World Mythology Stories for Sleep: Ring of the Nibelung, Maya and Aztec, Hindu, Japanese, Greek
Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries
Olimpia Pérez
4.5 • 755 Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2026
⏱️ 318 minutes
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| 1:03.6 | Hello everyone. I'm Olympia. Thank you for being here with me in this wonderful place called Lights Out Library. And I have a great story to tell you. |
| 1:19.0 | Once upon a time, a gold ring was forged that gave its owners the power to rule the world. |
| 1:23.0 | But this is not the story you are thinking about. |
| 1:29.3 | Tonight we're going to make a new journey to the world of myths and legends. And this time, I take you to Germany to tell you these stories and discover where they came from. |
| 1:39.3 | I have set up camp in the southwest of Germany in the black forest. |
| 1:46.7 | It is an atmospheric place with its own history and local legends. |
| 1:53.8 | We'll talk about this too. |
| 1:56.8 | And it's a good place to tell you about Germanic and norse mythologies we'll see how the two are closely related and we will do it through the ring of the nimbolung |
| 2:10.0 | which in itself is not an ancient myth it is the name given to a cycle of operas by Richard Wagner, the Rheingold, the Valkyrie, Sigfried, and Twilight of the Gods. |
| 2:27.3 | These operas are monuments of music from the 19th century, and they are very much a product of their time, which is yet |
| 2:36.8 | another thing we will discuss. |
| 2:39.5 | But we are going to focus on the stories they contain, which are reinvention of much older |
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