Mythology And Folklore For Sleep

Baldr: The Complete Story of the Beautiful God Whose Death Foreshadowed Ragnarök | Norse Mythology for SleepA slow, quiet retelling of the death of Baldr, made for falling asleep to.It begins with a bad dream. He starts dreaming about his own death, and in a world where dreams are information rather than noise, that puts the whole of Asgard to work on a solution.His mother's answer was thorough. She went out and took an oath from everything in existence — every metal, every stone, every illness, every animal, every tree — that none of them would harm him. And it worked. It worked so completely that the gods made a game out of it, standing him in the middle of the hall and throwing weapons at him for entertainment, laughing as everything bounced off. One small plant had been skipped over on the grounds that it seemed too young to bother asking. Somebody found that out. Somebody else was standing at the edge of the game, blind, and was kindly offered a turn.What follows is the quietest and saddest stretch in all of Norse myth: a ride down to the land of the dead to ask for him back, an answer that seemed almost generous, a condition that required every single thing in the world to weep for him, and one old woman sitting in a cave who wouldn't. After that there's a punishment, and everyone understands that the countdown has started. Nothing in Asgard is quite the same afterwards, and everybody there knows why.The recording itself is the usual thing. A low, even voice, no music, no sound effects, nothing that rises or drops or suddenly arrives. Slow enough that following along stops feeling necessary somewhere in the first twenty minutes. If you drift off during the game in the hall and surface long afterwards, 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.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: The Complete Story of the Round Table’s Strangest Quest | Arthurian Legend for SleepA slow, quiet retelling of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, made for falling asleep to.It opens with the best entrance in English literature. A court in the middle of a Christmas feast, and a man rides straight into the hall on horseback — enormous, entirely green, holding an axe in one hand and a branch of holly in the other — and proposes a game. He'll take one blow from anyone brave enough, on the condition that he gets to return it in a year's time. Somebody accepts. And then the green man picks his own head up off the floor, tucks it under his arm, reminds the room where to find him, and rides out.What follows is not what you'd expect from a set-up like that. Most of the poem is not about the axe at all. It's about the year of dread in between, a long winter ride north through country that gets emptier as it goes, and then three days in a warm castle with a host who leaves each morning to hunt and a wife who comes to Gawain's room while he's gone. Three hunts, three visits, an agreement to exchange whatever each of them gains during the day. That's where the real test is, and the axe at the end is only the accounting.It survives in one manuscript, by a poet whose name nobody knows, and it's the only Arthurian story where the hero fails at something small and spends the rest of his life wearing a reminder of it.The recording itself is the usual thing. A low, even voice, no music, no sound effects, nothing that rises or drops or suddenly arrives. Slow enough that following along stops feeling necessary somewhere in the first twenty minutes. If you drift off at the Christmas feast and surface somewhere on the road north, 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, Arthurian legend 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.

Pandora’s Box: The Complete Story of the Jar That Unleashed Evil and Left Hope Behind | Greek Mythology for SleepA slow, quiet retelling of the story of Pandora, made for falling asleep to.Start with the thing almost everyone has wrong: it was never a box. It was a jar — a big storage jar, the kind that stood in every Greek kitchen holding oil or grain — and it became a box in the sixteenth century because a scholar translating the Greek reached for the wrong Latin word, and the mistake was too good to correct.The rest of the story is stranger than the phrase suggests. She was manufactured, not born, and she was a punishment aimed at somebody else entirely — the price a god extracted from humanity after a Titan gave it fire. Every one of the gods contributed something to her, which sounds like a blessing until you look at what they each chose to give. Then she was sent down, with the jar, to a man who had been explicitly warned not to accept any gift from that direction and accepted it anyway.What comes out when she opens it is the whole of human trouble, all at once and permanently. And then there's the part nobody can agree on: something remained at the bottom, caught under the lid, and depending on which reading you follow it is either the one thing that makes the rest bearable or the last and cruellest item in the jar. Two and a half thousand years of argument and no resolution — which is, in its own way, a fitting ending.The recording itself is the usual thing. A low, even voice, no music, no sound effects, nothing that rises or drops or suddenly arrives. Slow enough that following along stops feeling necessary somewhere in the first twenty minutes. If you drift off before the jar is opened and surface long afterwards, 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.

The Valkyries: The Complete Story of Odin’s Mysterious Riders Between Life and Valhalla | Norse Mythology for SleepA slow, quiet retelling of the Valkyries, made for falling asleep to.The name means chooser of the slain, which is the part that unsettles people once they notice it. They didn't arrive after a battle to collect the dead. They arrived before it, and decided.In the oldest material they are not the figures in armour that later art made of them. They are closer to something out of a nightmare — weaving on a loom strung with human parts, deciding the outcome as they work, riding over armies with light coming off their weapons. Later they soften. They become the ones who carry chosen men to a hall with a roof made of shields, and who pour the drink there every evening while everyone waits for a war that hasn't happened yet. And in a few stories they become individual women with names and histories, who fall in love with mortal men, disobey the god they serve, and get punished for it — one of them put to sleep inside a ring of fire until somebody brave enough came for her.That's the interesting thing about them. They sit exactly on the line between a force of nature and a person, and the old texts never quite settle which side they're on.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 unsettle you, whatever the subject sounds like. Slow enough that following along stops feeling necessary somewhere in the first twenty minutes. If you drift off before the first battle and surface somewhere in a hall long afterwards, 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.

Cinderella: The Complete Story and Its Many Versions Around the World | Folklore for SleepA slow, quiet journey through the many versions of Cinderella, made for falling asleep to.There are somewhere between three hundred and a thousand of them, depending on who's counting, and the oldest written one is from ninth-century China. Which means the version most people carry around — the pumpkin, the mice, the glass — is about three hundred years old and roughly the fiftieth thing that happened to this story.What follows is the whole spread of it. A girl in Tang dynasty China with a fish that grants her wishes, and a shoe of gold. An Egyptian girl in a Greek telling, whose sandal is carried off by a falcon and dropped in a king's lap. A German version with no fairy godmother at all, where the help comes from a tree growing on her mother's grave and from birds, and where the stepsisters cut parts of their own feet off to make the shoe fit and are found out by the blood. An Italian one where the girl is considerably less passive and the stepmother doesn't survive the first act. Versions from Vietnam, from Scotland, from the Algonquin, all of them recognisably the same story assembled from different pieces.Put side by side over a couple of hours, it stops being a fairy tale and starts being something odder: evidence that people everywhere, with no contact between them, kept arriving at the same shape.The recording itself is the usual thing. A low, even voice, no music, no sound effects, nothing that rises or drops or suddenly arrives. Slow enough that following along stops feeling necessary somewhere in the first twenty minutes. If you drift off in one country and surface in another several centuries later, 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.

