A slow, quiet retelling of the life of Poseidon, told from the beginning and made for falling asleep to.
The whole story of the god of the seas, at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.
He was the middle brother, and he drew the sea. It made him the second most powerful of them and he never seemed to fully accept being second at anything. What follows is where he came from, the lot he drew and what he did with it, the weapon he was given that could split rock and open springs and shake the ground until cities came down. There's the contest over a city he lost by a single vote and never quite forgave. The horses, which he is said to have made or at least first given to people. The long list of sea creatures that came out of his part of the world, most of which nobody wanted to meet. And the sailor he pursued across ten years of open water for what was done to one of his sons, which is probably the longest grudge in any of these stories. He was worshipped by everyone who had to cross water for a living, which in the ancient world was almost everyone.
But the point of this recording isn't really the story. It's the hour or two spent drifting through it. The voice stays low and even the whole way through. No music, no sound effects, nothing that rises or drops or suddenly arrives. Every sentence sits at roughly the same level as the one before it, so nothing ever pulls your attention back up to the surface.
That's what makes it work on the nights when your head won't switch off. It's just interesting enough to give your thoughts something to hold, and slow enough that they let go of it on their own. You don't have to follow along. You don't have to remember any of it in the morning. If you drift off somewhere near the beginning and wake up much later, out in the middle of open water, you've used this exactly the way it's meant to be used. Most people don't make it past the first half hour, and the rest will still be here tomorrow night.
Put it on, turn the volume down, and let it go on without you.
Mythology & Folklore for Sleep — long, calm retellings of Greek myths, Norse legends, Egyptian tales, Hindu epics, Chinese classics and old folklore from around the world, made for insomnia and the hours when you can't sleep. Bedtime stories for adults, told in a slow, quiet voice. New episodes every day.
