Mythology And Folklore For Sleep
This show offers slow, soothing stories from world mythology, folklore, and ancient legends to help listeners relax and drift off to sleep. Episodes are typically around two hours long and are designed to be largely ad-free for a calm listening experience. The narration and selected visuals are assisted by AI, while the writing and production are done by a human creator.
Episodes
Achilles: The Complete Story of Greece’s Greatest Warrior and the Trojan War | Greek Mythology for Sleep
Achilles: The Complete Story of Greece’s Greatest Warrior and the Trojan War | Greek Mythology for SleepA slow, quiet retelling of the life of Achilles, made for falling asleep to.He was given a choice before he was old enough to understand it: a long, quiet life that nobody would ever hear about, or a short one that would be remembered for as long as anyone was telling stories. He knew which one
Fenrir: The Complete Story of the Giant Wolf the Gods Could Not Control | Norse Mythology for Sleep
Fenrir: The Complete Story of the Giant Wolf the Gods Could Not Control | Norse Mythology for SleepA slow, quiet retelling of the story of Fenrir, made for falling asleep to.The gods raised him themselves. That's the detail the story turns on. They knew what he was going to do — they'd been told, in some detail — and instead of dealing with it they brought him up among them, in their own h
Susanoo and Yamata no Orochi: The Complete Story of the Eight-Headed Serpent | Japanese Mythology for Sleep
Susanoo and Yamata no Orochi: The Complete Story of the Eight-Headed Serpent | Japanese Mythology for SleepA slow, quiet retelling of Susanoo and the eight-headed serpent, made for falling asleep to.It's a dragon-slaying story, and it's also the story of somebody's exile. He was thrown out of heaven — thoroughly, for good reason, after behaving so badly towards his sister that she shut
Selkies: The Complete Legend of the Seal People Who Walked on Land | Scottish Folklore for Sleep
Selkies: The Complete Legend of the Seal People Who Walked on Land | Scottish Folklore for SleepA slow, quiet retelling of the selkie legend, made for falling asleep to.Of all the stories that came out of the northern islands, this is the saddest, and it isn't close. There's no monster in it. Nobody is hunted. It's about a marriage.A seal comes ashore, slips out of its skin, and is a w
The Odyssey: The Complete Story of Odysseus and His Ten-Year Journey Home | Greek Mythology for Sleep
The Odyssey: The Complete Story of Odysseus and His Ten-Year Journey Home | Greek Mythology for SleepA slow, quiet retelling of the Odyssey, the whole way through, made for falling asleep to.Ten years to get home from a war that had already taken ten years. That's the shape of it. A man who was clever enough to end the longest siege in Greek legend, and then could not manage the one thing ever
Baldr: The Complete Story of the Beautiful God Whose Death Foreshadowed Ragnarök | Norse Mythology 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 thoroug
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: The Complete Story of the Round Table’s Strangest Quest | Arthurian Legend for Sleep
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
Pandora’s Box: The Complete Story of the Jar That Unleashed Evil and Left Hope Behind | Greek Mythology for Sleep
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 centur
The Valkyries: The Complete Story of Odin’s Mysterious Riders Between Life and Valhalla | Norse Mythology for Sleep
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
Cinderella: The Complete Story and Its Many Versions Around the World | Folklore for Sleep
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, t
Eos and Tithonus: The Complete Story of the Dawn Goddess and the Immortal Wish That Became a Curse | Greek Mythology for Sleep
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
St. George and the Dragon: The Complete Legend of England’s Patron Saint | English Folklore for Sleep
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
Pegasus: The Complete Story of the Winged Horse, Bellerophon and the Fire-Breathing Chimera | Greek Mythology for Sleep
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
Orpheus and Eurydice: The Complete Story of Love, Loss and the Underworld | Greek Mythology for Sleep
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 remark
Cerberus: The Complete Story of Hades’ Three-Headed Hound | Greek Mythology for Sleep
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 peo
The Cailleach: The Complete Legend of the Ancient Winter Goddess | Gaelic Folklore for Sleep
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 plac
Beowulf: The Complete Story of the Hero Who Slew Grendel | Anglo-Saxon Legend for Sleep
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 com
Hecate: The Complete Story of the Goddess of Witchcraft, Crossroads and Ghosts | Greek Mythology for Sleep
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, a
Kelpies: The Complete Legend of Scotland’s Shape-Shifting Water Horses | Scottish Folklore for Sleep
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 str
King Midas and the Golden Touch: The Complete Story of the Gift That Became a Curse | Greek Mythology for Sleep
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 f
The Morrígan: Complete Story of the Goddess of War, Fate and Prophecy | Irish Mythology for Sleep
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 d
Robin Hood: The Complete Story Of The Legend of the Outlaw of Sherwood Forest | English Folklore for Sleep
