THE RED SHEPHERD: Towards a New Image of Dumuzid by Samuel David – Limited Edition Hardcover
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Collector’s HARDCOVER Edition (Limited to approx. 1000 copies — 2023): Format: 5.25 x 8.25 inches (215.9 X 133.35 mm Portrait). 192 pages. Hardbound 100pts, Half-bound in ‘Rust’ Stone-Like Textured Material and Iridescent Weave Ivory-colored buckram bookcloth. Bronze foil blocking on rounded spine. Bronze & White foil stamping front cover. Carmine Red + Black interior, with Vermillion colored, textured Endpapers. Dark Brown Headband and Tailband. Fully Illustrated by Rowan E. Cassidy. Fine typography, design & layout by Joseph Uccello. Preface by ceremonial magician Alexander Eth, host of the Glitch Bottle podcast. Printed on Munken Pure Smooth Cream 150gsm archive-quality paper. Comes with a numbered tipped-in carton-plate signed by the Author.
Through The Red Shepherd, Samuel David invites you to enter into the presence of the god of both the living and the dead whose name and power are the breath of life which quickens the child in the womb; the eroticism of the virile lover; the psychopomp who leads ghosts in his train; the intercessor who takes the burden sickness and disease from his supplicants.
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 priest; warrior; captain of the host and commander of chariots; a god who stands at the gates of Heaven, possesses a throne upon the Earth, and is seated beside Ereškigal, the great queen of the Underworld.
Wholly informed by academic sources and personally applied praxis, The Red Shepherd: Towards a New Image of Dumuzid includes relevant myths and mythopoetic lacunae texts; transliterated liturgical compositions written by the author; ritual texts inspired by historical source material.
CONTENTS:
Preface, by Alexander Eth
Introduction
Lacunae Myths of the God
The Shepherd The Son The Bridegroom The King The Descent The Ascent
Liturgy of the God
He Who Stands Watch He Who Delights His Mother, He Who Delights His City’s God He Who Comes Forth In Radiant Splendor He Who Stands In Eternal Joy He Who Stands Upon the Road of Lamentation He Who Rises Anew
Rites of the God
The Sheepfold The Horned One of the Steppe The Hand of the Kurgarrû The Petition to Utu for the Aid of Spirits The Allalu Bird The Cult Image The Syncretic Rite to the God of Many Faces
The God in Retrospect
The God The Names & Epithets of the God The Cult Centers & Temples of the God The Cult Festivals of the God
THE RED SHEPHERD: Towards a New Image of Dumuzid by Samuel David - Limited Edition Hardcover
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Christopher Hincapie
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Samuel David is a terrific writer and provides wonderful insight into the Mesopotamian deity Dumuzid. I have always been fascinated with ancient Mesopotamian and Sumerian mythology and this text is an intriguing look at the religion of the people who existing in this region thousands of years ago.
Once again, Anathema Publishing has produced a beautiful book with quality materials which embody the magic of this ancient civilization.