The Sleeping Almanac

Episodi

• 
  Etana and the Eagle: The Full Surviving Story of a Forgotten Sumerian Myth | 3 Hour Sleep Story 04.10.2026 3h

  Etana is the oldest story of human flight, and hardly anybody has heard of it. A king of Kish has everything except the one ordinary thing he wants, and to get it he must go up. Tonight is the eagle and the serpent and the broken oath in the tree, th
• 
  Norse Mythology Sleep Stories · 11 Hour Compilation Part 1 · The Nine Worlds to Ragnarok 03.10.2026 11h 42min

  Bonus: six Norse Mythology sleep stories in one 11 hour episode.
• 
  The Epic of Gilgamesh Part 3: The Full Story of the Flood and the Plant | 3 Hour Sleep Story 02.10.2026 3h

  The Epic of Gilgamesh, night three, and it is the kind one. A king walks out of his own city in a lion skin looking for the one man who never died. Tonight is the mountain with the twin peaks, the woman with the beer house at the edge of the world, t
• 
  The Epic of Gilgamesh Part 2: The Full Story of the Bull of Heaven | 3 Hour Sleep Story 01.10.2026 3h

  The Epic of Gilgamesh, night two, and this is the hard one. A goddess makes an offer and is refused. The Bull of Heaven comes down on Uruk and opens a fissure in the plain. The gods hold a council and somebody has to answer for it. And then a man sit
• 
  Chinese Myth Music · 3 Hour Sleep Music · Silver Moon Ambience for Deep Sleep 30.09.2026 2h 59min

  Bonus: three hours of calm sleep music, no talking.
• 
  The Epic of Gilgamesh Part 1: The Full Story of the Cedar Forest | 3 Hour Sleep Story 29.09.2026 3h

  The Epic of Gilgamesh is the story everybody has heard of and almost nobody has actually read, and it is three thousand lines long, so we are taking three nights over it. Tonight is the first: the wall of Uruk, a king who was too much for his own cit
• 
  Fairy Tale Sleep Stories · 11 Hour Compilation Part 2 · Sleeping Beauty to the Moon Princess Kaguya 28.09.2026 11h 16min

  Bonus: six Fairy Tale sleep stories in one 11 hour episode.
• 
  Enheduanna: The Full Story of the First Author Whose Name We Know | 3 Hour Sleep Story 27.09.2026 3h

  Enheduanna is the first author in human history whose name is attached to what she wrote. She was a real woman with a real job, high priestess of the moon god at Ur, daughter of Sargon of Akkad, and about four thousand three hundred years ago she sig
• 
  Fairy Tale Sleep Stories · 11 Hour Compilation Part 1 · Scheherazade to Alice in Wonderland 26.09.2026 11h 32min

  Bonus: six Fairy Tale sleep stories in one 11 hour episode.
• 
  Enuma Elish: The Babylonian Creation Story | 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep 25.09.2026 3h

  Enuma Elish is the Babylonian creation story, and it is not called that at all. Its name is simply the first two words on the first tablet, When above. Seven tablets, about a thousand lines, and a world made first out of water, then out of noise, the
• 
  Odysseus and His Father Laertes · The Odyssey · Greek Mythology Sleep Story 24.09.2026 3h

  The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it.Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight is the last night of the Odyssey, and it is the quietest one. A king who has just won back his own hall walks out of it at first light and goes up into the hills, because there is one person left who does not know he is alive. His father lives on a high farm now, in a labourer's patched tunic and gardener's gloves, working an orchard alone and refusing the comfort of the house, because grief made him small and the work is the only thing that answers. You will hear a son stand at the edge of a vineyard row and watch an old man dig, and try a stranger's story on him first, and watch it land like a stone. And then you will hear him give up the disguise and prove himself with the gentlest evidence in all of Homer. Not a scar. Not a bow. A list of trees. Thirteen pear, ten apple, forty fig, and the rows of vines a father once walked with a small boy at his heel and counted out loud as a gift, and the boy remembered every one of them for forty years. You will hear a house wake up around that. A bath, clean clothes, an old woman's cooking, three generations of one family sitting at a table at the same time for the first time in a lifetime. And out on the road the fathers of the dead come looking for the king with spears, and the anger of a whole island stands up at once, and it is ended not with a battle but with a voice out of the sky and a bolt in the dust and oaths of peace sworn on the spot. Then the days after. A story promised and finally told, an oar carried inland until someone calls it a winnowing fan, and a sail at the edge of morning. A calm, hopeful telling for sleep, calm enough to drift to and rich enough to stay awake for if you choose.Close your eyes. Let the orchard go quiet. There is nothing to do now but listen and rest.CHAPTERS0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire4:00 Chapter One: The Morning After Twenty Years12:47 Chapter Two: The Walk Up Through the Autumn Island19:34 Chapter Three: The Gardener King27:47 Chapter Four: The Test He Could Not Finish34:13 Chapter Five: The Proof of the Orchard44:23 Chapter Six: The Bath and the Table52:25 Chapter Seven: The Anger in the Town1:01:36 Chapter Eight: The Voice That Ended It1:11:38 Chapter Nine: The Oaths of Peace1:15:58 Chapter Ten: The Days After1:23:17 Chapter Eleven: The Story That Was Promised1:29:22 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight. And the Sail at the Edge of MorningWatch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/HViw5KkaW-YNew 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.
• 
  Penelope, the Bow and the Olive Tree Bed · The Odyssey · Greek Mythology Sleep Story 22.09.2026 3h

