Not exact matches
Oh gee, once upon a time, an uneducated Jewish
goatherd decided that he needed to make up a story to explain away all
of man's problems.
«The merest accident
of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice
of Om, and who gave Om his view
of humans, was a shepherd and not a
goatherd.
It may be difficult to spot the tents and
goatherds among the newsreaders and Coronation Street cast members, but this is a 21st - century parable
of the story
of Abraham.
«god» was so responsible in making that «provision» for being «saved» that «he» waited tens
of thousands
of years after modern man arrived on this planet (dooming countless generations to «hell» because they didn't have a chance), and then on top
of that «he» implemented «his» «provision» in the middle
of a freakin» desert in a time when there was no Internet and at a time when those ignorant
goatherding people thought the world was flat (thereby dooming countless more generations
of people to «hell» because there was no way, for example, to even get the message to what would become the Americas 15 centuries later).
Many
of the central characters
of fantasy are country people, like those in Evangeline Walton's Mabinogion tales and other Welsh fantasies, The wizard Ged
of Le Gum's Earthsea Trilogy is the son
of a bronzesmith on a rustic island and is referred to as «
goatherd.»
In the Ethiopian highlands, where the legend
of Kaldi, the
goatherd, originated, coffee trees grow today as they have for centuries.
I had never seen a stage production
of «The Sound
of Music» before, and the [dis] placement
of songs cheesed me a little with the repetitive «My Favorite Things,» the too - soon «Do - Re-Mi,» and the puppet-less «The Lonely
Goatherd.»
Synopsis: An accident connects four groups
of people on three different continents: two young Moroccan
goatherds, a vacationing American couple (Brad Pitt, C...
Synopsis: An accident connects four groups
of people on three different continents: two young Moroccan
goatherds, a vacationing American couple (Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett), a deaf Japanese teen and her father, and a Mexican nanny who takes her young charges across a border without parental permission.