Eos and Tithonus: The Complete Story of the Dawn Goddess and the Immortal Wish That Became a Curse | Greek Mythology for SleepA slow, quiet retelling of the story of Eos and Tithonus, made for falling asleep to.She was the dawn. Not a goddess who represented it — the thing itself, rising out of the sea every morning ahead of her brother, opening the sky with her fingers. And she fell in love with a mortal man, which for a goddess whose entire existence is beginnings was always going to go badly.She asked for him to be made immortal, and it was granted exactly as she asked. What she forgot to ask for was the other thing, and there is no version of the story where anyone points this out in time. So he doesn't die. He simply keeps going: older, and then very old, and then past anything a person is meant to become, while she stays exactly as she was on the first morning. The oldest telling of it says that eventually she laid him in a room and closed the door, and that his voice went on without end. Later versions have him shrink until he's a cicada, still talking, out in the grass.It's a short myth with an unusual amount underneath it. It is about wanting something forever and getting the letter of the wish. It's also, more quietly, the reason so many people find the idea of endless life less appealing once they've thought about it for an hour — this story got there about two thousand seven hundred years ahead of everyone.The recording itself is the usual thing. A low, even voice, no music, no sound effects, nothing that rises or drops or suddenly arrives. Slow enough that following along stops feeling necessary somewhere in the first twenty minutes. If you drift off at one dawn and surface at another, 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.

St. George and the Dragon: The Complete Legend of England’s Patron Saint | English Folklore for SleepA slow, quiet retelling of the legend of St. George, made for falling asleep to.He is the patron saint of England and he almost certainly never set foot in it. The man behind the legend was a soldier somewhere in the eastern Roman empire, executed for refusing to give up his religion, and for about eight hundred years the dragon had nothing to do with him at all.That part arrives late — attached to his name in the medieval period, carried west by people coming back from the crusades, and set in a city being slowly emptied by something living in a lake outside the walls. First the sheep. Then a lottery, and the children. Then the king's own daughter, walked out to the water in her wedding clothes because a rule is a rule. And then a man riding past who happened to see what was going on.What's strange is what happens next in the older versions: he doesn't kill it there. He wounds it, and the girl leads it back into the city on her own belt, docile as a dog, and the whole population watches. The killing only comes after. That detail got quietly dropped from most retellings, and it's the best thing in the story.Then the long afterlife: how a Middle Eastern martyr ended up on the English flag, on churches all over Europe, and shared between more countries than almost any other saint.The recording itself is the usual thing. A low, even voice, no music, no sound effects, nothing that rises or drops or suddenly arrives. Slow enough that following along stops feeling necessary somewhere in the first twenty minutes. If you drift off before the rider arrives and surface centuries later, 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, English folklore and old stories 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.

Pegasus: The Complete Story of the Winged Horse, Bellerophon and the Fire-Breathing Chimera | Greek Mythology for SleepA slow, quiet retelling of the story of Pegasus, made for falling asleep to.He starts in a strange place. The winged horse came out of the neck of a monster at the moment she was killed — a birth that nobody plans for, from a creature everybody remembers for the wrong reasons. He flew off, and for a while he simply existed somewhere in the hills, wild, drinking from springs, the way a good story leaves a thing lying around until it's needed.Then a young man arrives who has been given a task nobody expects him to survive: a creature made of three animals that shouldn't fit together, burning everything in a kingdom. He needs the horse. There's a night spent sleeping in a temple, a golden bridle left beside him when he wakes, and after that the two of them are the best thing in the sky. What follows is a run of victories that goes on slightly too long, until the young man makes the mistake that everybody in these stories eventually makes: he decides that since he can reach the mountain of the gods, he may as well go and live there.The fall is the point of the myth, and it isn't the horse who falls. Pegasus keeps flying, arrives, is kept, and ends up as a constellation. His rider does not. Two very different endings from the same journey, which is why the story lasted.The recording itself is the usual thing. A low, even voice, no music, no sound effects, nothing that rises or drops or suddenly arrives. Slow enough that following along stops feeling necessary somewhere in the first twenty minutes. If you drift off in the hills and surface again somewhere over a kingdom, 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.

A slow, quiet retelling of the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, made for falling asleep to.This is the one about the man who nearly got away with it. He was the best musician who ever lived, good enough that rivers changed course to listen and stones moved themselves out of his way — and when his wife died on their wedding day he simply walked down to the underworld and asked for her back.The remarkable part is that it worked. He played, and everything down there stopped: the wheel, the stone, the water, the man reaching for the fruit. The dead stood still. Even the king and queen of that place gave in, which nobody else in any of these stories ever managed. One condition, and it was a small one, and everyone listening already knows he couldn't keep it.What follows is the rest of a life spent afterwards, which the myth doesn't hurry through. He wandered, and refused everyone, and eventually died badly at the hands of people who couldn't stand being refused. His head is said to have floated down a river still singing. It's a story about grief and about the particular cruelty of nearly, and it has been retold more often than almost any other Greek myth for exactly that reason.The recording itself is the usual thing. A low, even voice, no music, no sound effects, nothing that rises or drops or suddenly arrives. Slow enough that following along stops feeling necessary somewhere in the first twenty minutes. If you drift off before he reaches the river and surface again long after, 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.

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.

The Cailleach: The Complete Legend of the Ancient Winter Goddess | Gaelic Folklore for SleepA slow, quiet retelling of the Cailleach, made for falling asleep to.She is older than almost anything else in these islands. Not a goddess in a temple with a priesthood — a presence in the landscape, still attached to specific hills and lochs and stretches of coast in Scotland and Ireland, and in some places still spoken about by people who live there.The stories say she made the country. She carried stone in her apron and dropped it, and that's a mountain. She struck the ground with a hammer and that's a valley. She let a well overflow one night because she fell asleep, and that's a loch, and a village under it. And every year she comes back, because she is winter — she washes her plaid in the sea and it comes out white, and the land goes hard, and stays that way until the season turns. In some tellings she turns into a young woman when it does. In others she's overthrown by one, and comes back the following year regardless. That circling is the whole shape of her: nobody ever wins, and nobody was ever meant to.There's something restful in a figure whose entire story is a thing that keeps happening rather than a thing that ends.The recording itself is the usual thing. A low, even voice, no music, no sound effects, nothing that rises or drops or suddenly arrives. Slow enough that following along stops feeling necessary somewhere in the first twenty minutes. If you drift off in one season and surface in another, 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, Gaelic folklore and old stories 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.

