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 off
Drawn 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.
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