![]() Then the most sacred of all horses, the embodiment of Horse Goddess herself, claims Sparrow for her servant, and sends her on a journey that will change Sparrow and her people forever. ![]() ![]() Sparrow sees visions and dreams dreams - and her brother the shaman takes them from her and presents them as his own. They may not ever ride the horses that are the life and soul of the tribe, or even approach them, for fear of angering the gods.īut Sparrow knows another story, a story of the woman who first rode a horse, and her brother who took both the horse and the glory away from her. /rebates/2fThe-Shepherd-Kings-Judith-Tarr2fbook2f6053512&. Sparrow is a shaman's daughter in a tribe that forbids women to be kings, to be shamans, to be anything but silent and tractable servants to the all-powerful men. But he had not yet granted to men the greatest gift of all: the gift of riding on his back, and racing the wind. ![]() In the grandfathers' time, when few yet living had been born, the People worshipped the horse, and served him, and took the gifts that he gave them: his meat, his hide, the milk of his mares. National bestselling author Judith Tarr returns to the world of her critically-acclaimed Devil’s Bargain as the sorceress Sioned and her half-brother King Richard once again face the Old Man of the Mountain, an evil sorcerer determined to destroy them. ![]()
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