Beowulf: The Complete Story of the Hero Who Slew Grendel | Anglo-Saxon Legend for SleepA slow, quiet retelling of Beowulf, from the hall to the barrow, made for falling asleep to.It's the oldest long poem in English, and it survives in exactly one manuscript, which was damaged by fire in the seventeen hundreds and very nearly didn't survive that either. Everything anyone knows about it comes down to that one battered book.The story is three fights, spread across a lifetime. A hall in Denmark where the noise of people enjoying themselves has been drawing something out of the marshes at night for twelve years, and a young man who sails over from another country to deal with it — and who insists on doing it without weapons, because the thing doesn't use any. Then the part people forget: what came up out of the water afterwards, looking for its son, and the descent into a lake to finish it. And then fifty years pass in the space of a few lines. He's an old king now, and there's a dragon in a burial mound because somebody took a cup from it, and the ending of the poem is not a triumphant one. It's mostly about the men standing in the trees not coming to help, and what everyone knows is going to happen to the kingdom afterwards.It is a poem about old age and reputation and the fact that nothing holds, told as a monster story. That's why it lasted.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. It's slow enough that following along stops feeling necessary somewhere in the first twenty minutes. If you drift off in the hall and surface again fifty years later, 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, Anglo-Saxon poetry 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.

Hecate: The Complete Story of the Goddess of Witchcraft, Crossroads and Ghosts | Greek Mythology for SleepA slow, quiet retelling of the story of Hecate, made for falling asleep to.She is the odd one out. Not an Olympian, older than most of them, and the only figure from the previous generation that the new gods didn't strip of anything — she kept her share of the earth, the sea and the sky, and nobody seems to have argued about it. That alone makes her worth a couple of hours.The story runs through the places where things meet. She holds torches and turns up at night. She was the only one who heard a girl being taken underground and the only one willing to say so, and she stayed on afterwards as company for the queen who came out of that. She belongs to crossroads, to doorways, to the last night of the month, and to the dogs that bark at nothing. Households left food out for her where three roads met, and nobody quite admitted to doing it. Later she gets attached to witchcraft, to a sorceress on an island and another in a kingdom at the end of the sea, and the version most people know now — three faces, three directions, the moon — is largely something the Romans and everyone after them built on top of a much older and quieter goddess who mostly guarded thresholds.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 unsettle you, whatever the subject sounds like. It's slow enough that following along stops feeling necessary somewhere in the first twenty minutes. If you drift off at one crossroads and surface at another, 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.

Kelpies: The Complete Legend of Scotland’s Shape-Shifting Water Horses | Scottish Folklore for SleepA slow, quiet retelling of the kelpie legend, made for falling asleep to.Every dark loch and slow-moving river in Scotland used to have one. That was the whole point of the story — not a single famous monster in a single famous lake, but something that could be in any water at all, including the stretch you walked past every day.It appears as a horse standing near the water's edge. A good one, usually: grey or black, well-made, apparently lost, and standing exactly where a tired person might think their luck had turned. The trap is in the mounting. Once you're on its back you cannot get off, because the skin holds you there, and it goes straight into the water. In some tellings it can take the shape of a person instead, and the only thing that gives it away is the weed in the hair. There are ways to beat it — a bridle, a name, in one story a farmer who managed to put it to work ploughing his fields — but mostly the stories end the way you'd expect.Underneath it is something very practical. These were told in places where children drank from and played beside water that killed people every year, and where a story was a more reliable fence than any actual fence. Half the folklore of northern Europe works this way once you look at it properly.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 — this is a story about water and horses and old caution, told slowly enough that following along stops feeling necessary somewhere in the first twenty minutes. If you drift off by one loch and surface again by another, 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, Scottish folklore and old stories 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.

King Midas and the Golden Touch: The Complete Story of the Gift That Became a Curse | Greek Mythology for SleepA slow, quiet retelling of the story of Midas, made for falling asleep to.Everybody knows the one sentence: a king wished that everything he touched would turn to gold, and got it. What almost nobody remembers is that the wish was a reward. He'd done somebody a kindness — an old man found wandering drunk in his rose garden, looked after for days and returned safely home — and this was the thanks. Nobody tricked him. He asked for it himself, and it was granted exactly as he asked.The next part takes longer than the versions you were told as a child. There is a stretch where it's wonderful. Then there's a meal, and a cup, and the slow arithmetic of a man working out what he's actually done to himself. And then, in most tellings, a daughter, though she's a much later addition to the story. What he does next — the walking, the river, the washing of his hands — is the only part of the myth where he behaves well.And then it keeps going, which surprises people. There's a second half to Midas: a music contest he was unwise enough to have an opinion about, a punishment that left him with something he had to keep hidden under a hat for the rest of his life, and a barber who couldn't stand knowing a secret and whispered it into a hole in the ground. The reeds that grew there repeated it to everyone who passed. He is the only figure in Greek myth punished twice for the same flaw, and the second time is funnier.The recording itself is the usual thing. A low, even voice, no music, no sound effects, nothing that rises or drops or suddenly arrives. Long enough that the end of it isn't really the destination, slow enough that following along stops feeling necessary somewhere in the first twenty minutes. If you drift off in the rose garden and surface again by the river, 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.

The Morrígan: Complete Story of the Goddess of War, Fate and Prophecy | Irish Mythology for SleepA slow, quiet retelling of the story of the Morrígan, told from the beginning and made for falling asleep to.The whole story of the goddess of war, fate and prophecy, at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.She is difficult to pin down, and that appears to be deliberate. Sometimes she is one figure and sometimes three, sometimes a woman washing armour at a ford and sometimes a crow on a fencepost, and the old texts don't agree with each other about which. What she does is more consistent: she turns up before a battle and tells you how it's going to go, and by telling you, makes it happen. What follows is where she came from, the alliance she made on a riverbank on the eve of a war between two divine peoples, and the long quarrel with the greatest hero in Irish myth — she offered him something, he refused her without much courtesy, and she spent the rest of his life making sure he understood what that had cost. There's the shape-shifting fight in the river, the old woman with the cow, and the crow that lands on his shoulder at the end, which everyone watching immediately understood. She isn't cruel exactly. She just knows the ending already.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 before the first battle and wake up much later, in the middle of something you've missed the start of, 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, Irish mythology 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.

