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  Arrakis - Dune
The Reverend Mother is ushered in and the Sardaukar Officers leave her alone with the Emperor.
REVEREND MOTHER I hold at your neck the gom jabbar.
REVEREND MOTHER Perhaps you are the Kwisatz Haderach.
www.dunemessiah.com /script.shtml   (13694 words)

  
  Reverend Mother (Dune) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A Reverend Mother is both a Bene Gesserit title and a class or level associated with fictional characters appearing in the novel Dune and in other novels of the Dune series.
A Reverend Mother is generally a woman of the Bene Gesserit order who has completed her training.
The particular narcotic used by the lines of Reverend Mothers on Arrakis is contained in the Water of Life, the liquid exhalation of a sandworm produced at the moment of its death by drowning.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reverend_Mother_(Dune)   (364 words)

  
 SparkNotes: Dune: Book I
Dune begins on the planet Caladan, which is ruled by Duke Leto of the House of Atreides.
The reverend mother chides her, saying that now there is no daughter to wed a Harkonnen, the rival house of the Atreides, and “[seal] the breach.” Jessica and the reverend mother both know that the planet Arrakis is already lost and that the duke is as good as dead.
The reverend mother’s warnings concern Paul, who thinks she speaks “as though [his] father were dead.” Furthermore, Paul’s dream about the caves and the girl who calls him Usul also seems to be a premonition of Paul’s future and the novel’s future events.
www.sparknotes.com /lit/dune/section1.html   (1303 words)

  
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Kwisatz Mother: The Reverend Mother with the strongest tie to her Other Voices is known as the Kwisatz or Breeding Mother, and is directly in charge of the program to produce the Kwisatz Haderach.
Reverend Mothers are only able to recall within their own genetic ancestry because this form of genetic memory is linked to female recollection - one of the goals of the breeding program is to create the male who is able to look down these ancestral paths for both females and males.
This tutor may be a Sister or a Reverend Mother, depending on the wealth of the House and the duration of the proposed education plan.
www.dune3.net /handbooks/bene_gesserit.txt   (5205 words)

  
 The Sands of Time
Dune is therefore the story of an ancient priesthood, the creation of a Messiah, and his “awakening” through the use of hallucinogenic substances.
Dune came about from the possibility – the fear – that ecology might be the next banner for demagogues and would-be-heroes, for the power seekers and others ready to find an adrenaline high in the launching of a new crusade.
Dune, if anything, is a message for our time, whereby the mind is not appreciated for its true potentials and drugs are seen as having no educational value – instead, we offer a computer-generated world as a virtual reality, neglecting the superhuman abilities that we could perform within our own realm.
www.philipcoppens.com /dune.html   (2477 words)

  
 Cylon Alliance - The Dune Epic   (Site not responding. Last check: )
This fierce warrior was killed in the original Dune novel and cloned through a mystic process by those who sought to control Paul by promising to return his loved ones who had died in exchange for royal favors.
Dune's 5th book, Heretics of Dune, written in 1984, advanced another 1500 years after the last novel to describe Sheanna, a remarkable young woman who could control the monster Gods of Arrakis, the giant sandworms.
When Dune was printed, Arabs were generally seen as friendly towards the western world and their culture was exotic and intriguing.
www.cylon.org /classic/dune-intro-01.html   (2128 words)

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