Ghanmia agreed with her Bene Gessent ancestresses that "motherhood' was preferable to "Motherhood' , to preserve her sense of personal identity she needed to control, even to diminish the Archetypal, viewing tt in safely per sonal terms For Jessica, however, Motherhood could not be evaded, rejected, distorted, or diminished, because for her the Great Mother was irresistibly attractive Her entire life was a quest for the Mother It was a long and arduous ordeal, requiring great personal growth, constant psychological balance, and unremitting courage, vigor, and determination She had both to become Mother and to be Mother in a time when neither had been done before and among a people to whom "Mother" meant "witch " Important though this quest was for Jessica, it was absolutely vital for Dune Jessica arrived on Arabs at precisely the moment when the fantasy of the subject-object gap threatened to devastate that planet with powerplay after powerplay Liet-Kynes and the piemen intuitively knew that there needed to be a more balanced, conscious relation ship between humans and nature and that the way to that relationship was understanding the life force that binds 'subjective' and ' objective" m a single interpenetrating continuum But these ecological visionaries lacked the Archetypal cxpenence to reach their goal It was left to Jessica to complete the quest and by so doing show others how they might meet Mother themselves First Jessica and later, through her School, more and more of her followers became initiates Each initiate underwent an excruciating alienation from his or her original mindset transformed his or her thinking by direct protracted awareness of the Great Mother, and labored to refashion every ele ment of Arrakeen culture m accord with Motherly views and values Jessica, the very first such initiate, sacrificed much more than her successors did She endured alienation from her Sisters, her children and grand children most of her Atreides associates, and all of Dune's common folk She refused to play 'mother" in the Bene Gessent way of frightening others into psychological childhood, but instead let people make up their own minds about the Archetypal reality she embodied, and so she sacrificed the satisfaction of knowing whether her transformation had really benefited anyone but herself Jessica's sacrifices were genuine and (unlike Leto ITs) net-essary for as she well knew Archetypal Motherhood was bound to con found the very thought that most languished for lack of it There is, however, a deep and horrible irony in the dismal fact that while Jessica was living Archetypal Quest, Initiation, and Sacrificial heroism (the major masculine Archetypes) and, simultaneously, incarnating the tour ma]or feminine Archetypes as well, her contemporaries mostly reviled or ignored her and focused their hopeful attention on the grand but misguided careers of her chil dren and grandchildren Even Dune's histon ans were shockingly slow to recognize that the real Dune story is Jessica's J H Farther references ATRBIDES GHANIMA, ATREIDES DUKE LETO ATREIDES LETO II ATREIDES PAUL MUAD DIB MOHIAM R M GAius HELEN Hatq al Ada The Mother of God tr Harq al Lutag Atretdes (Grumman.