Egyptian Underworld: The Complete Story of Its Gates and Guardians | Egyptian Mythology for Sleep

A slow, quiet journey through the Egyptian underworld, gate by gate, made for falling asleep to.Hours of old Egyptian belief and story, read at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.The Egyptians mapped the land of the dead the way other people map a country. It had a geography, and a night that had to be crossed from one side to the other. There were gates along the way, each with its own keeper, its own name, and its own thing that had to be said before you were let through. There were guardians waiting in the dark, halls where the dead had to answer for the life they'd lived, and a scale where the answer was weighed. And there was a sun that made the same crossing every single night, and came back up in the morning, which was the whole point of telling any of it.But the point of this recording isn't really the destination. It's the hour or two spent moving slowly through the dark. The voice stays low and even the whole way through. No music, no sound effects, nothing that rises or drops or suddenly arrives. Every sentence is built to sit 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 before the first gate and wake up much deeper in, 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 and old folklore, 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.