Hwen Urtorn) These examples can do little more than suggest the riches that the Oral History contains Its value is measureless in more than one way, for it provides not only an independent source of historical information, but also reveals the mind of the folk, sharing with us their understanding of their culture, and displaying their hopes and fears These last insights are exemplified in "How Muad'Dib Got His Name" [see entry] (a firemen folktale3 that weaves together wholly imaginary incidents from the wool of fact Paul Atreides' adaptation to the desert and Bremen ways and how the invention of the thumper is attracted to the figure of Paul), his coming to terms with his supernormal powers (as expressed in the magic of the dunn), and above all his conquest of himself In the long run, it matters little which side Thufir Hawat was on, what is more important is the way that people structured and ordered the flux of their daily lives and made sense of the swirl of great events In this and other folktales m ballads, in even the humblest games, we have that record WE M NOTES 'See Lors Karden, Truth and Fancy in the Oral History (Yorba Rose) for an introduction to the senes Studies in Atreidean History 2Zheraulaz Kiit ed Ballads from the Border Stars Studies m Atreidean History 263 (Paseo Institute of Galacto Fremen Culture) pp 156 7 3"How Muad Dih Got His Vame' is from Ibarhim alYazizhi Fremen Folktales from Onn SAH 313 ORANGE CATHOLIC BIBLE. THE FUNDAMENTAL SCRIPTURE OF THE IMPERI- UM [The following essay has been attributed to Paul Muad'Dib and it is one of the few complete works by this historical figure to have been found m the Rakis Hoard Paul was known for his profound interest m the Orange Catholic Rible and its tenets ployed an important role in his legendary life -Ed ] Mankind's movement through deep space placed a unique stamp on religion during the one hundred and ten centimes that preceded the Butlenan Jihad Early space travel, widespread though it was proceeded in a fashion largely unregulated slow and uncertain Before the Guild monopoly, it was accom phshed by a hodgepodge of methods* with successive waves of general expansion and cross-migrations of large populations Space travel was not lightly undertaken a once-m-a-lifetime experience was quite enough for most people who were dnven at first only by necessity to commit themselves to the dark \oid that was space From the beginning of the travels, space gave a different flavor and sense to ideas of Creation Genesis was a dark mystery The difference is seen even m the highest religious achievements of the period All through religion, the feeling of the sacred was touched by anarchy from the outer dark As one of our more poetic, though anonymous, histon ans expressed it "It was as though Jupiter in all his descendant forms retreated into the material darkness to be superseded by a female immanence filled with ambiguity and with a face of many terrors ' The ancient formulae intertwined tangled ORANGE CATHOLIC BIBLE 405 ORANGE CATHOLIC BIBLE together as they became fined to the needs of new conquests and new heraldic symbols It was a time of struggle between beast-demons on the one side and the old prayers and invocations on the other with no clear decision, but there were innumerable adaptations, some more grotesque than others The evolutionary history of religions in space is vast During the early period of space travel, it was said that Genesis 1 28 was reinterpreted, permitting God to say.