. A calm, hopeful telling for sleep, calm enough to drift to and rich enough to stay awake for if you choose.Close your eyes. Let the fire on the beach burn low. There is nothing to do now but listen and rest.CHAPTERS0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire4:33 Chapter One: The Island Where Time Lay Down12:45 Chapter Two: The Man at the Shore21:32 Chapter Three: The Council in the High Air27:55 Chapter Four: The God on the Wide Water36:53 Chapter Five: The Choice Offered Once More45:46 Chapter Six: The Axe and the Trees54:44 Chapter Seven: The Stars on His Left Hand1:04:03 Chapter Eight: The Sea Remembers1:12:45 Chapter Nine: The River's Welcome1:18:58 Chapter Ten: The Bed of Leaves1:24:07 Chapter Eleven: The Dream Sent to a Princess1:28:29 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight and the Bed of Leaves Under the Two OlivesWatch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/4pguhDajTH8New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.🎙️ Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com📖 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com🕊️ Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.comThis show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.
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  Anunnaki · The Real Story the Tablets Tell · 3 Hour Sleep Story 11.09.2026 3t

  You have heard the word Anunnaki. Tonight we go all the way back to the clay the word was first pressed into. A slow, calm 3 hour Mesopotamian mythology sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. The oldest written stories on earth, told the way the tablets actually tell them: the gods who dug the rivers and went on strike, the making of people from clay and river water, a world so loud the gods could not sleep, a flood told plainly and resolved gently, the sages who came out of the sea, and a list of kings who reigned for impossible thousands of years, with the small quiet true thing that explains those numbers waiting in the tenth chapter. Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. Chapters 0:00 Welcome · The Lamp Is Lit 7:23 The Tablet House 17:45 Before Anyone Was Made 24:07 The Ones Who Carried the Baskets 28:32 The Night They Burned Their Tools 33:50 The God Who Had Intelligence 40:32 The Noise of a Full World 44:57 The Voice in the Reed Wall 49:50 Seven Days and Seven Nights 56:26 The Sages Who Came Out of the Water 1:07:58 The Kings Who Reigned in Thousands 1:17:01 What the Tablets Were For 1:26:00 Goodnight. And the Lamp in the Tablet House 1:30:43 Calm music to drift off Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W1xB4hEvgA Everything in one place: https://gildenmyth.com 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This channel uses AI tools (script research, narration, visuals) under the direction of a human editor. Every episode is researched, reviewed, and revised before publication.
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  The Odyssey · The Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis · 3 Hour Sleep Story 10.09.2026 3t

  Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight the ship must pass the three great dangers of the middle sea. First the meadow of the singing women, the Sirens, whose song no sailor is meant to survive. Then the narrow water between the cave and the whirlpool, Scylla and Charybdis, where the strait itself takes its toll. And last the green island of the sun and its forbidden cattle, and the storm that answers a broken oath. A grave and gentle telling for sleep, every danger named softly and never shown, calm enough to drift to and rich enough to stay awake for if you choose.Close your eyes. Let the fire on the beach burn low. There is nothing to do now but listen and rest.CHAPTERS0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire4:45 Chapter One: The Shore Lore of the Goddess14:14 Chapter Two: The Wind She Sent23:01 Chapter Three: The Meadow of the Singers33:56 Chapter Four: The Choice of Roads43:25 Chapter Five: The Toll of the Strait51:47 Chapter Six: The Green Island of the Sun1:01:59 Chapter Seven: The Second Becalming1:11:57 Chapter Eight: The Hunger That Broke the Oath1:21:28 Chapter Nine: The Sea Keeps Its Word1:30:18 Chapter Ten: The Grip on the Fig Tree1:36:35 Chapter Eleven: Nine Days on the Kind Current1:42:39 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight and the Softest Shore the Sea OwnedWatch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/xnPpfnBDTnENew episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.🎙️ Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com📖 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com🕊️ Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.comThis show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.
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  The Odyssey · The Night of Old Friends · 3 Hour Sleep Story 06.09.2026 3t

  Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight the travelers sail to the quiet edge of the world, where the living may speak once more with the friends they have lost. A blind prophet gives the way home, a mother is met again, and the great names of the old war come softly out of the mist to talk a while by a small fire. A tender, grave telling for sleep, calm enough to drift to and rich enough to stay awake for if you choose.Close your eyes. Let the fire on the beach burn low. There is nothing to do now but listen and rest.CHAPTERS0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire4:28 Chapter One: The Reminder at the Fire11:02 Chapter Two: The Young Man Who Missed the Sailing18:00 Chapter Three: The Edge of the World24:15 Chapter Four: The First Asking30:20 Chapter Five: The Old Man with the Golden Staff39:38 Chapter Six: His Mother's Face47:13 Chapter Seven: The Counting of the Queens54:47 Chapter Eight: The King Who Came Home to the Dark1:03:28 Chapter Nine: The Gladdest Ghost1:11:12 Chapter Ten: The Silence in the Meadow1:16:23 Chapter Eleven: The Far Figures1:23:48 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight and the Promise Kept at MorningWatch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/x4UEGwuLzvsNew episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.🎙️ Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com📖 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com🕊️ Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.comThis show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.
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  The Odyssey · The Almost Home · 3 Hour Sleep Story 05.09.2026 3t

  Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight the wind king gives a gift no one should open, home comes so close the watch fires can be seen, and a gentle enchantress on a green island keeps the weary travelers a whole slow year. This is the tale of the bag of winds and the house of Circe told for sleep, calm enough to drift to and rich enough to stay awake for if you choose.Close your eyes. Let the fire on the beach burn low. There is nothing to do now but listen and rest.CHAPTERS0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire4:30 Chapter One: The Floating Island11:15 Chapter Two: The Gift of the Tied Winds17:16 Chapter Three: Nine Days Awake at the Steering Oar23:35 Chapter Four: The Opening of the Bag29:23 Chapter Five: The Closed Door34:43 Chapter Six: The Harbor of the Giants43:39 Chapter Seven: The Island of the Low Smoke50:00 Chapter Eight: The House of the Singing Witch59:46 Chapter Nine: The Flower with the Black Root1:07:21 Chapter Ten: The Wand That Failed1:21:04 Chapter Eleven: The Year of Rest1:28:44 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight and the Year of RestWatch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/1eHamdubluUNew episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.🎙️ Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com📖 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com🕊️ Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.comThis show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.
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  The Odyssey · Nobody and the Giant · 3 Hour Sleep Story 03.09.2026 3t

  Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight the ships come to the island of the one eyed giant, and a clever captain saves his men with a cup of dark wine and a single word for a name. This is the tale of the Cyclops told gently for sleep, the guest law and the giant who broke it, the name that was No One, and the quiet escape under the warm wool of the rams at morning. Calm enough to drift to and rich enough to stay awake for if you choose.Close your eyes. Let the fire on the beach burn low. There is nothing to do now but listen and rest.CHAPTERS0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire4:43 Chapter One: The First Shore11:38 Chapter Two: The Priest's Wine15:40 Chapter Three: Nine Days of the Wrong Wind20:24 Chapter Four: The Honey Sweet Country26:21 Chapter Five: The Island of the Shepherd Giants37:22 Chapter Six: The Question of the Guest Law46:51 Chapter Seven: The Host Who Ate the Guest Law53:37 Chapter Eight: The Name That Was No One1:02:55 Chapter Nine: The Price of the Door1:08:45 Chapter Ten: Under the Rams at Morning1:18:46 Chapter Eleven: The Shout Across the Water1:29:19 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight and the Wake in the Dark WaterWatch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/dblcjNoUJkgNew episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.🎙️ Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com📖 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com🕊️ Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.comThis show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.
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  The Odyssey · The City Taken by a Story · 3 Hour Sleep Story 01.09.2026 3t

  Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight the story is the oldest trick ever told. Ten long years the war for Troy would not end, until one restless mind thought of a horse of wood and a city that opened its own gates. This is the fall of Troy told gently, from the singer at the fire to the ships turning at last for home, calm enough to drift to and rich enough to stay awake for if you choose.Close your eyes. Let the fire on the beach burn low. There is nothing to do now but listen and rest.CHAPTERS0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire4:43 Chapter One: The Song This Fire Will Not Steal9:33 Chapter Two: The Ten Years Told as Weather17:51 Chapter Three: The Mind the War Leaned On24:56 Chapter Four: The Beggar Inside the Walls34:24 Chapter Five: The Falling of the Brightest Star44:01 Chapter Six: The Armor and the Silence49:48 Chapter Seven: The Boy from Skyros58:30 Chapter Eight: The Archer and the Old Bow1:05:51 Chapter Nine: The Idea of the Horse1:17:13 Chapter Ten: The Night of Held Breath1:35:55 Chapter Eleven: The Ships Turn Home1:46:40 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight and the Ships Turning HomeWatch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/jXJmzh-NceoNew episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.🎙️ Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com📖 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com🕊️ Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.comThis show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.
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  The Odyssey · The Wrong Shore · 3 Hour Sleep Story 30.08.2026 3t

  Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight we open Season Four, the Odyssey, at the very beginning of the road to Troy. Long before the wooden horse, before the ten long years, a thousand ships put out to sea for the first time and made land on the wrong shore. This is the story of the false start, the wounded king, and the strange oracle that said the one who dealt the wound was the only one who could heal it. A slow, gentle telling for sleep, calm enough to drift to and rich enough to stay awake for if you choose.Close your eyes. Let the fire on the beach burn low. There is nothing to do now but listen and rest.CHAPTERS0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire4:44 Chapter One: The Morning After the Dawn12:34 Chapter Two: The Sea Without Signposts19:15 Chapter Three: The Landfall That Lied25:15 Chapter Four: The King of the Wrong Country35:04 Chapter Five: The Spear and the Wound42:09 Chapter Six: The Scattering48:36 Chapter Seven: The Years Between55:53 Chapter Eight: The Wound That Would Not Close1:03:45 Chapter Nine: The Beggar at the Door of the Kings1:15:07 Chapter Ten: The Rust of the Spear1:24:18 Chapter Eleven: The Guide Who Knew the Water1:34:07 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight and the Road Found at LastWatch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/gAJ0kDVRpL8New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.🎙️ Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com📖 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com🕊️ Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.comThis show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.
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  The Moon Princess Kaguya · The Original Tale · 3 Hour Full Moon Sleep Story to Fall Asleep 29.08.2026 3t

  A slow, calm 3 hour sleep story for the night of the full moon, to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight the storyteller reaches the last page of the old book, and she has saved it for this exact night: The Moon Princess, from The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, the tenth century Japanese story sometimes called the oldest fairy tale of all. An old bamboo cutter finds a stalk glowing in his grove, and inside it a princess small enough to rest in his two hands. She grows into a lady so gentle that five grand suitors are set five impossible tasks and refused without one unkind word, an emperor becomes her friend by letter, and when the moon at last sends its shining procession down for her, she leaves behind a letter and a gift, carried to the summit of the highest mountain in Japan.Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. There is a farewell in it, but it is the gentlest farewell in any storybook, told with far more moonlight than sorrow. There is nothing here to fear. You do not have to watch. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning.Episode 12 of 12 · The Storybook SeasonWhere this sits: Part 12 of 12 in The Storybook Season, one storyteller, one lantern, and one complete famous tale each night, each told from its original source. Tonight, the princess the moon calls home, told on the night of the full moon, the last tale of the season. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin.Chapters:0:00 Welcome3:25 The Grove of Green Light12:51 The Smallest Princess in the World22:57 The Five Suitors33:35 The Stone Bowl of the Buddha40:38 The Jeweled Branch of Horai51:45 The Robe of the Fire Rat59:10 The Jewel in the Dragon's Neck1:06:56 The Swallow's Shell1:16:22 The Emperor's Letters1:24:31 The Fifteenth Night of the Eighth Month1:38:04 The Smoke of the Mountain1:45:16 Goodnight. And the Lamp at the Edge of MorningWatch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanacNew episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday.🕯 Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com📜 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com🕊 Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.comThis show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.
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  The Snow Queen · The Original Fairy Tale · 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep 27.08.2026 3t

