But though the Shilluk are mainly a pastoral people, they are not nomadic, but live in many settled villages.
To a pastoral people a bull is the most natural type of vigorous reproductive energy,(171) and as such is a fitting emblem of the sun.
But as the Sakalava are not, so far as I know, mainly or exclusively a pastoral people, this example of bull-worship does not strictly belong to the class illustrated in the text.
If these bulls were not originally embodiments of the corn-god Osiris, they may possibly be descendants of the sacred cattle worshipped by a pastoral people.
M232) An example of a sacrament of the Egyptian type is furnished by the Todas, a pastoral people of Southern India, who subsist largely upon the milk of their buffaloes.
When disease breaks out among the cattle of the Bahima, a pastoral people of Central Africa, the priest "collects herbs and other remedies to attract the disease from the cattle.
M146) Amongst the Dinkas, a pastoral people of the White Nile, each family possesses a sacred cow.
Thus amongst the Todas, a pastoral people of the Neilgherry Hills of Southern India, the dairy is a sanctuary, and the milkman who attends to it has been described as a god.
An example of a sacrament of the Egyptian type is furnished by the Todas, a pastoral people of Southern India, who subsist largely upon the milk of their buffaloes.
They are essentially a pastoral people, passionately devoted to the care of their numerous herds of oxen, though they also keep sheep and goats, and the women cultivate small quantities of millet and sesame.
It was, in fact, the agriculture of a pastoral people, with a large range of pasture land for their cattle, a small portion of which annually selected for tillage sufficed for their corn crops.
The Frisians were a pastoral people, and a hide for every so many oxen was as ready a mode of assessing the tribute as counting the plough teams would be in an agricultural district.
When hunting, war, and robbery ceased to supply them with the necessaries of life they naturally became a pastoral people, for the flocks and the pasture lands were already at hand.
When the country came into the possession of the United States marauding expeditions became much less frequent, and almost insensibly the tribe changed from a predatory to a pastoral people.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pastoral people" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