Robin Hood: The Complete Story Of The Legend of the Outlaw of Sherwood Forest | English Folklore for SleepA slow, quiet retelling of the Robin Hood legend, from the earliest ballads onward, made for falling asleep to.The whole story of the outlaw of Sherwood, told at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.He didn't arrive fully formed. The oldest surviving versions are ballads sung in taverns and marketplaces, and the man in them is rougher than the one people picture now — a yeoman rather than a lost nobleman, quick to violence, devoted to the Virgin Mary, and not yet in the business of giving anything to the poor. That part came later, and so did the king, and the crusade, and the woman. What follows is the whole shape of it: the men who joined him one by one, usually after losing a fight to him first, the quarterstaff on the bridge, the long-running war with a sheriff over a forest that belonged to the crown and to nobody else, the archery contest that was so obviously a trap, and the ending in a priory that is the saddest part of the legend and the part fewest people know. Along the way, the story of how an ordinary outlaw slowly became the one everybody kept.But the point of this recording isn't really the legend. 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 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 early in the forest and wake up much later, in the middle of something you've missed the start of, 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, English folklore and old stories 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.

King Arthur: The Complete Story Of The Legend of Camelot and the Fall of the Round Table | Arthurian Legend for SleepA slow, quiet retelling of the whole Arthurian legend, from the sword to the last battle, made for falling asleep to.The complete story of Camelot and how it came apart, told at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.It begins before he does — with a deception arranged by a magician, a child handed over and raised by somebody else entirely, and a boy who pulled something out of a stone without understanding what he was doing. What follows is everything built on top of that. A kingdom assembled out of a country that had been at war with itself. A table made round so that nobody sat at the head of it. The best knights anyone had ever seen, and a court that people still use as shorthand for the best of anything. And then the long, slow undoing: a quest that emptied the hall and killed most of the men who went on it, a friendship that couldn't survive what was going on underneath it, a son who should never have existed, and a last battle on a field where a misunderstanding over a drawn sword ended everything. He is carried off at the end to an island, not quite dead, which is the part everyone chooses to remember.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 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 before the sword comes out of the stone and wake up much later, long after the court has emptied, 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, Arthurian legend 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.

Theseus and the Minotaur: The Complete Story of the Labyrinth | Greek Mythology for SleepA slow, quiet retelling of the story of Theseus and the Minotaur, told from the beginning and made for falling asleep to.The whole story of the labyrinth, at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.It starts, as these things usually do, with someone breaking a promise to a god. A king was sent a bull out of the sea on the understanding that he'd give it back, and he kept it, and what came of that was a child that couldn't be shown to anybody. So a building was commissioned — designed by the cleverest man alive to be impossible to get out of — and the thing was put inside it, and every few years a ship arrived from Athens carrying young people who were sent in and not seen again. What follows is the young man who volunteered for that ship, the king's daughter who fell for him and gave him a length of thread, what happened in the middle of the labyrinth, and the far less satisfying business of what came afterwards: an island where somebody was left behind, and a sail that somebody forgot to change, and a father watching from a cliff. Almost nobody in this story ends up where they wanted to be.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 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 before the ship has even sailed and wake up much later, deep inside the labyrinth, 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 episodes every day.

Hel: Complete Story of the Quiet Goddess Who Ruled the Norse Underworld | Norse Mythology for SleepA slow, quiet retelling of the story of Hel, told from the beginning and made for falling asleep to.The whole story of the goddess who ruled the Norse underworld, at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.She's the least dramatic figure in Norse myth and possibly the most unsettling, because she doesn't do anything. She was one of three children born to a father the gods didn't trust and a mother from the other side, and when it became clear what all three of them were, she was the one thrown down rather than bound or sunk. What she was given was a place far below, cold and slow and enormous, and the responsibility for everyone who died the ordinary way — not in battle, just of illness or age or bad luck, which is nearly everybody. What follows is where she came from, what her hall was said to be like, and the one story in which the gods actually needed something from her: a rider sent all the way down to ask for someone back, and the answer she gave, which was fair and reasonable and impossible. She never raises her voice in any of it. She simply keeps what she's owed.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 and wake up much later, far below, 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 episodes every day.

Nyx, Hypnos and Morpheus: The Complete Story of Night, Sleep and Dreams | Greek Mythology for SleepA slow, quiet retelling of the Greek gods of night, sleep and dreams, made for falling asleep to. Which is either very fitting or slightly too on the nose, depending on how you look at it.The whole story of the three of them, told at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.The mother came first, and she came very early — one of the oldest things in existence, older than most of the gods and feared by the ones who weren't. There's a moment in the old poems where the king of the gods wants to punish someone and stops, because they've taken shelter with her and even he won't go that far. Out of her came a long line of children, most of them things nobody wants: age, strife, blame, the end. But also sleep, and out of sleep came the dreams. What follows is where each of them lived — a house at the edge of the world where no light reaches and no sound carries, with a river running past it that makes you forget — and what they were said to do at night. Sleep is described as the gentlest of them, the only one everybody welcomes, and the one who once did a very dangerous favour for a goddess and regretted it. His son is the one who takes the shape of people in your dreams, which is a strangely specific job and the reason his name still means something today.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 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 and wake up much later, in the house where sleep lives, 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 episodes every day.

Cronus and the Titans: The Complete Story of the Gods Who Ruled Before Olympus | Greek Mythology for SleepA slow, quiet retelling of the age before Olympus, told from the beginning and made for falling asleep to.The whole story of the gods who came first, at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.Everyone knows the twelve on the mountain. This is about the generation they replaced, and the one before that. It starts with almost nothing — a gap, and then a sky and an earth that came out of it and had children together, twelve of them, and a father who was so appalled by some of what he'd made that he pushed it back down inside the earth and left it there. Which is where the first son with a sickle comes in, at his mother's suggestion. What follows is the long stretch that came after: an age people later called golden, ruled by a king who had taken his father's place by force and spent every year of it waiting for it to happen to him. So he swallowed his children as they arrived, one after another, until his wife had had enough and handed him a stone instead. The rest is a ten-year war, and the older powers who came up out of the ground to help, and a new order that put the losers somewhere very far down. It's the oldest layer of the whole thing, and by far the strangest.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 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 very beginning and wake up much later, in the middle of a war between generations, 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 episodes every day.

