shepherdship
nounEtymology From shepherd + -ship.
1
The dignity or office of a shepherd.
- Enki tries to calm Inanna, and he recites a litany of the spheres of influences she has been given: the staff of shepherdship, onslaughts and battles, the twisting of the thread.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 165: