Blunted my sharp desire on the hundredth day That I was robed m drying blood, As peoples planets stars became my food (P 70) Our last example, also from Rozalen of the form coming to be called "The Legion Lament' has a known author His name was Kamal Salah, of whom little is known beyond his birth in Sieteh Gara Kulon, his service in the Refuge campaign, and his death there of dysentery YA SULH, LA TIHARRAM-NIIJMAL-AK (0 PEACE, DO NOT DEPRIVE ME OP YOUR FAVOR) Trees ring me on every side, Taller than the Simsara rock- Once I saw the falcon cross the sun, Once I saw clouds walk across Ihe dunes, Once I saw the distant mountains hang Above the desert sand- But bete I see only eyes shining in the night In the challenge of my youth I put my back against the wall And the friendly sietch was a shield behind me, Once I had a front, two sides, a back- But now I am all back, and the knives Strike always from behind (p 163) The poetry of the Fremea legions drew on. their native traditions and native forms of expression, but the violence of the Jihad threw those traditions and forms into sharp relief, and gave aft extra charge of power and immediacy to those who used them to soften their grief, their longing, even their despair WEM Further references IMPERIAL POETRY 10000-10400 Troge Puuradnzh The Fremen Common Soldier m the Last Jihad Lib Conf Temp Ser 10 Mustava Rozalen ed Laments of the Lost (10207) tr Novad Aliad (SaJusa Secundus Morgan and Sharak) Princess Irulaii Atreides Comno ed The. Dunebuk Rakis Ref Cat 72331 FREMEN SCULPTURE The eyes of Muad Dib Few historical records on Arrakis sur vived the Starvation and the Scattering, but if they concerned the city of Arrakeen, and if they discussed religious matters, they were likely to have made reference to "The Eyes of Muad'Dib' though something that could be seen by every resident of the city every day, "The Eyes* were never described Now with the discovery of the Rakis Hoard, this minor puzzle has been solved and its solution provides a curious sidelight into the mores and thinking of the Fremen of the eleventh millennium In 10196, as is well known, Paul Atreides used his family atomics to breach the Shield Wall, about 1500 meters high at that point, south of Arrakeen Through the gap moved his forces to destroy the surprised Sardaukar After Paul assumed the throne, the gap remained as a visible sign of his conquest, and became a place honored by the Fremen In 10211, two years after Paul went into the desert, a delegation from the city of Arrakeen approached Ihe regent Aha with a proposal to create a monument to Muad'Dib at the west end of the gap They pointed out that the crumbled edge of the wes>t wall bore a rough likeness of a human face, playing both with and against powerful religious feelings, the delegation interpreted the likeness as a sign from Shai-Hulud that on that spot should be carved a gigantic likeness of Paul, looking out over the bled Anxious to secure her power base, Aha agreed to the plan, and allocated resources sufficient to begin work on the form of a hooded face rising 400 meters from the chin to the top of the head Work was to proceed through a modified use of the wind-etching technique-the first attempt to wind-etch on such a monumental scale, but a technique in keeping with Fremen tradition Areas to be protected were to be FREMEN SCULPTURE 2K FREMEN SCULPTURE covered with sheets of plasteel, thus allowing the sandstorms from 4he desert side of the wall to grind away the exposed areas It was estimated that the project would take sixty years to complete, after which the whole sculpture would be coated with a protective surfacing untd such time (perhaps three or four hundred yeaii) as climatic changes had reduced sandstorms to die extent that protection was no longer needed The work became a source of discord as soon as the plan was announced because many of the desert Fremen held religious scruples against the representation of the human form in general and against a dcpic-Oon of the Messiah in particular Nevertheless, work began and by 10218, high up on the west wall of the gap, there reared the gigantic form of a hood above two heavily lidded eyes (construction had proceeded from the top down, on scaffolding lowered from the nm of the wall) By this time sentiment against the project was ho vocal that Aha confronting mounting political problems or dered work to be set aside till some quieter period That calmer time never came however and Leto II replaced Aha in the next year Work was then permanently halted on the project, and only The Eyes of Muad Dib remained to stare sightlessly into the desert into which their original had wandered * The Eyes of Muad Dib remained one of the supreme attractions of Arrakis until Leto II destroyed the sculpture when the gap was widened and deepened to permit pas sage of the Idaho River WE M Further references FRFMEN SCULPTURE WIND-ETCHIN Gwaitl Iivz-Gwiltan Atre dean Sculpture Appendix (Paseo Institute of Galacto Fremen Culture) FREMEN SCULPTURE FREMEN WATER CUSTOMS FREMEN SCULPTURE: WIND-ETCHING.