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PERIPA
Timeless Craft, Timeless Paper Peripa is the new addition to the Living Tree Paper Company’s collection of products. It is tree-free and is made through an elaborate process entirely from sheep’s wool. It is a stain-resistant paper, which doesn’t yellow. peripa-, Greek root of the word peripatetic, which means meandering, itinerant, much like a herd of sheep and its shepherd.
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ARISTAEUS/ARISTAIOS
“Ever Close Follower of the Flocks� Son of Appolo, he is the Greek god of bee-keeping, hunting, and most importantly sheep and shepherds. He pionneered the modern methods of domesticizing animals and husbandry.
“Aristaios, when he had grown up, the divine Mousai found him a bride, taught him the arts of healing and prophecy, and made him the shepherd of all their flocks in the cornlands of Haimonia�
MOUNT OTHRYS
“When the sheep strayed in strings with wandering hoof, lagging behind on ways they could not find or trust, to the flowery pasture, he joined them on one path sending a goat ahead to lead the concerted march.�
“When he was grown, he sailed from Libya to Boeotia, where he was inducted into further mysteries in the cave of Chiron the centaur.�
THE VALE OF TEMPE
“From the wellwooded pasture of the shady forest-slopes he brought the herdsmen to meadows and ealings, and taught them to feed their flocks from sunrise to eventide.�
“There are sheep in it wandering and grazing unguarded, and their fleeces sprout with the glory of pure gold,in the valley of the Sacred River Apidanos.�
ETESIAN WIND
Still to this day the etesian winds from Zeus herald the sacrifice of Aristaios, and cool the land when the ripening vine grows in mottled clusters.