Interesting perspective from these ancient stories and the donning of life-preserving garments. I’ve been thinking about Dune since I saw it and just wrote a whole thing on it myself. To me it seems like Herbert isn’t so much trying to overthrow heroic archetypes as prove them through a cautionary example. Paul descends and become the villain, basically, trying to use evil power for good, and only accomplishing evil.
I wish I could send this post to everyone involved in every Bible translation that decided on the policy of transliterating Hebrew plurals instead of replacing the -im with -s. I know I should probably just get over this, but nephilim is plural and every time I see someone use it as a singular, I die slightly inside, and get one step closer to doing it myself by accident 😅
I was going to say that I think he’s closer to an SRA/occult-bred pawn, but after reading what I can access I think we’re saying the same thing. After all, nephalim blood is most likely what they’re breeding for. So, instead of splitting hairs I guess I agree with you. 🥰 Still love the book though. It’s masterfully written.
Interesting perspective from these ancient stories and the donning of life-preserving garments. I’ve been thinking about Dune since I saw it and just wrote a whole thing on it myself. To me it seems like Herbert isn’t so much trying to overthrow heroic archetypes as prove them through a cautionary example. Paul descends and become the villain, basically, trying to use evil power for good, and only accomplishing evil.
No pressure of course but I do invite you to read. I’m looking for lots of other people’s thoughts because I’m still making sense of the story. https://open.substack.com/pub/ericfalden/p/dune-2-made-me-like-dune-less?r=3ecd72&utm_medium=ios
I wish I could send this post to everyone involved in every Bible translation that decided on the policy of transliterating Hebrew plurals instead of replacing the -im with -s. I know I should probably just get over this, but nephilim is plural and every time I see someone use it as a singular, I die slightly inside, and get one step closer to doing it myself by accident 😅
I was going to say that I think he’s closer to an SRA/occult-bred pawn, but after reading what I can access I think we’re saying the same thing. After all, nephalim blood is most likely what they’re breeding for. So, instead of splitting hairs I guess I agree with you. 🥰 Still love the book though. It’s masterfully written.