ind him with a mist1* 2 Canst thou lasso him by the horns or wilt thou rather harpoon him' 3 Will he crawl before thee in supplication'' Will he speak soft words unto thee9 4 Will he let thee ride upon his back wilt thou take him for thy bearer for ever7 5 Wilt thou play with him as with a sandtrout, or wilt thou present thy maidens to him9 6 Shall he join with you in orgy, or wilt thou confine him m a cistern'' 7 Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons9 Or set thy hooks behind his head7 8 Dance towards him on the drum sand, to make him thy partner 9 Behold, the hope of the out lander is in vain Shall not one lose water even at the sight ot bun' 10 None is so fierce that dare stir him up, who shall wave a rag before his face9 11 Who else hath inspired me that I should repay him9 Because of him I am the greatest under all the heavens SHAI-HULUD 457 12 I will not conceal bis length, nor his power, nor his great beauty 13 Who can discover his buried treasures'' All are hidden in the dust together 14 Who dare enter the doors of his face'' His teeth are terrible round about 15 His rings are his pnde, shut up together as with a close seal 16 One is so near to another that no dust can come between them 17 His scales are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered 18 By hts sneezings a light doth shine, from his belly comes the fire of God 19 Out of his mouth goeth cinnamon breath, to the blasting of thy nostrils 20 A burning lamp glows within his mouth, sparks of crystal leap about it 21 Fire burns in his passage, and a furnace flares out from his tail 22 He moveth his tail like a whirlwind, sorrow is swallowed up m the vortex of his joy 23 Each nng segment has a life of its own, his rings are firm in themselves, they cannot be moved 24 Let him not roll upon thee, thou shall be ground as the grain on the nether millstone 25 When he nseth up himself, the mighty are afraid, his speed squeezeth bakka from diem 26 The sword of him that stnketh at him wdl turn aside the knife, the slip tip, nor the kindjal 27 He esteemed) the shields as thumpers, yea, the pseudo-shields as piumc flies 28 The lasgun cannot make him fee, he turaeth the stunners into stubble 29 The wind that eateth flesh cannot harm him, he laugheth in tine conohs storm 30 Sharp mountains roe above torn, he spreadeth rivers of sand about him 31 He maketh the sandpaa to boil like a pot, his hissing ftiJeth the morning 32 He maketh path through the deep desert, his passage eleanseth the world 33 Upon Dune there is not hts hke, for he maketh the Water of Life 34 He is the chief of the ways of God, he is Shai-hulud, the Old Father Eternity NOTE The transcript of the "Hymn to Shai Humd" leaves unexplained the common and nigh universal (if seldom expressed) belief mat worship of Shai-Hulud was the same as worshipping Shattan Were the Fremen completely blind to the true nature of their religion' Such, it seems, was actually the case, although mere is good reason to believe that when the Fremen first established themselves on Arrakis thev regarded the giant sandworm in much the same light as did everyone else, as an unmitigated evil force of nature that rendered large tracts of the planet uninhabitable The name itself, Shai Hulud, is believed by its derivation to prove these evil associations For although an accepted derivation is from the Old Fremen shaikh at Hud old grandfather Hud' (cf in O C Bible, Sura VII) it has also been proposed that the denvatton rather is from Shai(tan) hulul "devil m transmigration' or, "Shaitan incarnate ' Hulul is a Fremen term used m the sietch orgy ceremony to signal the mingling of human with divine spirit supposed to occur after drinking the Water of Life It ih believed lo go back to a Sunsufi idea as expressed in 57 Kalima in the O C Bible, which says Thy Spirit is mingled m my spirit even as wine is mingled in pure water When anything touches Thee, it touches me Lo, m every case Thou art I " (For more on this point, see the Azhar Book I In the early days of Muad'Dib's association with the Fremen the characteristic Fremen attitude of rev erence toward the sandworm maj be gauged by Stllgar, whose worshipful dependence on Shai Hulud is clear and habitual The city attitude on Arrakis was more fearfully superstitious and the association of the sandworm with Shaitan in the Dune Tarot was typical of out freyn belief MT Further references ORANGE CATHOLIC BIBLE Pyer Bmzvair, ed , Summa of Ancient Belief and Practice (Bolchef Collegium Tamo) SHIGAWIRE.