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Fall asleep to the entire story of Ra, the eternal sun god, in this Egyptian mythology sleep story told slowly and quietly for deep rest. A long, calm sleep story for grown ups and a bedtime story for adults drawn from history and mythology for sleep, narrated in a still voice across twenty-three chapters.
Not only the golden barque crossing the sky, but the full arc, beginning in a quiet welcome before the threshold of the Land of Pillars opens. The story descends into the boundless dark of Nun, where nothing yet existed, and watches the Benben stone rise and the first light be spoken into being. It follows the breathing forth of Shu and Tefnut, the gathering of the Nine of Heliopolis, and the great Cattle of Ra in the earliest age of the world. Then come the long middle passages: the aging of the king, the fury of the Eye sent as Sekhmet, the Red Beer poured across the fields at night to call her back, and the withdrawal of Ra upon the Heavenly Cow. It continues through Khepri rolling up the dawn, the Boat of Millions of Years passing the Gate of the Western Horizon, the night-boat and its companions moving through the Twelve Gates and their twelve hours, the serpent Apophis waiting in the deep and then overcome, the sacred merging of Ra with Osiris in the hidden chamber, and the god reborn at last from the body of Nut at the moment of first light.
It moves gently through the meanings gathered around his name: creation from stillness and formless water, the cycle of death and return, the terror of the Eye and the mercy that recalled it, the order that holds the night in place, the union of the hidden and the revealed, the serpent that must always be turned back, and the promise written into every dawn. Among the names resting within these pages: Khepri, Atum, Sekhmet, Bastet, Nut, Osiris, Shu, Tefnut, Thoth, the Ennead of Heliopolis, Apophis, the Duat, the Benben, and the Barque of Millions of Years. A bedtime story for adults told from the heart of Egyptian mythology, and from the quiet, ancient tradition of history and mythology for sleep.