The Red Shepherd WHOLESALE-HIDE If using a lodestone

If using a lodestone

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The Red Shepherd WHOLESALE-HIDE If using a lodestoneby Samuel David Illustrations by Rowan E. Cassidy Myth would inform us that Dumuzid was merely the effete, hapless shepherd god who invoked the anger of his wife, Inanna, and became little more than a footnote in myth. Erotic poetry; liturgical texts and hymns; magical formulae, however, indicate something greater. In such texts, we find that Dumuzid is more than a mere pastoral deity standing guard over the sheepfold. He appears as a king; high