Eleven hours for sleep. The complete story is told once, followed by the same quiet ambience through the rest of the night. This bonus accompanies the holiday live stream.
Tonight there is a place set at the table for somebody who is not coming. The chair has been left empty on purpose, the bowl in front of it is full, and in a moment somebody is going to say a name out loud in a quiet room and mean it. This is Dziady, the night of the grandfathers, recorded in differing household forms across parts of the Slavic lands, and still kept in a few places tonight while you fall asleep.
The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice.
The first of two Halloween specials that open Season Seven, the Slavic season. The stove that feeds the whole house. An early written account of these people, by a Byzantine secretary in the sixth century. The walk to the graves with bread wrapped in linen. The names said aloud at the head of the table, and the candle and morning dismissal in our pictured house. Told plainly and slowly, distinguishing recorded customs from the imagined house that carries the story.
Watch the live on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXi9rMI8HDA
More stories and books: gildenmyth.com
Chapters
0:00 Welcome
5:13 The Extra Place
10:48 The Early Account
19:12 The People Without a Book
30:07 The House That Feeds
38:46 The Road to the Graves
47:09 The Names Said Aloud
51:59 The Ones Who Come Hungry
59:40 The Candle and the Window
1:05:16 The Other Door
1:12:10 The Dismissal
1:17:33 The Ones Who Wrote It Down
1:25:38 Goodnight. And the Place Still Set
1:32:07 Fireplace ambience to drift off