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Fall asleep to the complete story of Osiris, Lord of the Silent Land, in this Egyptian mythology sleep story told slowly and quietly for rest. A long, calm sleep story for grown ups, narrated in a gentle voice for deep relaxation and relief from a restless mind.
Not only the murdered king and the grief of his queen, but the full arc: beginning with a quiet welcome in a still room before the river is named, moving through the origins of sky and earth and the children born of Nut and Geb, through the gentle reign of Osiris over the living world and the loyal, unwavering presence of Isis beside him, into the gathering shadow of Set, the beautiful chest prepared as a snare, the great banquet and the terrible game, the river receiving its king and bearing him away, and Isis walking alone across the world in search of what was lost; through the long grief of finding, the pillar of tamarisk at Byblos and the patient vigil in the palace of a foreign king, the long journey home across open water, the body scattered upon the wind by Set a second time, and the slow, tender gathering in the reed marshes; through the wings of Isis breathing warmth across the still form, the hidden child Horus growing quietly in the Delta, Horus rising at last to claim the throne before the council of the gods, the weighing of the heart in the lamplit hall of the Duat, and finally the reflection on the grain and the green and the whole great turning of death into life that Osiris holds at its centre.
It moves gently through the meanings gathered around his name: death as threshold, resurrection as return, the Nile flood that restores the fields, the loyalty that crosses every boundary, the patience of grief, the persistence of love, and the quiet justice of the balanced scale. Sacred names and presences woven through the telling include Isis, Set, Horus, Nephthys, Anubis, Thoth, the Duat, the feather of Ma'at, the djed pillar, the crook and the flail, the Nile, and the hall of the two truths. This is a bedtime story for adults drawn from Egyptian mythology, a long and unhurried telling from history and mythology for sleep, offered to carry you gently out of the waking world.