Anubis: The Complete Story of the Soul’s Journey Through the Afterlife | Egyptian Mythology for Sleep

A slow, quiet retelling of the journey a soul was believed to make after death, guided by Anubis, made for falling asleep to.The whole story, told from the beginning and at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.He is one of the oldest gods Egypt had, older than most of the ones people know better, and for thousands of years he had the same job: he looked after the dead. Not as something to fear — as the one who prepared the body, who stood at the door, and who walked with you afterwards. What follows is where he came from and why he has the head of a jackal, the work done in the embalming rooms with a priest wearing his mask, and then the road itself. There's a hall the dead had to enter, a list of things they had to be able to say truthfully, and a set of scales where the heart was weighed against a single feather. Anubis is the one steadying the balance. The Egyptians spent enormous care on all of it, not because they were preoccupied with dying, but because they were reasonably confident about what came next and wanted to arrive properly.But the point of this recording isn't really the story. It's the hour or two spent drifting through it. The voice stays low and even the whole way through. No music, no sound effects, nothing that rises or drops or suddenly arrives. Nothing in it is built to frighten you. Every sentence sits at roughly the same level as the one before it, so nothing ever pulls your attention back up to the surface.That's what makes it work on the nights when your head won't switch off. It's just interesting enough to give your thoughts something to hold, and slow enough that they let go of it on their own. You don't have to follow along. You don't have to remember any of it in the morning. If you drift off somewhere near the beginning of the road and wake up much later, far along it, you've used this exactly the way it's meant to be used. Most people don't make it past the first half hour, and the rest will still be here tomorrow night.Put it on, turn the volume down, and let it go on without you.Mythology & Folklore for Sleep — long, calm retellings of Greek myths, Norse legends, Egyptian tales, Hindu epics, Chinese classics and old folklore from around the world, made for insomnia and the hours when you can't sleep. Bedtime stories for adults, told in a slow, quiet voice. New episode every day.