From the Sea to the Stars (Premium)
Get Sleepy: Sleep meditation and stories
Slumber Studios
4.6 • 10.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2021
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Thomas here. You're listening to a preview episode. You can enjoy the entire story |
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| 0:59.7 | The center of the island is rocky and mountainous. It gradually gives way to gentlest slopes, |
| 1:13.6 | green fields, and finally sparkling white beaches. These pristine stretches of sand curve around |
| 1:28.6 | the island like a protective ring, creating a striking divide between land and sea. |
| 1:38.9 | The ocean is a deep hypnotic shade of blue, fading into turquoise as it reaches the coast. |
| 1:51.4 | The beauty of this island is legendary. Its name is Naxos, and in more than 200,000 years |
| 2:02.3 | of habitation, it has barely changed at all. Heards of goats and sheep graze in the fields. |
| 2:15.3 | Others gather crops and harvest olives from the groves surrounding their small, whitewashed |
| 2:23.0 | houses. The life here is pleasant but simple. Life was simple even for the princess of the |
| 2:37.4 | island, Ariadne. Despite her wealth and status, she lived a relatively ordinary life. She |
| 2:50.0 | was not interested in fine clothes or extravagant banquets. She wore her crown reluctantly only |
| 3:00.2 | because her family insisted on it. In fact, as Ariadne roamed the fields and coastal paths |
| 3:09.1 | of her native island, she might easily have been mistaken for a shepherdess. The only thing |
| 3:18.5 | which indicated her royal status was her golden crown, glinting in the sunlight. When |
| 3:30.2 | Ariadne was at home in the white palace where she had grown up, she was usually busy with |
| 3:38.2 | her duties. But she felt happiest when she was outside, exploring the island on long, |
| 3:48.4 | rambling walks. Sometimes she would walk through the fields and forests, breathing |
| 3:57.5 | in the fresh scent of the cypress trees. On other days, she would set off early and |
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