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  2. Shepherd - Wikipedia

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    Shepherds travelling in Chambal, India Shepherd with grazing sheep in Făgăraș Mountains, Romania. A shepherd is a person who tends, herds, feeds, or guards flocks of sheep. Shepherding is one of the world's oldest occupations; it exists in many parts of the globe, and it is an important part of pastoralist animal husbandry.

  3. Herder - Wikipedia

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    A shepherd is a person who tends, herds, feeds, or guards flocks of sheep. Shepherding is one of the world's oldest occupations; it exists in many parts of the globe, and it is an important part of pastoralist animal husbandry. Because the occupation is so widespread, many religions and cultures have symbolic or metaphorical references to ...

  4. Glossary of sheep husbandry - Wikipedia

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    Shepherd – a stockperson or farmer who looks after sheep while they are in the pasture. Shepherding – the act of shepherding sheep, or sheep husbandry more generally. Shornie – a freshly shorn sheep. [8] Shepherd's crook – a staff with a hook at one end, used to catch sheep by the neck or leg (depending on type). SIL – Scanned In Lamb

  5. Shepherd (name) - Wikipedia

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    Shepherd is a surname, cognate of the English word "Shepherd". Several common spelling variations exist, including Shepperd, Shephard, Shepard, and Sheppard.

  6. Endymion (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    There is confusion over Endymion's identity, as some sources suppose that he was, or was related to, the prince of Elis, and others suggest he was a shepherd from Caria. There is also a later suggestion that he was an astronomer: Pliny the Elder [ 3 ] mentions Endymion as the first human to observe the movements of the moon, which (according to ...

  7. Mythopoetic men's movement - Wikipedia

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    The term mythopoetic was coined by professor Shepherd Bliss [1] in preference to New Age men's movement [2] (though "mythopoeia" was coined by J.R.R. Tolkien in the 1930s, and has a different meaning).

  8. Proteus - Wikipedia

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    Proteus as a cultural reference has been used in various contexts with different nuances according to each of the aspects of the myth: a shepherd of sea-creatures, a prophet who does not reveal their knowledge, a shape-changing god, the power to transform matter, or the primary matter that can become different materials.

  9. Swineherd - Wikipedia

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    In the New Testament are mentioned shepherd of pigs, mentioned in the Pig (Gadarene) the story shows Jesus exorcising a demon or demons from a man and a flock of pigs, [1] as well as in the parable of the Prodigal Son in a son who wastes his father's fortune and is forced to work as a Swineherd.