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

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

The Sleeping Almanac · Sleep Stories from Myth and Fairy Tale

Three hour sleep stories for adults, from the fairy tales and myths you already know. Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, Sleeping Beauty, Robin Hood, Homer's Odyssey, and the old gods of the North and of Egypt, each retold in slow, calm narration made to be listened to as 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. 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. Each episode is researched, written, and narrated to drift over you rather than demand your attention. The pacing is slow. The music never spikes. The goal is the opposite of keeping you awake. Each season moves through a different story tradition: Norse mythology, Egyptian myth, the great fairy tales, the tales of 1001 Nights, Homer's Odyssey, the myths of ancient Mesopotamia, and the lost books of the Bible. New episodes every Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday night, every one of them three hours long. The almanac is now a book. Norse Myths Retold for Sleep gathers twelve of the oldest stories, retold to be read in a low lamp until the page slips from your hand. On Kindle now, free with Kindle Unlimited: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2WLVPD First looks at new seasons, by email: https://gildenmyth.com/#gm-subscribe This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

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  • 99 - The Odyssey Sleep Stories · 11 Hour Compilation Part 1 · The Wrong Shore to the Sirens

    Bonus: six Greek Mythology sleep stories in one 11 hour episode.

    Mon, 09 Nov 2026
  • 98 - Gospel of Mary · The Full Story of the Books the Ground Gave Back · 3 Hour Sleep Story

    Four books that nobody set out to find. A storeroom behind a synagogue wall in Cairo that was never emptied, because a page with the name of God on it may not be thrown away, and nine hundred years of paper went up a ladder through a hole in the plaster and stayed there. 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 book bought in a Cairo shop in January of 1896 by a German scholar who never said where it came from, that went into a drawer in Berlin and waited fifty nine years to be read, through a burst water pipe and two wars, and that turned out to hold the Gospel of Mary, the only gospel we have with a woman's name on it. Tonight all of them, told with the finding stories at their true length and the books read whole where they survive. Mary's vision of the soul climbing past four powers, the four questions and the four answers, and the ten pages in the middle that are simply gone. 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.

    Sun, 08 Nov 2026
  • 97 - Greek Myth Music · 3 Hour Sleep Music · Aegean Night Ambience for Deep Sleep

    Bonus: three hours of calm sleep music, no talking.

    Sat, 07 Nov 2026
  • 96 - Gospel of Thomas · The Full Story of the Gospel With No Story · 3 Hour Sleep Story

    A gospel with no birth, no miracles, no cross and no tomb. A hundred and fourteen sayings, one after another, each beginning Jesus said, and nothing between them. 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 nobody knew what they were. 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.

    Fri, 06 Nov 2026
  • 95 - Secret Book of John · The Full Story of Eden From the Other Side · 3 Hour Sleep Story

    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 jar at Nag Hammadi that read all of that and turned it upside down. 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 every layer beneath him, in order, until you can see how far down the maker sits. 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 who would not board the ark and burned it instead. 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.

    Thu, 05 Nov 2026
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