  The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it.Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight a great bow comes down off a wall where it has hung at rest through a whole long war, and the strongest young men in a kingdom warm it and grease it at the fire and cannot bend it, because strength was never the thing it was waiting for. A queen carries her husband's bow down the stairs in her own two arms and sets the terms of a contest she believes no one can win. A boy plants twelve iron axe heads in a straight trench down the hall floor, a game he has never once seen played, and his hands know it anyway. And a beggar in rags asks to try that bow, and turns it in his hands the way a singer turns a new lyre, and strings it without rising from his stool, and plucks it once, and one clear note answers like a swallow. You will see a single arrow fly clean through the sockets of all twelve axes without touching iron. You will see a house give a wandering king back his name, and then his hall, and then his wife, who makes him prove himself with a bed whose secret is a living olive tree for a leg, rooted in the island itself, that no man alive could move. The night is stern for a little while in its middle, told plainly and in a low voice and staged not at all, and it is brief, and it passes. On the far side of it there is a house swept clean, and two people knowing each other again after twenty years, and a night the grey eyed goddess made longer so they would have time enough. A calm, hopeful telling for sleep, calm enough to drift to and rich enough to stay awake for if you choose.Close your eyes. Let the hall go quiet. There is nothing to do now but listen and rest.CHAPTERS0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire4:40 Chapter One: The Morning of the Axes12:17 Chapter Two: The Bow Comes Down21:32 Chapter Three: The Contest of the Young Men30:14 Chapter Four: The Two Herdsmen in the Yard37:46 Chapter Five: The Beggar Asks for the Bow44:27 Chapter Six: The Singer Strings the Bow50:43 Chapter Seven: The Arrow Through the Twelve56:52 Chapter Eight: The Reckoning1:02:31 Chapter Nine: The House Made Clean1:08:21 Chapter Ten: Come and See1:14:33 Chapter Eleven: The Bed That Could Not Be Moved1:25:00 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight. And the Night the Goddess Made LongerWatch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/1HRpIBQzS6ENew 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.
• 
  Odysseus the Beggar and Argos the Dog · The Odyssey · Greek Mythology Sleep Story 20.09.2026 3h

  The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it.Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight a king walks into his own house as a beggar, and only a dog knows him. He comes down the goat track from the high farm in rags, past the spring where the road bends, and lets a rude man kick him without answering. At his own gate an old hound lifts his head, thumps his tail once in the dust, and lets go of a life he had only been holding on to for this. Inside, the great hall is loud with men eating another man's cattle, and the ragged stranger goes along the tables with his hands out and takes what they give him, insults and bread alike, while his own son watches and says nothing. Upstairs the queen sits at a loom she has been quietly unweaving by lamplight for three years. And in a quiet corner an old nurse kneels to wash a beggar's feet, finds a scar above his knee that she has known since he was a boy, and is hushed before she can cry out. A calm, hopeful telling of the return to the hall for sleep, calm enough to drift to and rich enough to stay awake for if you choose.Close your eyes. Let the lamps in the hall burn down. There is nothing to do now but listen and rest.CHAPTERS0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire4:34 Chapter One: The Road Down to the Town10:30 Chapter Two: An Unkindness on the Road16:02 Chapter Three: The Old Dog on the Warm Heap26:20 Chapter Four: The Beggar at His Own Door31:54 Chapter Five: The Thrown Stool40:18 Chapter Six: The Queen Among the Wasters48:05 Chapter Seven: The Web Told by the Weaver56:01 Chapter Eight: The Cloak and the Brooch1:04:52 Chapter Nine: The Basin and the Scar1:14:24 Chapter Ten: The Dream of the Geese1:21:30 Chapter Eleven: The House Going Quiet1:25:59 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight. And the House Asleep Around Its SecretWatch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/wlBVOc8e4WINew 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.
• 
  Odysseus Home on Ithaca · The Odyssey · Greek Mythology Sleep Story 18.09.2026 3h

