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A slow, calm Egyptian mythology sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight, the gentle and tender story of how the good green king Osiris passed out of the seen world, a brother in shadow, a beautiful chest, and a river that carried the king gently away, told softly as a seed going into the dark to rise, never as a loss.This is a bedtime story for adults, made for sleep, insomnia, and quiet nights when the mind will not switch off. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. There is nothing in it to fear. Just let it drift over you.Episode 6 of 12 · Egyptian Mythology · The Sleeping Almanac.Where this sits: Part 6 of 12 in the Egyptian cycle, one continuous telling of the gods in story order, from the first sunrise onward. Tonight, the green king passes gently from the world. Each episode stands on its own, and in order they tell one long story.Chapters 0:00 Welcome 3:15 The Shadow at the Edge of the Feast 9:58 The Quiet Gathering 16:09 The Taking of the Measure 22:37 The Beautiful Chest 29:15 The Banquet 35:22 The Game 41:35 The King Lies Down 47:49 The River Takes Him 53:55 The Far Shore 59:22 The Tree by the Sea 1:05:18 What the Death of Osiris Meant 1:12:07 Goodnight. And the Serpent at the Edge of Dawn 1:16:56 Calm music to drift offDrawn from the ancient Egyptians themselves and from the Greek writer Plutarch, who preserved the fullest account of the green king's passing. These are retellings. Where the ancient sources fall silent or disagree, we fill the gaps gently and in their own spirit, choosing the telling that serves a calm night.New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Everything in one place: https://gildenmyth.comThis show uses AI tools (script research, narration, visuals) under the direction of a human editor. Every episode is researched, reviewed, and revised before publication.

A slow, calm Egyptian mythology sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight, the gentle story of Osiris, the green king, the kindest ruler the old world had known, who taught a wandering people to plant the grain and tend the vine and reigned over a long golden age of peace beside his queen Isis.This is a bedtime story for adults, made for sleep, insomnia, and quiet nights when the mind will not switch off. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. You do not have to follow it. Just let it drift over you.Episode 5 of 12 · Egyptian Mythology · The Sleeping Almanac.Where this sits: Part 5 of 12 in the Egyptian cycle, one continuous telling of the gods in story order, from the first sunrise onward. Tonight, Osiris the green king and his long golden reign. Each episode stands on its own, and in order they tell one long story.Chapters 0:00 Welcome 2:38 The King Who Was Born to Be Loved 10:23 A Land Without Settled Ways 18:28 The Teaching of the Grain 24:13 The Gift of the Vine 30:48 The Laws and the Gods 39:16 The Queen at His Side 47:01 The Green Crown 53:39 The Journey Out 1:02:23 The Land at Peace 1:10:16 The Brother in the Shadows 1:16:28 What the Green King Meant 1:23:52 Goodnight. And the Serpent at the Edge of Dawn 1:28:17 Calm music to drift offDrawn from the ancient Egyptians themselves, from the Pyramid Texts and the old temple traditions of Osiris, and from the Greek writer Plutarch, who preserved the fullest account of the green king's reign. These are retellings. Where the ancient sources fall silent or disagree, we fill the gaps gently and in their own spirit, choosing the telling that serves a calm night.New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Everything in one place: https://gildenmyth.comThis show uses AI tools (script research, narration, visuals) under the direction of a human editor. Every episode is researched, reviewed, and revised before publication.

A slow, calm Egyptian mythology sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight, the gentle tale of Thoth, the wise moon god, who won five new days for the world at a quiet game played by moonlight, the five days on which the great gods were born.This is a bedtime story for adults, made for sleep, insomnia, and quiet nights when the mind will not switch off. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. You do not have to follow it. Just let it drift over you.Episode 4 of 12 · Egyptian Mythology · The Sleeping Almanac.Chapters 0:00 Welcome 3:24 The Sky and the Earth in Love 12:13 The Jealous Decree 20:54 The Year That Had No Room 27:30 The Wisest of the Gods 38:15 The Moon and the Game 47:58 Playing for Light 56:58 The Making of Five Days 1:07:27 The First Day, Osiris 1:17:03 The Second Day and the Third 1:26:30 The Fourth Day and the Fifth 1:35:10 The Year Made Whole 1:45:29 Goodnight. And the Serpent at the Edge of Dawn 1:51:33 Calm music to drift offDrawn from the Egyptians themselves and from the Greek writer Plutarch, and from the real Egyptian calendar, which truly did keep five extra days each year as the birthdays of the gods.New episodes every Wednesday and Sunday. Everything in one place: https://thesleepingalmanac.comThis show uses AI tools (script research, narration, visuals) under the direction of a human editor. Every episode is researched, reviewed, and revised before publication.

