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When
he
was
a
boy
,
eight
of
Dad
’
s
Irish
Catholic
aunts
tried
to
force
Catholicism
on
him
,
but
he
resisted
.
Instead
,
this
became
the
genesis
of
the
Bene
Gesserit
Sisterhood
.
This
fictional
organization
would
claim
it
did
not
believe
in
organized
religion
,
but
the
sisters
were
spiritual
nonetheless
.
Both
my
father
and
mother
were
like
that
as
well
.
During
the
1950s
,
Frank
Herbert
was
a
political
speechwriter
and
publicity
writer
for
U
.
S
.
senatorial
and
congressional
candidates
.
In
that
decade
,
he
also
journeyed
twice
to
Mexico
with
his
family
,
where
he
studied
desert
conditions
and
crop
cycles
,
and
was
subjected
unwittingly
to
the
effects
of
a
hallucinogenic
drug
.
All
of
those
experiences
,
and
a
great
deal
from
his
childhood
,
found
their
way
onto
the
pages
of
Dune
.
The
novel
became
as
complex
and
multilayered
as
Frank
Herbert
himself
.
As
I
said
in
Dreamer
of
Dune
,
the
characters
in
Dune
fit
mythological
archetypes
.
Paul
is
the
hero
prince
on
a
quest
who
weds
the
daughter
of
a
“
king
”
(
he
marries
Princess
Irulan
,
whose
father
is
the
Emperor
Shaddam
Corrino
IV
)
.
Reverend
Mother
Gaius
Helen
Mohiam
is
a
witch
mother
archetype
,
while
Paul
’
s
sister
Alia
is
a
virgin
witch
,
and
Pardot
Kynes
is
the
wise
old
man
of
Dune
mythology
.
Beast
Rabban
Harkonnen
,
though
evil
and
aggressive
,
is
essentially
a
fool
.
For
the
names
of
heroes
,
Frank
Herbert
selected
from
Greek
mythology
and
other
mythological
bases
.
The
Greek
House
Atreus
,
upon
which
House
Atreides
in
Dune
was
based
,
was
the
ill
-
fated
family
of
kings
Menelaus
and
Agamemnon
.
A
heroic
family
,
it
was
beset
by
tragic
flaws
and
burdened
with
a
curse
pronounced
against
it
by
Thyestes
.
This
foreshadows
the
troubles
Frank
Herbert
had
in
mind
for
the
Atreides
family
.
The
evil
Harkonnens
of
Dune
are
related
to
the
Atreides
by
blood
,
so
when
they
assassinate
Paul
’
s
father
Duke
Leto
,
it
is
kinsmen
against
kinsmen
,
similar
to
what
occurred
in
the
household
of
Agamemnon
when
he
was
murdered
by
his
wife
Clytemnestra
.
Dune
is
a
modern
-
day
conglomeration
of
familiar
myths
,
a
tale
in
which
great
sandworms
guard
a
precious
treasure
of
melange
,
the
geriatric
spice
that
represents
,
among
other
things
,
the
finite
resource
of
oil
.
The
planet
Arrakis
features
immense
,
ferocious
worms
that
are
like
dragons
of
lore
,
with
“
great
teeth
”
and
a
“
bellows
breath
of
cinnamon
.
”
This
resembles
the
myth
described
by
an
unknown
English
poet
in
Beowulf
,
the
compelling
tale
of
a
fearsome
fire
dragon
who
guarded
a
great
treasure
hoard
in
a
lair
under
cliffs
,
at
the
edge
of
the
sea
.
