Persephone: Complete Story of the Goddess Who Lived Between Two Worlds | Greek Mythology for Sleep

Persephone: Complete Story of the Goddess Who Lived Between Two Worlds | Greek Mythology for SleepA slow, quiet retelling of the life of Persephone, told from the beginning and made for falling asleep to.The whole story of the goddess who belonged to two worlds, at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.She started as a girl in a field of flowers and ended up a queen in a place nobody wants to go. What happens in between is the oldest kind of story there is: a daughter taken, a mother who searched the whole earth for her, a bargain made underground that couldn't be undone, and a compromise that split her life in half forever. It's also, quietly, the story of why the world turns cold every year and then comes back. She's the only one of them who lives in both places, and she never seems entirely out of place in either.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. 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 in the field and wake up much later, far underground, 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.