A slow, calm Egyptian mythology sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight, the tale of the Eye of Ra, the lioness Sekhmet whose fury was calmed at last not by force but by a field flooded the color of dawn.This is a bedtime story for adults, made for sleep, insomnia, and quiet nights when the mind will not switch off. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. You do not have to follow it. Just let it drift over you.Episode 3 of 12 · Egyptian Mythology · The Sleeping Almanac.Chapters 0:00 Welcome 4:00 The Aging of the Sun 15:11 The Whispering of Mankind 24:18 The Council in the Night 33:58 The Eye Becomes the Lioness 43:44 The Going Forth 52:56 The Sun Repents 1:01:34 The Brewing in the Night 1:11:25 Seven Thousand Jars 1:21:45 The Lioness at Dawn 1:31:20 The Calming 1:39:00 Hathor Returns 1:48:02 Goodnight. And the Serpent at the Edge of Dawn 1:53:30 Calm music to drift offDrawn from one of the great Egyptian temple texts, the Book of the Heavenly Cow, carved on the walls of the tombs of the New Kingdom pharaohs.New episodes every Wednesday and Sunday. Everything in one place: https://thesleepingalmanac.comThis show uses AI tools (script research, narration, visuals) under the direction of a human editor. Every episode is researched, reviewed, and revised before publication.

A slow, calm Egyptian mythology sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight, the patient tale of how the goddess Isis won the secret name of Ra, the one hidden word that held all his power.This is a bedtime story for adults, made for sleep, insomnia, and quiet nights when the mind will not switch off. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. You do not have to follow it. Just let it drift over you.Episode 2 of 12 · Egyptian Mythology · The Sleeping Almanac.00:00 Welcome07:07 The Age When the Gods Walked the Earth18:21 The God Who Had Grown Old26:39 Isis, the Great of Magic36:52 The Secret Name47:44 The Drop That Fell55:43 The Shaping of the Serpent1:06:04 The Turning of the Road1:15:13 None Could Heal Him1:25:06 The Healer's Price1:33:40 The Naming of Names1:40:25 The Name Passes1:49:44 Goodnight. And the Serpent at the Edge of Dawn1:56:44 Calm music to drift offDrawn from an ancient Egyptian papyrus now kept in Turin, where this very tale was written down as a healing spell more than three thousand years ago.New episodes every Wednesday and Sunday. Everything in one place: https://thesleepingalmanac.comThis show uses AI tools (script research, narration, visuals) under the direction of a human editor. Every episode is researched, reviewed, and revised before publication.

A slow, calm Egyptian mythology sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight, the gentle tale of Ra and the very first sunrise, from the dark still waters before the world began.This is a bedtime story for adults, made for sleep, insomnia, and quiet nights when the mind will not switch off. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. You do not have to follow it. Just let it drift over you.Episode 1 of 12 · Egyptian Mythology · The Sleeping Almanac.Chapters 0:00 Welcome 4:29 The Waters That Had No Shore 14:14 The First Mound 24:36 The One Who Made Himself 34:22 The First Breath and the First Rain 44:01 The Lost Children and the Weeping Eye 52:35 Earth and Sky 1:02:36 The Sun Takes Its Throne 1:13:05 The Boat of Millions of Years 1:20:44 The Three Faces of the Sun 1:29:08 The Measuring of the Day 1:37:46 The Descent 1:47:30 Goodnight. And the Serpent at the Edge of Dawn 1:52:11 Calm music to drift offDrawn from the oldest Egyptian sources, the Pyramid Texts and the Heliopolitan creation tradition.New episodes every Wednesday and Sunday. Everything in one place: https://thesleepingalmanac.comThis show uses AI tools (script research, narration, visuals) under the direction of a human editor. Every episode is researched, reviewed, and revised before publication.

