Gildenmyth
The Sleeping Almanac
Odysseus the Beggar and Argos the Dog · The Odyssey
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Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight a king walks into his own house as a beggar, and only a dog knows him. He comes down the goat track from the high farm in rags, past the spring where the road bends, and lets a rude man kick him without answering. At his own gate an old hound lifts his head, thumps his tail once in the dust, and lets go of a life he had only been holding on to for this. Inside, the great hall is loud with men eating another man's cattle, and the ragged stranger goes along the tables with his hands out and takes what they give him, insults and bread alike, while his own son watches and says nothing. Upstairs the queen sits at a loom she has been quietly unweaving by lamplight for three years. And in a quiet corner an old nurse kneels to wash a beggar's feet, finds a scar above his knee that she has known since he was a boy, and is hushed before she can cry out. A calm, hopeful telling of the return to the hall for sleep, calm enough to drift to and rich enough to stay awake for if you choose.
Close your eyes. Let the lamps in the hall burn down. There is nothing to do now but listen and rest.
Chapters
- 0:00Welcome and the Singer at the Fire
- 4:34Chapter One: The Road Down to the Town
- 10:30Chapter Two: An Unkindness on the Road
- 16:02Chapter Three: The Old Dog on the Warm Heap
- 26:20Chapter Four: The Beggar at His Own Door
- 31:54Chapter Five: The Thrown Stool
- 40:18Chapter Six: The Queen Among the Wasters
- 48:05Chapter Seven: The Web Told by the Weaver
- 56:01Chapter Eight: The Cloak and the Brooch
- 1:04:52Chapter Nine: The Basin and the Scar
- 1:14:24Chapter Ten: The Dream of the Geese
- 1:21:30Chapter Eleven: The House Going Quiet
- 1:25:59Chapter Twelve: Goodnight. And the House Asleep Around Its Secret
This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.