A great culture-creating event “The Carpathian Sheep Graze — Transhumance
2013”, organized with due respect for pastoral tradition, and “Lamb Meat
Feast” in Ustroń are examples of restitution and popularization of the cultural heritage
of sheep farming and pastoral symbolics. Both events appeal to very deep layers
of tradition, which raise reflection on culture-creating aspects of sheep farming (one
of the oldest forms of agricultural economy), on the signs of pastoral customs and
symbolics, and on culinary traditions. Pastoral elements still seem to be present in
modern culture, especially in the religious symbolic imagination. However, most frequently
there is no direct presence of sheep and shepherds, which might make them
only a “relic” of the past