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'
King Arthur: The Complete Story Of The Legend of Camelot and the Fall of the Round Table | Arthurian Legend for Sleep
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
Theseus and the Minotaur: The Complete Story of the Labyrinth | Greek Mythology for Sleep
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 usuall
Hel: Complete Story of the Quiet Goddess Who Ruled the Norse Underworld | Norse Mythology for Sleep
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 l
Nyx, Hypnos and Morpheus: The Complete Story of Night, Sleep and Dreams | Greek Mythology for Sleep
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
Cronus and the Titans: The Complete Story of the Gods Who Ruled Before Olympus | Greek Mythology for Sleep
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 tw
Baba Yaga: The Complete Legend of the Forest Witch and Her Mysterious Hut on Chicken Legs | Slavic Folklore for Sleep
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 mea
The Kraken: The Complete Legend of the Sea Monster Feared by Northern Sailors | Scandinavian Folklore for Sleep
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&
Daedalus and Icarus: The Complete Story of the Inventor, the Labyrinth and the Flight Toward the Sun | Greek Mythology for Sleep
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'
Prometheus: The Complete Story of the Titan Who Stole Fire from the Gods | Greek Mythology for Sleep
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 o
Yggdrasil and the Nine Worlds: A Complete Journey Through the Norse Cosmos | Norse Mythology for Sleep
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
Heracles and the Twelve Labors: The Complete Story of Monsters, Trials and Redemption | Greek Mythology for Sleep
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.Peopl
Shiva: The Complete Story of the Ascetic, Destroyer and Lord of the Cosmic Dance | Hindu Mythology for Sleep
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
Hephaestus: The Complete Story of the Rejected God Who Forged the Weapons of Olympus | Greek Mythology for Sleep
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
The Chupacabra: The Complete Legend of Latin America’s Mysterious Goat-Sucking Creature | Folklore for Sleep
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 ol
Hestia: The Complete Story of the Quiet Goddess of the Hearth Who Guarded Every Home | Greek Mythology for Sleep
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 Loch Ness Monster: The Complete Legend of Scotland’s Mysterious Lake Creature | Scottish Folklore for Sleep
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
Anubis: The Complete Story of the Soul’s Journey Through the Afterlife | Egyptian Mythology for Sleep
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 o
Ragnarök: The Complete Story of the Final Twilight of the Norse Gods | Norse Mythology for Sleep
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 de
Ares: The Complete Story of the Feared and Misunderstood God of War | Greek Mythology for Sleep
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
The Banshee: The Complete Legend of the Spirit Whose Cry Warned of Death | Irish Folklore for Sleep
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 fam
Artemis: The Complete Story of the Goddess of the Hunt, the Moon and the Wild | Greek Mythology for Sleep
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
The Maya Hero Twins: The Complete Story of Their Journey into the Underworld | Mayan Mythology for Sleep
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
Odin The Complete Story of the Wanderer Who Sacrificed Everything for Wisdom | Norse Mythology for Sleep
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
Psyche and Eros: The Complete Story of Mythology’s Greatest Love | Greek Mythology for Sleep
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 bea
Loki: The Complete Story of the Trickster God Who Brought Chaos to Asgard | Norse Mythology for Sleep
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 dif
Mothman: The Complete Legend of Point Pleasant’s Red-Eyed Visitor | American Folklore for Sleep
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 la
Aphrodite: The Complete Story and Most Beautiful Myths of Divine Love | Greek Mythology for Sleep
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. S
Trolls, Elves and Draugr: Complete Stories of Norse Mythic Creatures | Norse Folklore for Sleep
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
Sleipnir: Complete Story of Odin’s Eight-Legged Horse Between Worlds | Norse Mythology for Sleep
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
Poseidon: The Complete Story of the God of Seas, Storms and Sea Monsters | Greek Mythology for Sleep
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 bein
Jason and the Argonauts: The Complete Quest for the Golden Fleece | Greek Mythology for Sleep
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 recogn
The Monkey King: The Complete Mythic Journey of Sun Wukong | Chinese Mythology for Sleep
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
Hermes: The Complete Story of the Cleverest Trickster on Mount Olympus | Greek Mythology for Sleep
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 d
Pan: The Complete Story of the Wild God of Shepherds, Music and Forests | Greek Mythology for Sleep