  A slow, calm 3 hour fairy tale sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight the storyteller opens the old book to The Snow Queen, Andersen's long winter tale of 1844. A troll's mirror shatters into splinters finer than dust, one splinter finds a boy named Kay, and his friend Gerda simply sets out to bring him home. Her road passes roses growing along a roof gutter, a robber girl who lends her own white reindeer, and a wise woman near the top of the world who says the truest thing in the whole story: the girl's own gentle heart is already power enough. The ice palace gives way to patience, not to force, and two friends walk home into summer.Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. There is deep ice in it, but the whole story is about the thaw, and nearly every stranger Gerda meets ends up helping her on her way. There is nothing here to fear. You do not have to watch. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning.Episode 11 of 12 · The Storybook SeasonWhere this sits: Part 11 of 12 in The Storybook Season, one storyteller, one lantern, and one complete famous tale each night, each told from its original source. Tonight, the long walk north, and the thaw at the end of it. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin.Chapters:0:00 Welcome3:32 The Mirror of the Trolls8:35 The Roses on the Roof Gutter15:17 The White Sledge24:56 The River and the Cherry Garden38:44 The Crow Who Knew a Princess48:28 The Prince and the Princess57:38 The Little Robber Girl1:10:41 The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman1:21:08 The Word Made of Ice1:29:59 The Road Home Runs Through Spring1:36:32 The Roses in Bloom1:43:19 Goodnight. And the Lamp at the Edge of MorningWatch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanacNew episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday.🕯 Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com📜 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com🕊 Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.comThis show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.
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  The Wizard of Oz · The Original Story · 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep 23.08.2026 3t

  A slow, calm 3 hour fairy tale sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight the storyteller opens the old book to The Wizard of Oz, as L. Frank Baum wrote it in 1900. The shoes are silver in the original, the Good Witch of the North leaves a kiss on Dorothy's forehead that keeps her safe on the whole road, the Emerald City hands out green spectacles at its gates, a field of poppies lies deep with sleep, and there is a small quiet country made entirely of china. The road is yellow brick and the pace is a walking pace, all the way there and all the way home.Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. There are witches in it, but the ones we walk beside are kind, and the road stays even underfoot the whole way. There is nothing here to fear. You do not have to watch. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning.Episode 10 of 12 · The Storybook SeasonWhere this sits: Part 10 of 12 in The Storybook Season, one storyteller, one lantern, and one complete famous tale each night, each told from its original source. Tonight, the yellow brick road at a bedtime pace. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin.Chapters:0:00 Welcome2:41 The House on the Gray Prairie12:05 The Silver Shoes and the Kiss25:01 The Road of Yellow Brick38:40 The Man of Tin49:10 The Cowardly Lion1:01:40 The Field of Scarlet Poppies1:12:41 The Emerald City and the Green Spectacles1:26:03 The Four Faces of Oz1:38:06 The Golden Cap1:54:43 The Man Behind the Screen2:15:07 The China Country and Glinda the Good2:32:07 Goodnight. And the Lamp at the Edge of MorningWatch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanacNew episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday.🕯 Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com📜 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com🕊 Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.comThis show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.
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  Mulan · The Original Ballad · 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep 20.08.2026 3t

