(10208 10516) The twin sister of Leto II, remembered as "Our Lady and Mother Ghanima' From the materials found at Dar-es-Balat, we now have proof that Ghanima is more than a legend, having lived during three hundred years of her brother's Impenum Whde officially his wife, records and memoirs show that she was his wife m name only Her primary function m Leto s empire was to begin a breeding program which united Houses chosen by Leto Atreides Corrmo Harkonnen Fennng arid Liet Kynes Houses chosen for their genetic characteristics There has always been some question about who fathered this new family line (the legendary descriptions of the God Emperor give no indication that he was capable of breeding and the folk tales of his sexual prowess with descriptions of his sexual apparatus, arc difficult to believe-a special tooth indeed) The newly discovered materials show that although Ghanima was wed to Leto she was mated to Farad'n Corrmo (Harq al Ada) and bore ten children Of the many documents dealing with Ghanima, The Book of Ghanima re\edls. the most intimate record of her dailv life Recent linguistic and philological analyses indicate that Volume One of the memoirs is m Ghanima1 s voice She tells of her childhood in Sietch Tabr with Naib Stilgar and Harah who served as her surrogate parents During this dme she and Leto shared both their external and internal environments, often hv mg not only as themselves but as extensions ATREIDES, GHANIMA 52 ATREroES GHANIMA of their real parents, Muad'Dib (Paul Atreides) and Chain Liet-Kynes, a "possession" game they eventually found difficult to control It was during these possessions that Ghanima established the bond with her mother that would become !*o important to her welfare Though the children were labeled "abominations" by the Bene Gessent Sisterhood, and though Ghanima was fearful of possession by one of the memory lives within her consciousness, she retained mastery of her own personality all her life In her report to the Sisterhood, Lady Jessica said that this control was established by Ghanima through "a state of constant hypnotic suppression which was induced under stress and which can be manipulated at will by Ghanima through die intercession of her benign ancestor, her mother, who leads the mohalata which protects Ghanima' In her later life, Ghanima worked actively with her inner voices