  The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it.Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight the long way home ends on a beach at last, and nobody knows it yet. A man wakes in a mist so thick he does not recognise his own island, and believes for one aching moment that he has been cheated again. A young shepherd with grey eyes tells him where he is, and then tells him who she is, and laughs at him fondly for lying to her, because they are both of one craft. Then the king of Ithaca is made old and ragged and unrecognisable, and walks up to a pig farm on the high ground to sit at the fire of a servant who has never stopped believing he would come back. There is a supper of roast pork and dark wine. There is a tale told about a cold night at Troy and a borrowed cloak, invented on the spot to beg a blanket. There is rain drumming on a rough roof, and a son sailing home under the same rain, and one quiet room where a father finally says who he is. A calm, hopeful telling of the homecoming and the swineherd's hut for sleep, calm enough to drift to and rich enough to stay awake for if you choose.Close your eyes. Let the fire in the hut burn low. There is nothing to do now but listen and rest.CHAPTERS0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire4:34 Chapter One: The Waking Stranger10:15 Chapter Two: The Shepherd with Grey Eyes17:48 Chapter Three: We Are Both of One Craft23:57 Chapter Four: The Cave and the Plan32:36 Chapter Five: The Farm on the High Ground40:20 Chapter Six: The Supper of the Swineherd49:10 Chapter Seven: The Tale of the Cloak56:02 Chapter Eight: The Story of the Swineherd1:03:17 Chapter Nine: The Son on the Sea1:09:26 Chapter Ten: I Am Your Father1:18:26 Chapter Eleven: The Plan Laid in Low Voices1:26:42 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight. And the Rain on the Swineherd's RoofWatch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/t3zpNlv2NjINew 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.
• 
  Nausicaa and the Phaeacians · The Odyssey · Greek Mythology Sleep Story 17.09.2026 3h

  The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it.Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight the gentlest kingdom in all the old world, and the night a long story folds quietly in two. A girl goes down to a river at dawn to wash her father's linen, finds the sea's last castaway asleep in the leaves, and does not run. There is a garden that bears in every season at once, pear behind pear and fig behind fig, forever. There are ships that need no steersman and know the way by thought alone. And in a bright hall a blind singer sings a certain war so truly that a stranger weeps into his cloak, and is asked at last the one question he has not answered in twenty years. A calm, hopeful telling of Nausicaa and the Phaeacians for sleep, calm enough to drift to and rich enough to stay awake for if you choose.Close your eyes. Let the fire on the beach burn low. There is nothing to do now but listen and rest.CHAPTERS0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire4:30 Chapter One: The Wagon at Dawn12:00 Chapter Two: The Stranger from the Leaves20:18 Chapter Three: The Walk Behind the Mules30:06 Chapter Four: The Garden That Bore in Every Season39:05 Chapter Five: The Queen's Sharp Eye49:03 Chapter Six: The Games and the Throw1:00:28 Chapter Seven: The Blind Singer1:08:47 Chapter Eight: The Song of the Horse1:18:40 Chapter Nine: I Am Odysseus1:27:47 Chapter Ten: The Gifts and the Farewell1:35:09 Chapter Eleven: The Ship That Steered Itself1:41:03 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight. And the Sleeper Carried HomeWatch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/p3kD1LVxzggNew 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.
• 
  Anunnaki · The Tablets That Slept Three Thousand Years · 3 Hour Sleep Story 15.09.2026 3h

  The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it.The tablets that first wrote the Anunnaki slept under a hill for two and a half thousand years, and tonight is the story of how they came back. A slow, calm 3 hour sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. The fire that saved a library by baking its books, the grassy mound that kept them, a soldier copying an unreachable cliff, a quiet clerk who taught himself the oldest writing on earth at lunch, the broken tablet that held a flood, and a man in 1976 who read the same clay and told a very different story. Tonight both readings get their say, each in its own voice, and you can decide for yourself. Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. 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.
• 
  Odysseus Leaves Calypso on a Raft · The Odyssey · Greek Mythology Sleep Story 13.09.2026 3h

  The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it.Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight the long stay on the island of Calypso ends, the gods in the high air decide the wanderer may go home at last, and he builds a raft with his own hands and sails alone by the stars. The sea has one more storm to send, and a kind goddess a veil to save him, before a gentle river carries him to rest on a bed of leaves under two olive trees. A calm, hopeful telling for sleep, calm enough to drift to and rich enough to stay awake for if you choose.Close your eyes. Let the fire on the beach burn low. There is nothing to do now but listen and rest.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.
• 
  Anunnaki · The Real Story the Tablets Tell · 3 Hour Sleep Story 11.09.2026 3h

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

  The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it.Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight the ship must pass the three great dangers of the middle sea. First the meadow of the singing women, the Sirens, whose song no sailor is meant to survive. Then the narrow water between the cave and the whirlpool, Scylla and Charybdis, where the strait itself takes its toll. And last the green island of the sun and its forbidden cattle, and the storm that answers a broken oath. A grave and gentle telling for sleep, every danger named softly and never shown, calm enough to drift to and rich enough to stay awake for if you choose.Close your eyes. Let the fire on the beach burn low. There is nothing to do now but listen and rest.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.
• 
  Odysseus in the Underworld · The Odyssey · Greek Mythology Sleep Story 06.09.2026 3h

  The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it.Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight the travelers sail to the quiet edge of the world, where the living may speak once more with the friends they have lost. A blind prophet gives the way home, a mother is met again, and the great names of the old war come softly out of the mist to talk a while by a small fire. A tender, grave telling for sleep, calm enough to drift to and rich enough to stay awake for if you choose.Close your eyes. Let the fire on the beach burn low. There is nothing to do now but listen and rest.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.