Baba Yaga: The Complete Legend of the Forest Witch and Her Mysterious Hut on Chicken Legs | Slavic Folklore for SleepA slow, quiet retelling of the Baba Yaga legend, from the oldest tales onward, made for falling asleep to.The whole story of the witch in the forest and the house that walks, told at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.She is not a villain, exactly, and that's what makes her interesting. In the old tales she lives deep in the forest in a hut that stands on chicken legs and turns to face you, behind a fence made of bones, and she is the last thing you want to meet — and yet people go to her on purpose, because she has answers nobody else has. She helps roughly as often as she doesn't. What decides it is usually manners: how you speak to her, whether you do the work she sets, whether you are honest when there's no reason to be. What follows is where she came from, the tales she appears in and the children who walked into that clearing and walked back out again, the sisters and the doubles and the versions of her that don't agree with each other, and the fence, the mortar, the pestle and the hut, each of which meant something to the people telling it. She was old before any of the stories were written down, and nobody has ever quite managed to simplify her.But the point of this recording isn't really the legend. 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 on the path into the forest and wake up much later, deep in another story entirely, 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, Slavic folklore and old stories 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.

The Kraken: The Complete Legend of the Sea Monster Feared by Northern Sailors | Scandinavian Folklore for SleepA slow, quiet retelling of the kraken legend, from the old sailors' accounts to what was eventually found, made for falling asleep to.The whole story of the monster that northern sailors believed was down there, told at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.The kraken was not originally a monster in a story. It was something fishermen off Norway and Iceland believed was actually out there, the way you'd believe in a sandbank — a thing so large that men mistook its back for an island and landed on it, that pulled ships down with it when it went under, and that the best fishing was always found directly above, because of what gathered around it. What follows is where that belief came from, the old accounts of it in northern writing, the eighteenth-century bishop who wrote it all down in earnest and gave it the shape everybody knows, and then the strange second half of the story: the arms that washed ashore, the carcasses that turned up on beaches, and the slow realisation that something enormous and many-armed really does live down there in the dark, and had done all along. It just doesn't do any of the things people said it did.But the point of this recording isn't really the legend. 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 out on the old northern water and wake up much later, several centuries further along, 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, Scandinavian folklore and old stories 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.

Daedalus and Icarus: The Complete Story of the Inventor, the Labyrinth and the Flight Toward the Sun | Greek Mythology for SleepA slow, quiet retelling of the story of Daedalus and Icarus, told from the beginning and made for falling asleep to.The whole story of the inventor, the labyrinth and the flight, at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.Everyone knows how it ends, and almost nobody knows how it starts. Before any of the famous part, he was a craftsman in Athens who was so good at what he did that he could not bear someone else being better — including a nephew he was teaching, who invented something clever and did not survive the afternoon. That's why he was on the island in the first place. What follows is the work he did there: a hollow cow built for a queen who asked for something no one should have asked for, the creature that came of it, and the enormous winding structure he was ordered to build afterwards to hide the king's shame from the world. Then the thread he quietly handed to a young man who wanted to get out of it, and what that cost him. By the time he starts gathering feathers he is a prisoner of a king who cannot afford to let him leave, and the wings are not a marvel so much as the only door left. And then there is a boy, and a morning, and a warning given twice.But the point of this recording isn't really the ending. It's the hour or two before 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 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 in the workshop and wake up much later, out over open water, 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 episodes every day.

Prometheus: The Complete Story of the Titan Who Stole Fire from the Gods | Greek Mythology for SleepA slow, quiet retelling of the story of Prometheus, told from the beginning and made for falling asleep to.The whole story of the Titan who gave people fire, 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 one of the old ones, from the generation that lost, and he was the only one of them who saw which way it was going and changed sides in time. That should have set him up comfortably forever. Instead he spent the rest of his existence on the side of a species that had only just been made and could barely look after itself. What follows is the trick he played over how a sacrifice should be divided, which was funny once and expensive afterwards. The fire he took and carried down in a hollow stalk, knowing exactly what it would cost. The punishment on the rock at the edge of the world, and the particular cruelty of a wound that healed overnight so it could be opened again the next day. The woman who was made and sent down as the answer to all of it, and the jar she was told not to open. And the one thing he knew that his punisher didn't — a secret about the future that he could have traded at any moment for his freedom, and didn't, for a very long time.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 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 and wake up much later, on a rock at the edge of the world, 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 episodes every day.

Yggdrasil and the Nine Worlds: A Complete Journey Through the Norse Cosmos | Norse Mythology for SleepA slow, quiet journey through the nine worlds of Norse myth, one at a time, made for falling asleep to.The whole shape of the Norse cosmos, told at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.Everything in that world hangs on a tree. Not around it or under it — on it, with the nine worlds arranged along its branches and its roots, held together by something that is slowly being eaten from every direction at once. What follows is a walk through all of it. The world of the gods and the hall at the top of it. The world of people, in the middle, fenced off from what's outside. A world of fire at one end and a world of ice at the other, which between them made everything that exists. A world of giants, a world of the dead, and two worlds belonging to beings that the sources describe in ways that don't quite line up. And at the base of the tree, three women at a well who decide how it goes for everyone, including the gods. Whoever first imagined this was building a map of everything, and the strangest thing about it is how carefully the pieces fit.But the point of this recording isn't really the map. 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 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 roots and wake up much later, several worlds further along, 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 episodes every day.

Heracles and the Twelve Labors: The Complete Story of Monsters, Trials and Redemption | Greek Mythology for SleepA slow, quiet retelling of the labours of Heracles, told from the beginning and made for falling asleep to.The whole story of the strongest man in Greek myth, at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.People remember the labours and forget why he was doing them. He was hated from birth by a goddess who had good reason and no mercy, and what she eventually did to him was worse than anything she'd sent to kill him — she reached into his mind for a few minutes and left him to find out afterwards what he had done. The twelve labours were what came next: a penance, set by a cousin who was afraid of him and enjoyed the arrangement. What follows is all of it in order. A lion that couldn't be cut. A thing that grew two heads for every one taken off. A hind he chased for a year without ever quite catching it. Stables, birds, a bull, a belt, cattle from the far end of the world. And the last two, which weren't really about strength at all: apples that had to be talked out of somebody, and a walk down into the underworld to bring something back up. He is the loudest of the heroes and the saddest, and the labours were never really the hard part.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 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 around the first labour and wake up much later, several monsters further along, 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 episodes every day.