Tonight, on the very last night of the old world, you walk with the gods toward their own ending. The wolf slips his chain. The serpent rises from the sea. The horn sounds. The fire comes. And then, very softly, a green earth at dawn, and a few gold chess pieces lying in the new grass.This is the season finale of The Sleeping Almanac — twelve nights inside Norse myth, ending exactly where the seers said it would end. And then, gently, beginning again.Settle in. Lower the lights. Goodnight.CHAPTERS00:00 Welcome01:35 Chapter I: The Fimbulvetr08:22 Chapter II: Brother Will Kill Brother14:09 Chapter III: The Wolf Slips the Chain20:42 Chapter IV: The Serpent Stirs27:12 Chapter V: The Ship of Nails34:07 Chapter VI: The Horn40:58 Chapter VII: The Gods Arm49:04 Chapter VIII: Odin and the Wolf55:42 Chapter IX: Thor and the Serpent1:03:58 Chapter X: The World Burns and Drowns1:10:41 Chapter XI: The Green Earth1:19:15 Chapter XII: Goodnight. And the Wolf at the Edge of TimeEVERYTHING IN ONE PLACEhttps://thesleepingalmanac.comSources tonight from Vǫluspá and Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda.Goodnight, dear listener. Goodnight.

Tonight, a giantess walks down out of the cold mountains to demand the gods make right what they have broken. She comes alone. She comes armed. And she will not leave until she has chosen a husband by his feet.This is the story of Skadi, the goddess of winter, of skis, of bows, of the high cold country. The story of her father killed by the gods. The story of her quiet impossible bargain. The story of a marriage that did not work, and a goddess who walked herself home.Settle in. Lower the lights. Goodnight.CHAPTERS00:00 Welcome01:56 Chapter I: The Hall of Þjazi07:49 Chapter II: The Winter March11:22 Chapter III: The Goddess at the Gate14:39 Chapter IV: The Three Demands19:27 Chapter V: The Row of Feet23:27 Chapter VI: Loki and the Sky29:18 Chapter VII: The Nine Nights at Þrymheimr39:26 Chapter VIII: The Nine Nights at Nóatún49:14 Chapter IX: The Slow Parting57:59 Chapter X: The Long Walk Back1:05:03 Chapter XI: The Goddess in the Mountains1:12:58 Chapter XII: Goodnight. And the Wolf at the Edge of TimeEVERYTHING IN ONE PLACEhttps://thesleepingalmanac.comSources tonight from Skáldskaparmál, Gylfaginning, and Lokasenna.Goodnight, dear listener. Goodnight.

Tonight: how poetry came into the worlds.Of Kvasir, the wisest being ever made, brewed from the breath of every god in Asgard. Of his murder by two clever dwarves who poured his blood into three vessels and hid them. Of Suttungr the giant, who took the vessels into a hollow mountain and set his daughter Gunnlǫð to guard them. And of Odin, who walked east in disguise as Bǫlverkr the worker, drilled into the mountain in the shape of a snake, drank the mead in three long draughts, and flew home as an eagle to give poetry to the gods and to men.A 3 hour sleep story for adults, drawn from Snorri's Prose Edda and the Hávamál. Old north narration, calm pacing, ambient music. Made to drift into, not to follow.· Chapters ·00:00 Welcome01:44 Chapter I: The Spit in the Jar10:41 Chapter II: The Wisest Being in the Worlds15:22 Chapter III: The Dwarves at the Door23:53 Chapter IV: The Drowning of Gilling29:11 Chapter V: The Brother's Revenge37:45 Chapter VI: The Mead in the Mountain45:29 Chapter VII: Bǫlverkr at the Farm55:44 Chapter VIII: The Summer of Nine Men's Work1:05:47 Chapter IX: The Drill in the Stone1:11:23 Chapter X: The Snake in the Mountain1:16:16 Chapter XI: The Three Nights1:31:01 Chapter XII: Goodnight. And the Wolf at the Edge of Time.· About The Sleeping Almanac ·3 hour sleep stories drawn from the world's old mythologies. New episodes every Wednesday and Sunday.Everything in one place: thesleepingalmanac.com· Disclosure ·This story is narrated with a voice clone of the host, scored with AI generated ambient music, and illustrated with AI generated still images. The script is written by hand from the source texts.

