Old Gods Sleep Stories
Ancient Greek, Norse & Egyptian mythology told slowly from primary sources for deep sleep.
Welcome to Orabeam—an ad-free nocturnal storytelling sanctuary. Every evening we broadcast complete 3-hour bedtime stories drawn directly from Hesiod, Homer, the Eddas, medieval parish chronicles, and deep-space logs, blended with composed 3D night soundscapes.
Hesiod's Theogony, the Homeric Hymns, Apollodorus, Pausanias, and the Poetic & Prose Eddas. · 11,800 words · 11 chapters
Layer live procedural night acoustics underneath tonight's YouTube narration—or let it run all night with our gradual sleep fade-out and screen blackout dimmer.
Choose how your mind feels right now and the atmosphere you want to step into—we will match you to the right sanctuary and configure your soundscape.
Classical Greek & Norse myths told slowly by harbour lamp light with zero mid-roll ads.
Each sanctuary is an independent YouTube channel and podcast feed with its own historical sources, theatrical narrator, and custom 3D acoustic palette.
Ancient Greek, Norse & Egyptian mythology told slowly from primary sources for deep sleep.
Unhurried 3-hour journeys through medieval villages, monastery scriptoriums & quiet everyday history.
Year-round snowed-in cabin stories, Victorian winter folklore & crackling hearthside warmth.
Candlelit English country estates, rain against drawing-room windows & clean slow-burn Regency tales.
Calm archival investigations into vanished expeditions, Admiralty logs & historical maritime mysteries.
Peaceful nocturnal retellings of the Psalms, Ruth, David & ancient Near Eastern pastoral traditions.
3-hour meditative descents into the deep ocean abyss and slow journeys across the observable universe.
Our studio masters two 3-hour episodes every 24 hours. Subscribe on YouTube or join the nightly letter so tonight's premiere awaits you at bedtime.
Odin's whole mythic life from the Poetic and Prose Edda: the eye given at Mimir's well, nine nights on Yggdrasil and the runes, the ravens, the mead o
Achilles from Thetis and the river Styx to Skyros, the ships at Aulis, the quarrel with Agamemnon, Patroclus, Hector and the heel; from Homer's Iliad,
Thor's full cycle from the Eddas: Mjolnir's forging, the journey to Utgard-Loki, the stolen hammer, fishing for the World Serpent, to Ragnarok; one he
Notes from listeners drifting off across time zones. Leave a comment on tonight's YouTube premiere or light a candle from your city via email.