Hades: The Complete Story of the God Who Ruled the Greek Underworld | Greek Mythology for Sleep

Hades: The Complete Story of the God Who Ruled the Greek Underworld | Greek Mythology for SleepA slow, quiet retelling of the life of Hades, told from the beginning and made for falling asleep to.The whole story of the god who ruled the Greek underworld, at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.He was never the villain the modern versions make him out to be. He was the brother who drew the worst lot, took the kingdom nobody wanted, and then stayed there. What follows is how he came to rule it, the shape of the world he ruled over, the marriage that everyone remembers him for, and the handful of living people who came down looking for something and had to face him to get it. He kept his word more often than most of the gods above him did, and he almost never left his own kingdom, which is part of why so few stories about him survive.But the point of this recording isn't really the story. 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 on the way down 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 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.