Tonight, the strongest of the gods wakes to an empty bed and an empty hand. Mjǫllnir, the hammer that holds the sky together, has been stolen in the night. Loki borrows Freyja's falcon cloak and flies east to Jǫtunheimr, where the giant king Þrymr is waiting on his high mound with a price for its return. The price is Freyja herself. Freyja refuses, the gods sit in council, and the only road forward is the one no one wants to take. Þórr is dressed in fine wheat linen and a bridal veil, Loki agrees to come as the handmaid, and the two of them ride east to a wedding feast in the cold hall of the giants. A bride who eats an entire ox. A quick tongue that has an answer for every strange thing. A veil that lifts just long enough for two burning eyes to be seen. And then the hammer brought out at last to bless the marriage, laid in the bride's lap, and the hand that closes around the haft. Let it carry you down into sleep.Chapters:0:00 Welcome1:25 Chapter 1. The Empty Pillow10:10 Chapter 2. The Borrowed Wings17:15 Chapter 3. The Hall of Þrymr25:40 Chapter 4. The Demand31:41 Chapter 5. The Refusal38:25 Chapter 6. The Counsel of the Gods52:41 Chapter 7. The Bridal Veil1:02:11 Chapter 8. The Road East1:09:31 Chapter 9. The Wedding Feast1:17:04 Chapter 10. The Eye Beneath the Veil1:27:20 Chapter 11. The Hammer on the Knee1:40:14 Chapter 12. Goodnight. And the Wolf at the Edge of Time.1:50:22 Music to sleep byWatch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanacEverything in one place: https://thesleepingalmanac.comNew episodes every Wednesday and Sunday.Sources: the Þrymskviða from the Poetic Edda (Codex Regius, 13th century Iceland), with chapter framing and Hávamál anchors drawn from the same manuscript tradition. Retold as an original written narrative.This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

Tonight, the strongest of the gods goes fishing for the end of the world. Þórr travels east to a giant's hall for a cauldron large enough to brew the sea, and before dawn he rows a small boat out past every fishing bank a man has ever known, into the deep water where the Serpent waits. He baits a line with the head of an ox and lets it down, and far below, the thing that circles the world takes the hook. A slow, strange story of a god and a monster meeting eye to eye, and the small old hand that cut the line and gave the world a little more time. Let it carry you down into sleep.Chapters:0:00 Welcome3:09 Chapter 1. The Cauldron That Was Not There8:18 Chapter 2. The Journey East12:26 Chapter 3. The Grandmother and the Mother16:28 Chapter 4. The Return of Hymir20:41 Chapter 5. The Three Oxen27:48 Chapter 6. The Bait34:41 Chapter 7. The Rowing Out40:54 Chapter 8. The Whales45:04 Chapter 9. The Pull52:57 Chapter 10. The Eye1:05:02 Chapter 11. The Cut1:17:26 Chapter 12. Goodnight. And the Wolf at the Edge of Time.1:27:54 Music to sleep byWatch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanacNew episodes every Wednesday and Sunday.Sources: the Poetic Edda (Hymiskviða) and Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda (Gylfaginning), with the fishing scene preserved on the Altuna and Gosforth picture stones, retold in an original written narrative.This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

Tonight, the feast in Ægir's hall by the sea, where the gods gathered to drink and one uninvited guest spoke every cruel and true thing he had ever held back. Of Bragi and Iðunn. Of Óðinn lowering his cup. Of Frigg, who heard at the table the name of the one responsible for her son's death. Then the flight to the high mountain. The hall with four doors. The salmon in the dark pool below the waterfall of Fránangr. The first fishing net the world had ever seen. And the cave with three stones, where a wife knelt with a wooden bowl raised above her husband's face for the rest of time, because what else was there for her to do.This is the Lokasenna and what came after. The hinge of the season. Everything in Norse mythology that follows, the slow tilt toward Ragnarǫk, begins on the night Sigyn first raised the bowl.Episode 7 of a complete twelve part season.Chapters:0:00 Welcome3:44 Chapter 1. The Hall by the Sea8:53 Chapter 2. The Seat He Claimed16:29 Chapter 3. Bragi and Iðunn21:22 Chapter 4. The Old Wounds33:43 Chapter 5. The Vanir's Shame38:43 Chapter 6. Týr's Hand and Freyr's Sword45:58 Chapter 7. Heimdallr and Skaði53:59 Chapter 8. Sif and the Coming of Þórr1:02:39 Chapter 9. The Mountain Hall1:12:24 Chapter 10. The Net of Ash1:23:17 Chapter 11. The Three Stones1:39:58 Chapter 12. Goodnight. And the Wolf at the Edge of Time.1:48:17 Music to sleep byWatch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanacNew episodes every Wednesday and Sunday at 8pm ET.🎧 Follow the show so the next story finds you. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sleeping-almanac/id1896899316 · Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033vbQDixCCfxEWvl1XFJQSources: the Poetic Edda (the Lokasenna), the Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson, and the Vǫluspá, retold in an original written narrative.This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

