and the way in which he and his sister bad learned to assert command over their "internal multitudes " He made one of the earliest known references to his secret journal!*, explaining their function as a record for his posterity, millennia later He also predicted-accurately-both his own evolution from living god to dead tyrant to living myth, and Sister Cheaoeh's death prior to her reaching Reverend Mother status In a final bit of irony, the God Emperor suggested to Sister Chenoeh that her failure to become a Reverend Mother should not trouble her, because her status as an 'integral part of his myth would be far greater Despite the bitter message contained in those words, the Sister felt a peculiar sense of friendship between herself and the Lord Leto and was not frightened by the prophecy Nur, in obedience to his command did she inform the Sisterhood of all that had passed between them She carefully tran scribed their dialogue and mixed the record of it in among her personal papers before returning to the Wallach IX school for debriefing, providing her superiors with only the public information Her report was very well received Six years later she was recommended for initiation as a Reverend Mother Even this news, which she could interpret only as a death sentence, could not provoke Sister Chenoeh to disobey Following a day of meditation, and in the presence of all the Reverend Mothers of her Chapter House, Sister Chenoeh was given a drink containing a massive dose of melange The initiation went poorly from the beginning instead of achieving the sense of heightened awareness of self that the spice dose was intended to produce, Sister Chenoeh lost consciousness and slipped almost immediately into a deep coma All efforts by her companions to re vive her were useless Her death six hours after her mgestion uf the drug, was attributed to 'melange incompatibility, a reaction with which the Bene Gessent were all too familiar Her pm ate report was found when a group of her Sisters cleared her belongings from her quarters Its contents were made known at once to the B G hierarchy Sister Chenoeh was forgotten, save by the Sisterhood, for almost nine hundred years hi 14715, howe\er wilh the establishment of the Church of the Divided God, the Lord Leto's prediction of her place in his myth was proven true Holy Sister Qumtmius Violet Chenoeh, as she was now known, was seen as an enlightened visionary, a confi dante of God Shnnes and churches were erected in her honor Prayers to the Blessed Sister were popular among the devout Among those familiar with antique religions, CHEOPS 159 CHEOPS Sister Chenoeh was given another title She wasAuliya God s handmaiden in the Temunni Wanderers' liturgy It was widely believed that she had special influence over the Divided God and could intercede with him on behalf of her petitioners Not even the Reformation some four centuries later sweeping as it was could entirely dissolve the Cult of Sister Chenoeh Let the Church authorities lecture as they would con cermng the Sister's mortal status, the faithful would listen, nod where necessary, and return to then: devotions as if nothing had been said Her churches were torn down or rededicated The Bene Gessent permitted Church elders access to their records to provide confirmation that this "Holy" member of their Order had worked no wonders, performed no miracles (By this time, the Sisterhood was as worried by the attention their charismatic member had-drawn to herself, and them, as was the Church } Still the Call persisted It can be argued that the discovery of the God Emperor's Journals has given a measure of justification for this tenacity While Sister Chenoeh saw herself as no more than a simple oral recorder, however talented, and a loyal Bene Gessent above all, mentions of her in the Journals indicate that the Lord Leto saw her as something more A few lines from one of the last entries, believed to have been made only days before the God Emperor s death, conveys mat vision "This silence from the Bene Gessent puzzles me They must certainly have found Sister Chenoeh s records by this time, and yet they say nothing, ask nothing, demand nothing I remember how quickly Luyseyal and Anteac came before me to claim their reward after informing my Fish Speakers of the Tleilaxu plot and marvel at the Sisterhood's present shyness "For that one Sister, I would be willing to confer greater treasures on them than they dare to dream She has begun the woric my journals will finish " C T Further references.