Gildenmyth
The Sleeping Almanac
Nausicaa and the Phaeacians · The Odyssey
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. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it.
Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight the gentlest kingdom in all the old world, and the night a long story folds quietly in two. A girl goes down to a river at dawn to wash her father's linen, finds the sea's last castaway asleep in the leaves, and does not run. There is a garden that bears in every season at once, pear behind pear and fig behind fig, forever. There are ships that need no steersman and know the way by thought alone. And in a bright hall a blind singer sings a certain war so truly that a stranger weeps into his cloak, and is asked at last the one question he has not answered in twenty years. A calm, hopeful telling of Nausicaa and the Phaeacians for sleep, calm enough to drift to and rich enough to stay awake for if you choose.
Close your eyes. Let the fire on the beach burn low. There is nothing to do now but listen and rest.
Chapters
- 0:00Welcome and the Singer at the Fire
- 4:30Chapter One: The Wagon at Dawn
- 12:00Chapter Two: The Stranger from the Leaves
- 20:18Chapter Three: The Walk Behind the Mules
- 30:06Chapter Four: The Garden That Bore in Every Season
- 39:05Chapter Five: The Queen's Sharp Eye
- 49:03Chapter Six: The Games and the Throw
- 1:00:28Chapter Seven: The Blind Singer
- 1:08:47Chapter Eight: The Song of the Horse
- 1:18:40Chapter Nine: I Am Odysseus
- 1:27:47Chapter Ten: The Gifts and the Farewell
- 1:35:09Chapter Eleven: The Ship That Steered Itself
- 1:41:03Chapter Twelve: Goodnight. And the Sleeper Carried Home
This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.