A tyrant, the tyranny of evil humans, not just evil men/males. A shepard might seem to be a good natured
humanitarian on the surface, doing charitable things for people, integrating people of all walks of life,
feeding the hungry, and so on, but the shepard will always think of himself as more powerful and closer to god than the sheep, which is why the shepard thinks of himself/herself as leading the sheep/herd of people from behind, walking behind them with a cane (it's
interesting how cane and the biblical name Cain sound the same, though they are spelled differently).
The girl thought of herself as
the shepard, and of others as the sheep, looking to her for guidance and
preaching, and never questionig her
authority or what she actually practiced herself.