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  • Mesopotamian Myth Music · 3 Hour Sleep Music · Ziggurat Night Ambience

    Mesopotamian Myth Music · 3 Hour Sleep Music · Ziggurat Night Ambience
    Nov 5 2026

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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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    2 ore e 59 min
  • Book of Enoch · The Son of Man and the Complete Parables Only Ethiopia Kept · 3 Hour Sleep Story

    Book of Enoch · The Son of Man and the Complete Parables Only Ethiopia Kept · 3 Hour Sleep Story
    Nov 3 2026

    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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    3 ore
  • All Souls Day and Dziady · Church, Candles, Forefathers' Eve, the Full Story · 11 Hour Sleep Story

    All Souls Day and Dziady · Church, Candles, Forefathers' Eve, the Full Story · 11 Hour Sleep Story
    Nov 3 2026

    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.

    Watch the live on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcpB5MgAJ3E
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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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    11 ore
  • Book of Jubilees · The Full Story Behind the Angel and the Heavenly Tablets · 3 Hour Sleep Story

    Book of Jubilees · The Full Story Behind the Angel and the Heavenly Tablets · 3 Hour Sleep Story
    Nov 1 2026

    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

    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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    3 ore
  • Dziady · The Full Story of the Slavic Halloween When the Dead Come to Supper · 11 Hour Sleep Story

    Dziady · The Full Story of the Slavic Halloween When the Dead Come to Supper · 11 Hour Sleep Story
    Nov 1 2026

    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.

    Watch the live on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXi9rMI8HDA
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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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    11 ore
  • Book of Enoch · The Full Story of the Calendar That Split a People · 3 Hour Sleep Story

    Book of Enoch · The Full Story of the Calendar That Split a People · 3 Hour Sleep Story
    Oct 30 2026

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

    Noah's Birth · The Full Story of the Child Feared to Be Nephilim · 3 Hour Sleep Story
    Oct 29 2026

    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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    3 ore
  • Halloween Sleep Music in Full · 3 Hours of Vintage Parlor Waltzes by Lamplight

    Halloween Sleep Music in Full · 3 Hours of Vintage Parlor Waltzes by Lamplight
    Oct 29 2026

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