Tonight, the brightest of the gods begins to dream of his own ending. Baldr, the most loved and the most gentle, wakes from dreams of death, and his mother Frigg walks the whole world asking every living thing to swear it will never harm him. Everything swears, except one small plant she passes by. A slow, sorrowful story of love, an overlooked thing, and a grief that even the gods cannot undo. Let it settle over you softly.Chapters:0:00 Welcome8:04 Chapter 1. The Dream That Baldr Had15:29 Chapter 2. The Long Ride to Hel18:50 Chapter 3. The Seeress Who Did Not Want To Speak25:35 Chapter 4. Frigg's Long Walking35:35 Chapter 5. The Sport of the Gods40:53 Chapter 6. The Old Woman at Frigg's Door45:57 Chapter 7. The Plant West of Valhǫll51:33 Chapter 8. The Brother Who Could Not See56:37 Chapter 9. The Throw1:02:03 Chapter 10. The Greatest Ship in the World1:13:13 Chapter 11. Hermóðr's Nine Nights1:32:38 Chapter 12. Goodnight. And the Wolf at the Edge of Time.1:46:27 Music to sleep byWatch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanacNew episodes every Wednesday and Sunday.Sources: the Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson (Gylfaginning) and the Poetic Edda (Vǫluspá and Baldrs draumar), retold in an original written narrative.This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

Tonight, the gods discover they can grow old. Iðunn keeps the apples that hold age away, and when Loki, cornered by a giant in eagle feathers, gives her up, the halls of the gods begin to gray and stiffen and slow. To undo it, Loki must fly north as a falcon and carry her home before the oldest of them forgets how to stand. A gentle story about time, and the quiet panic of losing it, told slowly enough to lose track of time yourself.Chapters:0:00 Welcome2:03 Chapter 1. The Hunger of Three Wanderers10:08 Chapter 2. The Ox That Would Not Cook17:06 Chapter 3. The Pole That Stuck23:26 Chapter 4. The Oath Sworn in the Sky31:16 Chapter 5. The Goddess of Apples42:28 Chapter 6. The Story Loki Told51:00 Chapter 7. The Wings of Þjazi1:00:22 Chapter 8. The First Gray Hair1:15:08 Chapter 9. The Falcon Cloak1:23:08 Chapter 10. The Nut and the Fire1:32:30 Chapter 11. The Daughter Who Came for Vengeance1:45:28 Chapter 12. Goodnight. And the Wolf at the Edge of Time.1:56:08 Music to sleep byWatch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanacNew episodes every Wednesday and Sunday.Sources: the Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson (Skáldskaparmál) and the skaldic poem Haustlǫng, retold in an original written narrative.This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

Tonight, the gods try to hold back the future. A wolf is growing among them, larger and stronger each day, and the gods know how the story is meant to end. They bring him chains, and call it a game, and he breaks them. Then they bring a ribbon made of impossible things, and a single god is brave enough, or honest enough, to pay the price of the lie. A calm, sad story about fate beginning to set. Let it settle over you slowly.Chapters:0:00 Welcome2:04 Chapter 1. The Three Children of Loki12:47 Chapter 2. The Wolf Brought to Asgard21:57 Chapter 3. Týr, the One Who Fed Him31:51 Chapter 4. The First Two Chains40:10 Chapter 5. Down to Svartalfheim Again47:20 Chapter 6. The Six Impossible Things57:34 Chapter 7. The Ribbon in the Hand1:04:37 Chapter 8. The Test the Wolf Proposed1:10:37 Chapter 9. The Binding1:16:38 Chapter 10. The God Who Could Not Hold a Sword1:28:14 Chapter 11. What Was Lost. What Was Held.1:35:42 Chapter 12. Goodnight. And the Wolf at the Edge of Time.1:47:30 Music to sleep byWatch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/7P8vw9jK5Y4New episodes every Wednesday and Sunday.Sources: the Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson (Gylfaginning) and the Poetic Edda, retold in an original written narrative.This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

