Book of Enoch · The Books the Bible Left Out · Part 1 of the Full Story · 3 Hour Sleep Story

Erra and Ishum is the only poem in this season whose author put his own name at the end and told us how he wrote it. He says it came to him in a dream, and that he wrote it down in the morning without adding a line. Tonight is a god of war who cannot

Bonus: three hours of calm sleep music, no talking.

Two nights ago a table was set in a wooden house, and a place was left empty, and a woman said her father's name to a chair. Tonight a priest walks past that house on his way home from saying the office for the dead, sees the candle in the window, knows exactly what it means, and keeps walking.

Bonus: six Mesopotamian Mythology sleep stories in one 11 hour episode.

Tonight there is a place set at the table for somebody who is not coming. The chair has been left empty on purpose, the bowl in front of it is full, and in a moment somebody is going to say a name out loud in a quiet room and mean it. This is Dziady, the night of the grandfathers, kept in log farmhouses across the Slavic lands every autumn for longer than anyone can measure, and still kept in a few places tonight while you fall asleep.