THE RED SHEPHERD: Towards a New Image of Dumuzid by Samuel David
Quebec: Anathema, 2023. First edition. Collector's Edition, #88 of a limited 1000 copies with signed and numbered card tipped in; 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 Fedrigoni’s Freelife Kendo White 150gsm paper; 192 pages. Item #33046
Cloth bound in fine condition.
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…
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