Cerberus: The Complete Story of Hades’ Three-Headed Hound | Greek Mythology for Sleep

Cerberus: The Complete Story of Hades’ Three-Headed Hound | Greek Mythology for SleepA slow, quiet retelling of the story of Cerberus, made for falling asleep to.He gets one job and he does it perfectly for eternity, which makes him one of the few figures in Greek myth who never fails at anything. And his job is not what most people assume. He isn't there to keep the living out — plenty of people walked past him going down. He's there to make sure nobody walks back up.The family he comes from is the strangest in all of it: a mother who was half snake, and siblings who are most of the famous monsters in the Greek world. He himself has three heads in the version that stuck, though the earliest accounts give him fifty, and a serpent for a tail. What follows is the handful of people who got past him, and how. A musician who put him to sleep by playing to him. A woman who brought cake. And a hero at the end of a list of impossible tasks who was told to bring him up to the surface and did it with his bare hands, on the condition that he brought him back afterwards — the only creature ever to be taken out of that place and returned.He is also, in a lot of the older art, just a very large dog doing what he was asked to do. Which is worth an hour or two.The recording itself is the usual thing. A low, even voice, no music, no sound effects, nothing that rises or drops or suddenly arrives. Nothing in it is built to frighten you. Slow enough that following along stops feeling necessary somewhere in the first twenty minutes. If you drift off at the gate and surface much deeper in, that's the intended use. 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 episodes every day.