Shiva: The Complete Story of the Ascetic, Destroyer and Lord of the Cosmic Dance | Hindu Mythology for SleepA slow, quiet retelling of the story of Shiva, told from the beginning and made for falling asleep to.The whole story of the ascetic, the destroyer and the lord of the dance, 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 the strangest of the great gods, and the hardest to put in one place. He sits alone on a mountain for thousands of years without moving, covered in ash, doing nothing at all — and he is also the one whose dance keeps the whole universe turning. What follows is where he came from, the marriage that ended in something he carried across the world in grief, and the second marriage that took a mountain's daughter centuries of stillness to earn. There's the night he drank something that would have ended everything and held it in his throat rather than swallow or spit it out. The river that came down from the sky with enough force to break the earth, and how it was caught. The son who was given a new head because his father didn't recognise him at the door. And the dance itself, which is not a celebration of destruction so much as an argument that the ending and the beginning are the same movement. Destroyer is the word people use, but it isn't quite what it sounds like.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 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 on the mountain and wake up much later, in the middle of something you've missed the start of, 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.

Hephaestus: The Complete Story of the Rejected God Who Forged the Weapons of Olympus | Greek Mythology for SleepA slow, quiet retelling of the life of Hephaestus, told from the beginning and made for falling asleep to.The whole story of the god who was thrown out and forged everything anyway, at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.His own mother looked at him when he was born and threw him off the mountain. He fell for a day and landed in the sea, and was raised down there by two sea goddesses in a cave, where he taught himself to make things. That is the whole shape of his story: the only one of them who was rejected, the only one who worked with his hands, and the one who ended up making nearly everything the others depended on. What follows is the throne he sent up to his mother as a gift, which nobody could get her out of once she'd sat in it, and the terms he set for releasing her. The marriage he was given to a wife who had never wanted him, the affair she conducted with his brother, and the net so fine it couldn't be seen that he built to catch them both in front of everyone. The armour he made for a hero whose mother came to ask him personally. And the automatons he built to help him in the workshop, described three thousand years ago as golden women who could think, which is a strange thing to find in a poem that old.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 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 in the workshop and wake up much later, in the middle of something you've missed the start of, 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 episodes every day.

A slow, quiet retelling of the chupacabra legend, from the first reports to what people eventually found, made for falling asleep to.The whole story of Latin America's most famous modern monster, told at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.This one is young, which makes it unusual. Most folklore is centuries old and impossible to trace; this started in Puerto Rico in the mid nineteen nineties and spread across half a continent within a few years, and you can more or less watch it happen. It began with farm animals found dead in a way people couldn't explain, and one witness whose description — upright, spined, with large dark eyes — was given to a newspaper and never really left. What follows is how the story travelled: through Mexico, into the American southwest, into Chile and Brazil, changing shape as it went until the thing being described in Texas had almost nothing in common with the thing described on the island. Then the bodies started turning up, and were tested, and turned out to be coyotes and dogs with a severe skin condition that made them look like nothing anyone recognised. Which explains a great deal and, as usual, has settled nothing.But the point of this recording isn't really the legend. 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 in Puerto Rico in 1995 and wake up much later, several countries further along, 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, Latin American folklore and old stories 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.

Hestia: The Complete Story of the Quiet Goddess of the Hearth Who Guarded Every Home | Greek Mythology for SleepA slow, quiet retelling of the story of Hestia, the gentlest of the Greek gods, made for falling asleep to.The whole story of the goddess of the hearth, told at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.She is the one with almost no myths, and that turns out to be the interesting part. She was the eldest of them and the first to be swallowed and the last to be brought back up, and when it was all over and the world was being divided, she asked for nothing. Two of the others wanted to marry her and she turned them both down and asked instead to be left alone by the fire. What follows is what that meant in practice, because she may have the fewest stories and still had more worshippers than almost any of them. She was in every house in Greece, in the fire that was never allowed to go out. She got the first portion of every offering, before any of the loud ones did. A city sending people off to found a new colony would carry fire from its own hearth to light the first one there, so that the new place was connected to the old. She never left, never quarrelled, never took revenge on anybody, and was quietly present in more Greek lives than Zeus ever was.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 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 early on and wake up much later, in the middle of something you've missed the start of, 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 episodes every day.

A slow, quiet retelling of the Loch Ness legend, from the earliest accounts to the modern searches, made for falling asleep to.The whole story of Scotland's most famous lake creature, told at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.The loch itself is part of the appeal. It's long and narrow and very deep, dark with peat all the way down, and it never freezes. People have been telling stories about something in it for a very long time — there's an account from the sixth century of a holy man turning something back in the water, though it was a different river and a different kind of story. What follows is how it became what it is now: a road built along the shore in the early nineteen thirties that suddenly gave thousands of people a clear view of the water, a newspaper report, a photograph that everybody has seen and that took sixty years to unravel, and then decades of people arriving with better and better equipment. Sonar sweeps. Submarines. Eventually a survey that sampled the water itself for traces of whatever lives in it. None of it has settled anything, and people keep coming, which is arguably the more interesting story.But the point of this recording isn't really the legend. 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 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 in the sixth century and wake up much later, on a dark loch with a sonar screen going, 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, Scottish folklore and old stories 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.

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.

A slow, quiet retelling of Ragnarök, told from the first sign to the last, made for falling asleep to.The whole story of how the Norse world ends, at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.What makes this story different from most endings is that everybody in it already knows. The gods were told long in advance, in detail, and spent the rest of their existence preparing for something they had been informed they could not win. What follows is the sequence as it was handed down: the three winters with no summer between them, the world coming apart at the level of ordinary things first, the bindings that finally give way, the ship that sets out, the sky splitting open. Then the last battle, in which almost everyone meets the opponent they were always going to meet, and both of them fall. And then, after all of it, something quieter — water going back down, a green field, two people who slept through the whole thing in a wood, and a handful of the younger gods walking back to find the old game pieces lying in the grass. It's the bleakest story in Norse myth and it doesn't quite end where you'd expect.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 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 in the long winter and wake up much later, in the quiet after everything, 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.

A slow, quiet retelling of the story of Ares, told from the beginning and made for falling asleep to.The whole story of the god nobody wanted around, 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 the god of war in a culture that fought constantly and still didn't like him. His own father is on record saying he was the most hateful of all the gods. There's a version of war that the Greeks respected — strategy, defence, the sensible kind — and it belonged to somebody else entirely. What Ares got was the other part: the noise, the panic, the thing that happens to people on a battlefield once the plan has stopped working. What follows is where he came from, the fights he lost that he should have won, the long affair with the goddess he was never supposed to be with and the net they were both caught in, the trial he stood at a hill in Athens that gave the place its name, and the handful of moments where he turns out to be a father who came running when one of his children was in trouble. He is easier to dislike than any of the others, and harder to be fair to.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 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 and wake up much later, in the middle of something you've missed the start of, 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 episodes every day.

