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The Sleeping Almanac
The Epic of Gilgamesh Part 3: The Full Story of the Flood and the Plant
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The Epic of Gilgamesh, night three, and it is the kind one. A king walks out of his own city in a lion skin looking for the one man who never died. Tonight is the mountain with the twin peaks, the woman with the beer house at the edge of the world, the ferryman and the punting poles, the flood told by the man who survived it, the test with the loaves, the plant at the bottom of the sea, and the ending that has been quietly changing people's minds for four thousand years. 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
- 0:00Welcome
- 5:20The Lion Skin
- 9:02The Mountain With a Gate In It
- 13:07Twelve Hours of Dark
- 17:30The Garden of Stones
- 23:47The Woman With the Tavern
- 28:54What She Told Him
- 33:29The Waters of Death
- 36:59The Man Who Did Not Die
- 41:44The Flood, in His Own Words
- 50:33Seven Loaves
- 55:36The Plant, and the Snake
- 1:00:09The Wall
- 1:11:54Calm music to drift off
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