  A slow, calm 3 hour storybook sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight the storyteller opens the old book to the Ballad of Mulan, the short poem from the Northern Wei dynasty that began the whole legend, told long and slow. A daughter at her loom hears the army lists calling her father's name, so she buys a horse at one market, a saddle at another, a bridle at a third, a long whip at the fourth, and rides north in his place. Twelve years she serves, and her comrades never know. When the emperor offers her any reward she can name, she asks only for a swift horse home, and the ballad closes with its famous gentle riddle, two hares running side by side through the grass.Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. There is a war at the far edges of it, but it stays at the edges; the story keeps its eyes on the loom, the river, the mountain road, and the long ride home. There is nothing here to fear. You do not have to watch. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning.Episode 9 of 12 · The Storybook SeasonWhere this sits: Part 9 of 12 in The Storybook Season, one storyteller, one lantern, and one complete famous tale each night, each told from its original source. Tonight, the daughter who rode twelve years in her father's place. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin.Chapters:0:00 Welcome3:15 The Loom That Faced the Door8:57 Twelve Scrolls of Paper15:54 The Four Markets26:22 The Yellow River Nights34:53 The Horses of the Black Mountain41:46 Ten Thousand Miles Like Flying50:37 Twelve Winters, Twelve Springs58:29 The Hall of Light1:04:56 The Road Home1:12:39 The Dress by the Window1:20:18 The Two Hares1:27:56 Goodnight. And the Lamp at the Edge of MorningWatch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanacNew episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday.🕯 Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com📜 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com🕊 Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.comThis show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.
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  The Odyssey · The Gathering of the War · The Untold Story Before Troy · 3 Hour Sleep Story 18.08.2026 3t

  A slow, calm 3 hour Greek mythology sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Everyone knows the ten years at Troy. Tonight is the story just before it, the half forgotten season when the war was still only a rumor crossing the water. A king plows his own field with salt to escape an oath he invented himself, and loses the one contest of wits he ever plainly lost. A goddess hides her son, the greatest warrior the world will ever know, in the last place anyone would think to look, among a king's daughters, in a borrowed dress. A peddler comes ashore with silks and a single spear, and one horn note undoes all the hiding in a heartbeat. And at the end, in one small bay, a thousand ships gather and wait for nothing in the world but a wind.This is Part 2 of 2. If you have not yet heard how Odysseus himself came to be, that story, The Making of Odysseus, is on this channel too.Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. A war is coming for these men, but it stays far off all night, on the far side of the sea. Not one sword is raised in this telling. There are only farewells, disguises, clever men being clever, and ships gathering on quiet water. You do not have to watch. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning.A Sleeping Almanac special · Part 2 of 2 · The full Odyssey season continues on this channelChapters (real times, computed from the build audio, see status note above)0:00 Welcome7:07 Chapter One: The Sail with No Business There16:42 Chapter Two: The Warning of Twenty Years23:56 Chapter Three: The King Who Sowed Salt34:33 Chapter Four: The Leaving of Ithaca45:28 Chapter Five: The Boy with Two Fates53:40 Chapter Six: The Island of Hidden Things1:01:47 Chapter Seven: The Peddler at the Door1:11:16 Chapter Eight: The Horn and the Spear1:21:03 Chapter Nine: The Bay of a Thousand Fires1:29:52 Chapter Ten: The Counting of the Ships1:44:55 Chapter Eleven: The Last Night at Aulis1:50:18 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight. And the Sails Going Out at Dawn🕯 Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com📜 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com🕊 Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannelThis is a bedtime story for adults, made for sleep, insomnia, relaxation, and quiet nights when the mind will not switch off. Drawn from Homer's Iliad, including the Catalogue of Ships, Apollodorus' Bibliotheca, Hyginus' Fabulae, and the summary of the lost Cypria. These are retellings. Where the old stories turn toward fear or cruelty, we turn gently toward comfort, choosing the telling that serves a calm night.New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday at 6pm ET.🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.comThis channel uses AI tools (script research, narration, visuals) under the direction of a human editor. Every episode is researched, reviewed, and revised before publication.Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/v1sADE-DYKgNew episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday at 6pm ET.#SleepStory #TheOdyssey #GreekMythology #Odysseus
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  Robin Hood · The Original Legend · 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep 18.08.2026 3t