A slow, quiet retelling of the banshee legend, told from its oldest roots onward, made for falling asleep to.The whole story of the spirit whose cry came before a death, at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.She was never a monster, which is the part most people get wrong. In the older belief she belonged to a family — attached to certain old Irish lines, following them for generations — and what she did was mourn. She arrived before the death rather than after it, and the sound she made was the same sound the women of the household would make later, when the news had actually come. What follows is where the belief came from, the much older figures behind it, the way she was described by the people who claimed to have heard her, and the century in which she slowly turned from a family's own mourner into something frightening in a story. There's also the tradition she grew out of: the keening women who were paid to cry at funerals, a practice that lasted into living memory and was eventually discouraged out of existence. Underneath all of it is a very ordinary idea — that grief starts before the loss does, and that people used to have a way of saying so.But the point of this recording isn't really the legend. 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 and wake up much later, several centuries further along, 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, Irish folklore and old stories 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.

A slow, quiet retelling of the life of Artemis, told from the beginning and made for falling asleep to.The whole story of the goddess of the hunt, the moon and the wild, at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.She was born first and helped her mother through the birth of her brother, which tells you most of what you need to know about her. As a small child she was asked what she wanted and gave a list: a bow, a pack of hunting dogs, the mountains, and to be left alone by everyone forever. She got all of it. What follows is what that looked like in practice. The women who ran with her and what happened to the ones who broke the arrangement. The hunter who saw something he shouldn't have and did not live out the afternoon. The one man she may have loved, and the trick her own brother is said to have played to make sure that ended too. The city that killed a stag of hers and had to pay a price nobody wanted to pay. She is not the gentle version people expect from the moon. She is the wild itself, which is beautiful from a distance and does not care about you at all.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 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 out in the forest and wake up much later, in the middle of something you've missed the start of, 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, Mesoamerican stories 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.

A slow, quiet retelling of the journey of the Hero Twins into the underworld, made for falling asleep to.The oldest surviving story from the Americas, told at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.It begins one generation earlier, with two brothers who were summoned down below, played a game they were never going to be allowed to win, and did not come back. What follows is what happened to the sons: two boys who grew up knowing where their father had gone, and who eventually went down the same road on purpose. Below them was a place with a river of blood, a road that spoke, lords with names taken from every way a person can die, and a series of houses meant to be survived one night at a time — a house full of cold, a house full of blades, a house full of bats. The twins get through most of it by being cleverer than the people testing them, and by knowing exactly when to lose on purpose. And what finally undoes the lords of the underworld isn't strength at all. It's a trick, performed in front of an audience that couldn't resist asking for it to be done to them.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 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 top of the road down and wake up much later, far below, 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, Mesoamerican stories 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.

Odin The Complete Story of the Wanderer Who Sacrificed Everything for Wisdom | Norse Mythology for SleepA slow, quiet retelling of the life of Odin, told from the beginning and made for falling asleep to.The whole story of the wanderer who gave up everything he had for knowledge, 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 not a comfortable god. He was the highest of them and he spent most of his time out on the road in an old cloak and a wide hat, one-eyed, asking questions of anyone who would answer. What follows is what he paid for what he knew. An eye, given up at a well for a single drink. Nine nights hanging from a tree, wounded, with no food and no water and nobody to help him, in order to reach down and take up something that hadn't existed before. A long conversation with a dead woman who told him things he could not use and could not forget. He kept two birds who brought him the news of the world every evening, and he worried every day that one of them wouldn't come back. Everything he built, every hall and every hand-picked warrior, was arranged around a single piece of information he had gone to enormous trouble to obtain: how it was all going to end, and that he was not going to be able to stop it.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 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 out on the road and wake up much later, in the middle of something you've missed the start of, 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 episodes every day.

Psyche and Eros: The Complete Story of Mythology’s Greatest Love | Greek Mythology for SleepA slow, quiet retelling of the story of Psyche and Eros, told from the beginning and made for falling asleep to.The oldest love story in Western literature, at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.It begins with a girl so beautiful that people stopped visiting the temples and came to look at her instead, which was never going to end well for anybody. A goddess took offence. Her son was sent to punish the girl and did the opposite. What follows is a marriage in the dark to someone she was never allowed to see, a palace where every comfort arrived without anyone bringing it, and one night with a lamp that ruined everything. And then the long part: a girl walking the whole world looking for a husband she had lost by looking at him, taking on a series of tasks that were designed to be impossible, sorting seeds until dawn, going down into the underworld with a coin and a piece of bread. It was written down for the first time in a Roman novel almost two thousand years ago, and everything since — every sleeping girl, every beast who turns out to be a husband, every impossible task set by a jealous older woman — comes downstream from it.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 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 in the dark palace and wake up much later, in the middle of something you've missed the start of, 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 episodes every day.

A slow, quiet retelling of the life of Loki, told from the beginning and made for falling asleep to.The whole story of the trickster who brought down Asgard, 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 quite one of them. He lived among the gods, ate at their table, travelled with them, and was born to a different kind altogether — which nobody forgot, least of all him. For most of his story he's the one who causes the problem and then solves it, usually by making something worse first. He cut off a goddess's hair for no reason anyone could explain and ended up handing the gods their greatest treasures. He got them out of a bargain by turning himself into something else entirely and vanishing for a season. He talked his way into and out of more halls than anyone should survive. And then, somewhere along the way, it stopped being funny. There's a death he arranged that nothing could be undone from, a hall where he said out loud what everyone had spent centuries not saying, and a punishment that went far past anything he'd done. He is bound now, and everyone knows what happens when he isn't.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 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 and wake up much later, in the middle of something you've missed the start of, 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 episodes every day.

A slow, quiet retelling of the Mothman legend, from the first sighting to everything that came after, made for falling asleep to.The whole story of what people saw over that small West Virginia town, told at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.It starts on a November night in 1966, on an old abandoned stretch of land outside town, with two young couples driving home and something standing in their headlights that none of them could explain afterwards. Tall, grey, with wings folded behind it, and eyes that reflected red. They drove, and it kept pace with the car. What follows is the year that came next: more people seeing the same thing in the same few square miles, the strangers who arrived in town asking questions, the phone calls and the lights over the river, and a whole community that spent thirteen months not quite sure what it was living alongside. Then the bridge came down in December of 1967, and forty-six people died, and the sightings stopped almost immediately — which is the part that has kept the story alive ever since, whether or not there was ever any connection at all.But the point of this recording isn't really the legend. 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 on that first night in 1966 and wake up much later, a year further along, 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 American 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.