Tonight, a wager in the dark under the mountains. Loki, having cut the golden hair from Thor's wife while she slept, must replace it, and to do so he sets the finest dwarven smiths against one another. Out of their forge come a ship that folds into a pocket, a spear that never misses, a ring that makes more of itself, and a short handled hammer that will become the most famous object in all the nine worlds. A slow, warm story of craft and mischief. Drift off beside the forge.Chapters:0:00 Welcome1:55 Chapter 1. Thor, the God of the Hammer11:34 Chapter 2. Sif and the Golden Hair20:58 Chapter 3. Loki, the Trickster31:38 Chapter 4. The Cutting41:13 Chapter 5. Down to Svartalfheim50:15 Chapter 6. The Sons of Ivaldi59:44 Chapter 7. The Wager (Loki Bets His Head)1:09:15 Chapter 8. The Fly at the Bellows1:21:05 Chapter 9. Gullinbursti and Draupnir1:29:53 Chapter 10. The Making of Mjǫllnir1:41:14 Chapter 11. The Judgment of the Gods1:48:16 Chapter 12. Goodnight. And the Hammer at Rest2:01:36 Music to sleep byWatch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/J1fn8PAVAjYNew episodes every Wednesday and Sunday.Sources: the Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson, retold in an original written narrative.This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

Tonight, the Allfather goes looking for what he does not yet know. He comes to the well at the root of the world, where Mímir keeps the water of wisdom, and he pays for a single drink with an eye. Later he hangs nine nights on the windswept tree, wounded and alone, until the runes rise to him out of the dark. A quiet story about how much a god will give to understand the world. Let it carry you down slowly.Chapters:0:00 Welcome1:46 Chapter 1. The God Who Could Not Be Still8:44 Chapter 2. The Many Names of the Allfather16:52 Chapter 3. Thought and Memory, the Two Ravens24:41 Chapter 4. The Wolves at His Throne31:43 Chapter 5. The Spear and the Ring39:02 Chapter 6. The Well Beneath the World52:28 Chapter 7. The Eye in the Water1:01:40 Chapter 8. Sleipnir, the Eight legged Horse1:09:24 Chapter 9. The Hanging on the Tree1:26:38 Chapter 10. What the Runes Whispered1:41:15 Chapter 11. The Wisdom He Brought Back1:48:49 Chapter 12. A Quiet Reflection on the Allfather1:53:15 Chapter 13. Goodnight, and the Allfather Continues1:56:48 Music to sleep byWatch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/wAZlnkpF0uMNew episodes every Wednesday and Sunday.Sources: the Hávamál and the Eddas, retold in an original written narrative.This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

Tonight, the shape of everything. Before the gods have names you know, there is a tree, and from its branches and roots hang nine worlds. We move slowly through each one, from the fire of Muspelheim to the mist of Niflheim, the halls of the gods, the home of giants, and the dark below, until the whole map of Norse reality is laid out quietly around you. This is the orientation episode of the season. Everything that follows happens somewhere on this tree.Chapters:0:00 Welcome1:49 Chapter 1. The North Before the Gods9:50 Chapter 2. Ginnungagap, the Yawning Void18:18 Chapter 3. The First Fire and the First Frost26:40 Chapter 4. Ymir, the First Being36:56 Chapter 5. The Sons of Borr and the Slaying of Ymir45:59 Chapter 6. The Making of the World57:24 Chapter 7. Yggdrasill, the World Tree1:08:02 Chapter 8. The Nine Worlds Named1:19:00 Chapter 9. The Wells Beneath the Roots1:28:19 Chapter 10. The Bridge of Burning Light1:36:58 Chapter 11. A Quiet Reflection on the Edda1:45:11 Chapter 12. Goodnight, and the Beginning1:49:50 Music to sleep byWatch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/HpgRqADGzToNew episodes every Wednesday and Sunday.Sources: the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson, retold in an original written narrative.This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

A slow, calm place for the world's oldest stories, told for the listener who cannot quite turn off. Season 1 is Norse mythology, narrated across a single season long arc, from the nine worlds to Ragnarǫk.How to use the show: press play, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow and the music never spikes. You are not meant to stay awake.New episodes every Wednesday and Sunday.Follow everywhere, and watch the illustrated versions on YouTube: https://beacons.ai/thesleepingalmanacThis show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.