Anunnaki · The Tablets That Slept Three Thousand Years · 3 Hour Sleep Story
The Sleeping Almanac: Sleep Stories for Adults from Myth and Fairy TaleShow Notes
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. Subscribing on YouTube helps the show grow, even if you only listen here: youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac The Sleeping Almanac is also a shelf of books, bedtime stories to read and mythology coloring books: gildenmyth.com/books The tablets that first wrote the Anunnaki slept under a hill for two and a half thousand years, and tonight is the story of how they came back. A slow, calm 3 hour sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. The fire that saved a library by baking its books, the grassy mound that kept them, a soldier copying an unreachable cliff, a quiet clerk who taught himself the oldest writing on earth at lunch, the broken tablet that held a flood, and a man in 1976 who read the same clay and told a very different story. Tonight both readings get their say, each in its own voice, and you can decide for yourself.
Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes.
Chapters 0:00 Welcome 6:54 The Same Lamp 11:32 The King Who Collected 19:22 The Night the City Burned 24:34 What Fire Does to Clay 29:25 Two and a Half Thousand Years 38:41 The Men With Shovels 45:16 The Cliff at Behistun 51:42 The Clerk Who Taught Himself 57:10 The Eleventh Tablet 1:05:47 The Man Who Read Them Differently 1:20:23 The Long Chain of Hands 1:27:04 Goodnight. And the Tablet in the Quiet Room 1:35:05 Calm music to drift off
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