Aphrodite: The Complete Story and Most Beautiful Myths of Divine Love | Greek Mythology for SleepA slow, quiet retelling of the story of Aphrodite, told from the beginning and made for falling asleep to.The whole story of the goddess of love, at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.She didn't have a childhood. She came out of the sea already grown, from something violent that had happened long before she existed, and stepped ashore on an island that belonged to her from that day on. It's a strange origin for the gentlest of them, and it explains a great deal about how the rest of it went. What follows is the marriage she was placed into and never wanted, the god she chose instead, the trap her husband built when he found out, and the fact that none of the others could stop laughing. Then the mortal men she loved, and how briefly that tended to last. The young man she couldn't save, whose blood was said to have come up out of the ground as a flower. The apple she was given by someone who should have known better, and the ten-year war that came out of it. And the story where love and the soul are put through everything imaginable before they're allowed to end up together, which is the closest any of these myths get to a happy ending.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 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 out at sea and wake up much later, in the middle of something you've missed the start of, 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 episodes every day.

Trolls, Elves and Draugr: Complete Stories of Norse Mythic Creatures | Norse Folklore for SleepA slow, quiet journey through the creatures of the Norse world, made for falling asleep to.Hours of trolls, elves and the walking dead, told at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.The gods were never the whole population of that world. Most of it was filled with other things, and the people who told these stories lived a great deal closer to those than to any god. There were things in the rock and the mountains that were older than the gods and much less interested in people. There were beings of a different order altogether, beautiful and dangerous and best not bargained with, who could bring illness or luck depending on how they'd been treated. And there were the dead who didn't stay buried — heavy, swollen, still guarding what they'd owned in life, and far harder to deal with than any ghost, because they had a body. What follows is where all of it came from, what people believed about it, and what they did about it: the offerings left out, the ways a grave was built, and the precautions that had nothing to do with religion and everything to do with getting through the winter.But the point of this recording isn't really the creatures. It's the hour or two spent drifting through them. 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 out in the mountains and wake up much later, deep in another story entirely, 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 episodes every day.

A slow, quiet retelling of the story of Sleipnir, the horse with eight legs, made for falling asleep to.The whole story of the strangest animal in Norse myth, told at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.He exists because of a bad bargain. The gods had agreed to something they didn't want to pay for, and one of them — the one who was never entirely trustworthy and never entirely on anyone's side — went out to sabotage the work before the deadline arrived. What he did to stop it involved changing shape, and disappearing for a season, and coming back with a foal. That foal grew into the fastest thing in any of the nine worlds, grey, eight-legged, and the only animal that could carry a rider down into the land of the dead and back up again. What follows is where he came from, who rode him and where, the long journey made on his back to ask the dead for something they wouldn't give, and the fact that he turns up carved on stones a thousand years old, still with all eight legs, as though everyone simply agreed that this was how it was.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 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 and wake up much later, on a road between two worlds, 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 episodes every day.

A slow, quiet retelling of the life of Poseidon, told from the beginning and made for falling asleep to.The whole story of the god of the seas, 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 the middle brother, and he drew the sea. It made him the second most powerful of them and he never seemed to fully accept being second at anything. What follows is where he came from, the lot he drew and what he did with it, the weapon he was given that could split rock and open springs and shake the ground until cities came down. There's the contest over a city he lost by a single vote and never quite forgave. The horses, which he is said to have made or at least first given to people. The long list of sea creatures that came out of his part of the world, most of which nobody wanted to meet. And the sailor he pursued across ten years of open water for what was done to one of his sons, which is probably the longest grudge in any of these stories. He was worshipped by everyone who had to cross water for a living, which in the ancient world was almost everyone.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 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 and wake up much later, out in the middle of open water, 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 episodes every day.

A slow, quiet retelling of the voyage of the Argonauts, told from the beginning and made for falling asleep to.The whole story of the quest for the Golden Fleece, at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.It starts with a young man arriving in a city that should have been his, missing one sandal, and a king who recognised him immediately and sent him after something impossible rather than kill him outright. So a ship was built, and the crew that signed on for it was the largest gathering of heroes in any Greek story — most of them with their own legends attached, all of them squeezed onto the same deck for years. What follows is the voyage out: the islands where they were welcomed and the islands where they should have kept sailing, a crewman lost and a friend who refused to leave without him, a strait that ground ships to pieces between two moving rocks, and a long haul east to a kingdom at the end of the sea. Then the tasks that couldn't be completed, the king's daughter who decided to help him anyway, and the far messier business of getting home. It's the oldest sea story in Europe, and almost none of it ends the way you'd want it to.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 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 before the ship has even left harbour and wake up somewhere out at the far end of the sea, 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 episodes every day.

A slow, quiet retelling of the journey of Sun Wukong, told from the beginning and made for falling asleep to.The whole story of the Monkey King, 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 born out of a stone on a mountain top, which was already an unusual start, and he spent most of the rest of his life refusing to accept that anything was above him. What follows is the years he spent studying under a master who taught him things he was never meant to learn, the weapon he took from the bottom of the sea because nothing lighter would do, and the moment he crossed out his own name in the register of the dead. Then a long quarrel with heaven itself, a title he was given to keep him quiet that only made things worse, and a punishment that held him under a mountain for a very long time. And after that, the road west — the pilgrimage he was let out to protect, walking for years alongside a monk who could not defend himself, running into something new and stranger at every stage of it. He is proud, funny, impossible to kill, and slowly, over the course of the journey, he changes.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 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 on the mountain where he was born and wake up much later, halfway along the road west, 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 episodes every day.

Hermes: The Complete Story of the Cleverest Trickster on Mount Olympus | Greek Mythology for SleepA slow, quiet retelling of the life of Hermes, told from the beginning and made for falling asleep to.The whole story of the cleverest of the gods, at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.He got more done on his first day than most of them managed in a century. Born in a cave in the morning, out of the cradle by the afternoon, and by nightfall he had invented an instrument out of a tortoise shell and stolen a herd of cattle belonging to one of his own brothers — walking them backwards so the tracks pointed the wrong way. What follows is the argument that came out of that, the trial in front of their father where he talked his way out of it by giving away the very thing he'd just invented, and the job he was handed afterwards. Because he ended up being the one who carried messages between worlds, the only one who could go down and come back up again as he pleased, and the one who walked the dead the last part of the way. He looked after travellers and merchants and thieves without seeing much difference between them. Of all of them, he's the one who seems most like he'd be good company.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 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 in the cave where he was born and wake up much later, on a road between two worlds, 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 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.