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(Calm music for sleep. No talking.)
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The Sleeping Almanac
Slavic Myth Music · Winter Forest Night
Plays this episode, then the rest of Live Sleep Sessions · Mythology Music in order.
The Sleeping Almanac is also a shelf of books, bedtime stories to read and mythology coloring books: gildenmyth.com/books
Three hours of calm music from the world of Slavic myth, made to help you fall asleep and stay asleep through the whole night. A bonus for the quiet nights, the same music playing tonight on our live sleep stream, three hours with no talking at all.
Tonight is a winter night in the forest, a stove somewhere behind you, one gusli string touched and let ring over a low bowed drone, with wind over open snow underneath the whole time. Our Slavic season opens this month with two specials, and on Halloween night, Saturday October 31, the first of them, Dziady, plays live for eleven hours. Its twelve nights begin on Sunday, November 15.
The music is original to the show, made with AI music tools and mixed for sleep: no melody that swells, no percussion, nothing sudden.
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More stories and first looks at new seasons: gildenmyth.com
Read the story
The full narration of this episode, chapter by chapter. Open a chapter to read it.
More sleep stories
- Nergal and Ereshkigal: The Full Story of the Queen of the Underworld
- Adapa and the South Wind: The Full Myth of How He Refused Eternal Life
- Anzu and the Stolen Tablet of Destinies: The Full Story
- Mesopotamian Mythology Sleep Stories · The Enuma Elish and Gilgamesh
- Inanna's Descent to the Underworld Part 2: The Full Story of Her Return
- Dziady · The Full Story of the Slavic Halloween When the Dead Come to Supper