ng and aiming his blind eyes toward the Temple and raising a hand (the left hand of evil, surely) to point at the high window where Aha was watching "One blasphemy remains'" he screamed "Blasphemy1 And the name of that blasphemy is Alia' ' These were The Preacher's last words and they condemned his sister, the virgin-harlot of Revelation XVII, to Leto's execution Both Paul and his son Leto were extremely skilled manipulators of what Leto termed the "prevailing mystique " Qoe way in which this is shown is in their use of left-hand and right-hand symbolism The Fremen, at ease only in extremes, were uncomfortable in the presence of ambivalence or ambiguity Deeds and thoughts were good or bad, they came either from the left hand of the damned or from the right hand of the blessed This association goes back to, or perhaps rattier is reflected in, Gospel XXXV, where the sheep are set on the nght hand of the King but the goats on the left hand Accordingly, when Paul Muad'Dib stood at the rack shrine enclosing his father's skull to quote word for word from ' Bomoko s Legacy," he set his nght hand on the shrine in order to show first that his father was one of tile blessed and second that the words he was about to say came from one of the blessed This gesture shows something of the respect with which he regarded the C E T Chairman responsible for the 0 C Bible However, when Paul and Leto had their famous confrontation in the desert Leto accused his father of not taking his vision far enough Your hands did good things and evil he said Leto himself ever sensitive to relative positions of threatening or supporting people m relation to himself, summed up the assassin Namn at Jacuratu when during the mterro gauon, Namn entered the cell and stopped half a pace to the left of Guniey Halleck "Ahhh, the left hand of the damned Leto said M T Further references ORANGE CATHOLIC BIBLE ATRE IDES PAUL Anon The Dune Gospels Rakis Ref Cat ] T2 Qizara Tafwid The Pillars of Wisdom (Salusa Secundus Morgan" and Sharak) Paul Muad Dib s deep study of the O C Bible and the Commentaries can be witnessed most fully in Princess Irulan s Collected Sayings of Muad Dib (Mukan Lothar) Muad Dib The Religious Issues Lib Conf Temp Se lies 133 and The Wisdom of Muad Dib Arratas Studies 52 (Grumman United Worlds) ORNrTHOPTER The basic method of airborne travel in the Impenum The common omithopter was a very late development m the history of atmospheric flight The first ormthopters-that is, vehicles that fly like birds rather than powered gliders or helicopters-were built by a team of scientists being held as political prisoners (as a result of the abortive Thinkers Rebellion of 7600 B G ) by Emperor Neweh m 7585 B G Their head was Jehane Gohtle, who was placed in charge of an understaffed, underfunded, and discouraged team of scientists and told to earn her team's continued well-being by inventing useful devices which would make a profit for the emperor The group discovered many previously un suspected uses for already existing artifacts, and they scoured Imperial Scientific Archives in a desperate search for inventions which had been discarded as unfit for a computerized society but which might be made economically feasible if one was clever enough One of the group s most fruitful rediscoveries was the ' Heart Scallop ' (Perpetuus oper culans) of the Foranms Triad The Heart Scallop, so named because of its continual, regular, and powerful muscular contraction expansion cycle, was a land mollusk, a soft-shelled bivalve which grew to weight upwards of three hundred pounds noted for the astounding strength of its single muscle The ORNITHOPTER 416 ORNITHOPTER Heart Scallop begins its life cycle as an airborne polyp, anchoring itself to a likely cliff-face or large tree after a short adolescence in the planet's jet stream.