Noah's Birth · The Full Story of the Child Feared to Be Nephilim · 3 Hour Sleep Story
The Sleeping Almanac: Sleep Stories for Adults from Myth and Fairy TaleShow Notes
A baby is born in a house before the flood, and when he opens his eyes the whole house lights up like the sun, and his father runs, because in that generation a child who was too beautiful might be one of theirs. Tonight, the birth of Noah as the Book of Enoch tells it, and as the Dead Sea Scrolls tell it longer, in the first person, in a roll so badly damaged it was the last of the seven from the first cave to be opened: Lamech afraid, his wife Bitenosh swearing by the King of the heavens that the child is his, Methuselah walking to the ends of the earth to ask Enoch, and the answer that is a name. Then Noah in his own words, opening the first wine of the new world on a mountain and dividing the earth among his sons. Then Abram at the border of Egypt, dreaming of a cedar and a palm tree from one root, and Sarai weeping, and the court poem that describes her, and the two years, and his hands on the king's head. Then the walk round the edges of the land. The Book of Giants recapped in a chapter, the priest Levi taught the woods for the altar by his grandfather, and a dying priest telling his sons to keep the books. A three hour sleep story, the third night of Season Six, The Lost Books.
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Who put the jars in the cliff? Tonight, the Dead Sea Scrolls as the people who wrote them: a rule book that measured punishment in days, thirty of them for falling asleep in the meeting, a community that kept awake a third of every night to read aloud, two spirits in every heart, a scroll made of copper listing sixty four buried treasures that nobody has ever found, the longest scroll of all, hidden under a floor for years, in which God speaks in the first person about a temple that was never built, a war written down as a set of instructions for the trumpets, a book that was found twice, half a century apart, in a Cairo storeroom and a desert cave, a priest from three verses of Genesis raised into a heavenly judge, the one outsider who saw them and wrote it down in his own words, the oath they swore to keep the books and the names of the angels, and the machine, built only a year or so before this night and named Enoch, that was taught to read their handwriting. A three hour sleep story, the second night of Season Six, The Lost Books.
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Two hundred watchmen came down a mountain and would not go back. Tonight, the Book of Enoch tells what was decided about them, and how, and it is not a war in heaven. It is a sentence, carried down by four messengers with four instructions: a word in Noah's ear before anything else, the one who taught the making of knives put under rough stones in a hole in the desert, the giants turned on each other, and their leader bound under the hills for seventy generations. And then, because this is the Book of Enoch, a journey. The man who carried the answer is taken by the hand and walked to the ends of the earth and shown where the winds are kept, the fire in the west that receives every setting of the sun, the mouths of all the rivers, seven mountains of pearl and jacinth and alabaster with a summit of sapphire, the empty place where the stars that came up late are kept, the mountain in the west where the dead wait beside a spring, a tree like no other on the hill where the throne will be, with fruit like the dates of a palm, and, at the far edge of the east, the garden, still there, with the tree in it that his father and mother ate from. A three hour sleep story, the first night of Season Six, The Lost Books.
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