The Red Shepherd
Authored by: Samuel David
Published by: Anathema Publishing
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.
Through this book, 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.
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Collector’s Edition
Publication date: 2023.
ISBN: 978-1-989339-27-5
Original price: £62/CA$105
Copies printed: Limited to 1000 copies.
Contributors
Illustrated by: Rowan E. Cassidy.
Typeface, design & layout by: Joseph Uccello.
Preface by: Alexander Eth (ceremonial magician, host of the Glitch Bottle podcast)
Physical Description
Dimensions: 5.25 x 8.25 inches (215.9 X 133.35 mm Portrait).
Page Count: 192 pages.
Other physical details: Individually numbered.
Binding
Binding: 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.
Paper: Printed on Fedrigoni’s Freelife Kendo White 150gsm paper.
Typography: Fine typography.
Content Note
Accompanying material: Comes with a numbered tipped-in carton-plate signed by the Author.
Artisanal Edition
Publication date: 2023.
ISBN: 978-1-989339-27-5
Original price: £412/CA$699
Copies printed: Limited to 25 copies.
Contributors
Illustrated by: Rowan E. Cassid
Typeface, design & layout by: Rowan E. Cassidy and Joseph Uccello.
Preface by: Alexander Eth (ceremonial magician, host of the Glitch Bottle podcast).
Physical Description
Dimensions: 5.25 x 8.25 inches.
Page Count: 192 pages.
Other physical details: Individually numbered.
Binding
Binding: Hardbound 100pts, half-bound in Genuine Matte Black Leather & Basalt Rock heavily textured book-cloth. Silver foil blocking on rounded spine, and Blind Deboss pattern on the Black Leather / Black Metallic Foil Rock material portion of the cover. Hand-custom-made Marbled Endpapers by artisan Nancy French. Red coloured Headbands & Silk Ribbon.
Paper: Printed on Fedrigoni Freelife Kendo White 150gsm paper.
Typography: Fine typography.
Content Note
Accompanying material: Comes with a signed carton-plate insert glued on the interior. Diagonally-Cut Slipcase bound in Smooth Black Bonded Leather with Red Interior and Red Metallic Foil stamping on the two halves' cover side, as well as on its "front-spine".
