Ancient Egyptian mythology is obsessed with the transition between states — between life and death, between day and night, between the mortal world and the realm of the gods. The nightly journey of Ra through the underworld is literally a story about the sun god falling asleep and traveling through darkness before emerging renewed at dawn. It's hard to think of a mythology more perfectly suited to bedtime listening.
The Egyptian stories in our collection draw on three millennia of mythological tradition: the creation myths of Atum and the Ogdoad, the drama of Osiris and Isis, the journeys described in the Book of the Dead, and the everyday stories of gods who lived remarkably human lives. These tales are narrated with the same calm, unhurried pacing as all our stories — no excitement, no tension, just a gentle guided journey through the ancient Nile Valley.
For atmosphere, try layering wind or ocean sounds beneath Egyptian stories. The desert wind and the rhythmic flow of the Nile are the soundscapes of this mythology — they'll place you on the banks of the river at night, watching the stars that the Egyptians mapped into their gods.