  A slow, calm 3 hour storybook sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight the storyteller opens the old book to Robin Hood, from the oldest ballads and the Gest of Robyn Hode, the greenwood as it always was. A tall stranger met on a narrow bridge with a quarterstaff, a friar who carries an outlaw across a river and back again, a golden arrow won in plain sight, a poor knight lent four hundred pounds and his dignity with it, and a king who comes to the greenwood to see for himself. Sherwood at dusk is one of the calmest places any story has ever kept.Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. There are arrows in it, but they are aimed only at willow wands and targets, and nobody in the greenwood goes to sleep hungry or afraid. There is nothing here to fear. You do not have to watch. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning.Episode 8 of 12 · The Storybook SeasonWhere this sits: Part 8 of 12 in The Storybook Season, one storyteller, one lantern, and one complete famous tale each night, each told from its original source. Tonight, the greenwood and its gentleman outlaw. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin.Chapters:0:00 Welcome2:24 The Greenwood9:59 The Stranger on the Bridge18:54 The Miller's Son and the Man in Scarlet26:37 The Knight at Dinner34:31 Four Hundred Pounds44:04 The Friar at the River51:15 The Golden Arrow56:20 The Splitting of the Wand1:03:15 The King Comes to the Greenwood1:09:35 Lincoln Green1:16:54 The Turning of the Year1:25:49 Goodnight. And the Lamp at the Edge of MorningWatch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanacNew episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday.🕯 Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com📜 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com🕊 Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.comThis show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.
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  Sleeping Beauty · The Original Fairy Tale · 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep 16.08.2026 3t

  A slow, calm 3 hour fairy tale sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight the storyteller opens the old book to Sleeping Beauty the old way, from Perrault and from the Grimms' Briar Rose. A wish granted by the water, gifts spoken over a golden cradle, one spindle left in a high tower room, and then the enchantment the tale is named for: the whole castle falls asleep together, the cooks and the horses and the doves and the fire on the hearth, and a hedge of briars rises to guard the quiet. A hundred years pass in that stillness, and when the time is finally right, the hedge blooms and opens all by itself.Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. The spindle does its small work early, and after that the entire story is one long, protected sleep, which is rather the point. There is nothing here to fear. You do not have to watch. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning.Episode 7 of 12 · The Storybook SeasonWhere this sits: Part 7 of 12 in The Storybook Season, one storyteller, one lantern, and one complete famous tale each night, each told from its original source. Tonight, the castle that slept for a hundred years. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin.Chapters:0:00 Welcome2:35 The Wish by the Water7:57 The Feast of the Golden Plates15:07 The Gifts of the Wise Women22:00 The Thirteenth Wish, and the Twelfth27:03 The Kingdom Without Spindles33:34 The Tower Room40:57 The Castle Falls Asleep50:47 The Hedge of Briars59:15 A Hundred Years of Quiet1:06:52 The Hedge in Bloom1:16:19 The Waking House1:28:20 Goodnight. And the Lamp at the Edge of MorningWatch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanacNew episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday.🕯 Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com📜 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com🕊 Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.comThis show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.
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  Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac | Season Four, The Odyssey 15.08.2026

  The world's oldest stories, told slowly enough to fall asleep to. Three hour sleep stories for anyone who lies down at night and cannot switch the day off. Four seasons so far: Norse gods, Egyptian nights, old fairy tales, and now the Odyssey across twelve nights. New episodes every Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday night.
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  Alice in Wonderland · The Original Story · 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep 13.08.2026 3t

