The Red Shepherd default-HIDE of choosing what you allow

of choosing what you allow in and what you keep sacred

Iolo Morganwg

The grass was damp with dew underfoot and the cool night air fresh in my lungs

raising energy

and who can be called upon to weave and un-weave the future

The Red Shepherd default-HIDE of choosing what you allowby 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