A slow, quiet retelling of the story of Pan, the wild god of the woods, made for falling asleep to.The whole story of the god of shepherds, music and forests, 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 never lived on the mountain with the others. He stayed down in the hills where the flocks were, half goat and
Apollo: Complete Story of the God of Light, Music, Healing and Prophecy | Greek Mythology for Sleep
A slow, quiet retelling of the life of Apollo, told from the beginning and made for falling asleep to.The whole story of the god of light, music, healing 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.He was given more to look after than any of the others, which is part of why his story goes on so long. He ar
Durga and the Demon Who Could Not Be Defeated | Hindu Mythology for Sleep
A slow, quiet retelling of the story of Durga and the demon nobody could kill, 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.It begins with a problem the gods couldn't solve. A demon had been granted something that made him untouchable by any of t
Vampires Before Dracula: Complete History of the Ancient Restless Dead | Folklore for Sleep
A slow, quiet history of the vampire, from long before anyone wrote a novel about one, made for falling asleep to.The whole story of the restless 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 vampire didn't start out as a count in a castle. For most of its history it was something much older and much sa
Persephone: Complete Story of the Goddess Who Lived Between Two Worlds | Greek Mythology for Sleep
Persephone: Complete Story of the Goddess Who Lived Between Two Worlds | Greek Mythology for SleepA slow, quiet retelling of the life of Persephone, told from the beginning and made for falling asleep to.The whole story of the goddess who belonged to two worlds, at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.She started as
Sekhmet: Complete Story of Egypt’s Lion Goddess Who Nearly Ended Humanity | Mythology for Sleep
Sekhmet: Complete Story of Egypt’s Lion Goddess Who Nearly Ended Humanity | Mythology for SleepA slow, quiet retelling of the story of Sekhmet, told from the beginning and made for falling asleep to.The whole story of Egypt's lion goddess, 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 made for one purpose, and
Athena: The Complete Story of the Goddess Born from Zeus’s Head | Greek Mythology for Sleep
A slow, quiet retelling of the life of Athena, told from the beginning and made for falling asleep to.The whole story of the goddess who was born fully grown, at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.She arrived in the strangest way any of them did, and she never quite stopped being her father's favourite because
Hades: The Complete Story of the God Who Ruled the Greek Underworld | Greek Mythology for Sleep
Hades: The Complete Story of the God Who Ruled the Greek Underworld | Greek Mythology for SleepA slow, quiet retelling of the life of Hades, told from the beginning and made for falling asleep to.The whole story of the god who ruled the Greek underworld, at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.He was never the villa
Slavic and European Folklore: Complete Stories of Gods, Spirits and Legends | Folklore for Sleep
A slow, quiet journey through the old folklore of Slavic and European lands, made for falling asleep to.Hours of gods, spirits and half-remembered legends, read at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.These are the stories that came out of forests and rivers and long winters, told by people who lived close to all of
Egyptian Underworld: The Complete Story of Its Gates and Guardians | Egyptian Mythology for Sleep
A slow, quiet journey through the Egyptian underworld, gate by gate, made for falling asleep to.Hours of old Egyptian belief and story, read at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.The Egyptians mapped the land of the dead the way other people map a country. It had a geography, and a night that had to be crossed fro
The Greatest Adventures of Thor Across the Nine Worlds | Norse Mythology for Sleep
The Greatest Adventures of Thor Across the Nine Worlds | Norse Mythology for SleepA slow, quiet journey through the adventures of Thor, told across the nine worlds and made for falling asleep to.Hours of old Norse stories, read at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.Thor was never the wisest of the gods, and that&#
Medusa: The Complete Story From Maiden to Monster | Greek Mythology for Sleep
Medusa: The Complete Story From Maiden to Monster | Greek Mythology for SleepA slow, quiet retelling of the Medusa story, told from the beginning and made for falling asleep to.The whole life of Medusa, 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 who was not a monster. A priestess in a temple, a li
Bigfoot: The Complete Story of America’s Greatest Wilderness Legend | Folklore for Sleep
The whole history of America's most famous monster, told from the very 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.It starts long before anyone used the word Bigfoot. Stories carried for generations by the peoples of the Pacific Northwest, and the Halkomelem word sásq'ets, meaning wild man, which E
The Complete Story of Zeus: How the Storm God Became King of Olympus | Greek Mythology for Sleep
A slow, quiet retelling of the life of Zeus, made for falling asleep to.The life of Zeus, told from the very 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.It starts with a baby hidden in a cave on Crete, kept alive by a goat while his father searched for him. Cronus swallowing his own children one by one. Rh