  A slow, calm 3 hour fairy tale sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight the storyteller opens the old book to Alice in Wonderland, as Lewis Carroll first told it in 1865. A golden afternoon on a riverbank, a white rabbit with a waistcoat pocket and a watch inside it, a fall so long and slow it feels like floating, and a tea table where the dormouse sleeps peacefully through everything. The whole adventure is a dream from its first page to its last, which makes it the safest adventure there is, and at the end the dreamer simply wakes on the same warm bank, with her head in her sister's lap.Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. It is all a dream on a riverbank, and the story knows it, so nothing in it can follow you anywhere except into sleep. There is nothing here to fear. You do not have to watch. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning.Episode 6 of 12 · The Storybook SeasonWhere this sits: Part 6 of 12 in The Storybook Season, one storyteller, one lantern, and one complete famous tale each night, each told from its original source. Tonight, a dream on a riverbank. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin.Chapters:0:00 Welcome2:50 A Golden Afternoon, and a White Rabbit with a Watch9:46 The Little Golden Key18:52 The Pool of Tears and the Caucus Race35:27 The Rabbit Sends in Little Bill48:35 Advice from a Caterpillar1:01:08 Pepper, a Pig, and a Grin Without a Cat1:16:52 The Maddest Tea Party in All the World1:33:24 Painting the Roses Red1:49:44 The Mock Turtle's Story2:06:12 The Lobster Quadrille, and Who Stole the Tarts2:25:41 Alice's Evidence, and a Pack of Cards2:37:59 Goodnight. And the Lamp at the Edge of MorningWatch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanacNew episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday.🕯 Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com📜 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com🕊 Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.comThis show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.
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  Peter Pan · The Original Story · 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep 11.08.2026 3t

  A slow, calm 3 hour fairy tale sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight the storyteller opens the old book to Peter Pan, as J. M. Barrie wrote him in 1911. A nursery at number fourteen, a large gentle dog for a nurse, a boy who comes back for his lost shadow, and directions no map has ever improved: second star to the right, and straight on till morning. There are mermaids in a lagoon, a patient Never bird on her floating nest, a little house built around a sleeping girl, and a window kept open at the end, because some windows always are.Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. There is a pirate in it, but tonight he is more pocket watch than menace, and the nursery window stays open the whole time. There is nothing here to fear. You do not have to watch. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning.Episode 5 of 12 · The Storybook SeasonWhere this sits: Part 5 of 12 in The Storybook Season, one storyteller, one lantern, and one complete famous tale each night, each told from its original source. Tonight, the boy who would not grow up. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin.Chapters:0:00 Welcome2:39 The Nursery at Number Fourteen16:41 The Boy Who Came for His Shadow37:11 Second Star to the Right46:57 The Island That Woke59:45 The Little House1:09:53 The Home Under the Ground1:20:30 The Mermaids' Lagoon1:33:15 The Never Bird1:40:20 Wendy's Story1:48:02 The Gentleman and the Clock1:57:20 The Window Left Open2:04:53 Goodnight. And the Lamp at the Edge of MorningWatch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanacNew episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday.🕯 Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com📜 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com🕊 Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.comThis show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.
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  Cinderella · The Original Fairy Tale · 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep 09.08.2026 3t

  A slow, calm 3 hour fairy tale sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight the storyteller opens the old book to Cinderella, exactly as Charles Perrault first set it down in 1697. A pumpkin hollowed out by a godmother's hand, six mice turned to six grey horses, a whiskered rat for a coachman, six lizards for footmen, and not one ball but two. The slipper is glass, it fits in front of everyone, and the story ends not in punishment but in forgiveness, with places found at court for both sisters.Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. There are unkind sisters in it, but the unkindness stays quiet, and the ending forgives them, which is how Perrault himself chose to close it. There is nothing here to fear. You do not have to watch. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning.Episode 4 of 12 · The Storybook SeasonWhere this sits: Part 4 of 12 in The Storybook Season, one storyteller, one lantern, and one complete famous tale each night, each told from its original source. Tonight, the slipper of glass and the kindness at the end. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin.Chapters:0:00 Welcome3:02 The House with the Cold Hearths8:43 Cinders, and the Two Names15:29 An Invitation Sealed in Red Wax23:16 Dressing the Sisters29:59 The Godmother in the Garden36:36 Six Mice, Three Rats, and Six Lizards46:22 The First Ball55:16 The Day Between1:04:30 The Stroke of Twelve1:11:42 The Slipper Tried Through the City1:16:58 Forgiveness, and Two Places at Court1:22:57 Goodnight. And the Lamp at the Edge of MorningWatch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanacNew episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday.🕯 Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com📜 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com🕊 Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.comThis show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.