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The Red Shepherd

“From the arid Tigris-Euphrates River Valley to the greater Levant; from the Bible to Frazer’s The Golden Bough; from pastoral plain to palace, the name of the lusty and tragic Dumuzid was spoken, written, and read. Whether in his Semitic form as Tammuz or his curious incarnation as Adonis, this complex god has as much paradox woven through his very being as his mercurial spouse, Inanna.

Sometimes man, sometimes god; both living and dead, his role in myth, cult, and ritual is never static and it is not surprising that academics consider him to be “bewildering.” It is this bewildering and wholly liminal figure that is explored in Samuel David’s latest book, The Red Shepherd: Towards A New Image of Dumuzid.

A stark departure from his previous title, Rod & Ring, The Red Shepherd combines historically informed adaptations of myth and liturgy; ritual running the gamut from the devotional to the erotic, exorcistic, and malefic, all with the express purpose of revivifying the cult of this ouranic, tellurian, and chthonic god in our own contemporary and quite liminal world.”

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Illustrated by Rowan E. Cassidy & Joseph Uccello, The Red Shepherd is available from Anathema Publishing Ltd.!

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