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Inanna's Descent to the Underworld Part 2: The Full Story of Her Return

3 hours · The Sleeping Almanac · October 11, 2026

Inanna's Descent to the Underworld Part 2: The Full Story of Her Return
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The Descent of Inanna, second half, and it is about a bill coming due. Nobody leaves the great below without sending someone back in their place. Tonight is the gaunt officers who walk beside her, the four stops on the road home, the shepherd under the apple tree who did not mourn, the flight and the dream and the sister who would not say where he was, and the bargain at the end that is the reason the year has two halves. A slow, calm 3 hour sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep.

Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. You do not have to follow it. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning.

These are retellings drawn from the real tablets and the real history. Where the old stories turn toward fear or cruelty, we turn gently toward comfort, choosing the telling that serves a calm night. Where scholars disagree, the disagreement is said out loud rather than smoothed over.

Season Five of The Sleeping Almanac: Mesopotamia. Twelve nights.

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Chapters

  1. 0:00Welcome
  2. 5:05Nobody Ascends Unmarked
  3. 11:16The Ones Who Came Up With Her
  4. 14:21The Faithful One
  5. 21:29The One Who Was Sitting in the Dust
  6. 26:21The Second One in the Dust
  7. 29:29The Apple Tree
  8. 34:32Change My Hands
  9. 41:16The Dream
  10. 44:15His Sister
  11. 47:20The Friend
  12. 52:26Half the Year Each
  13. 1:06:19Sweet Is Your Praise
  14. 1:10:29Calm music to drift off

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