sunm Wanderers Their Ceremony assimilated the lore of the Bene Gessent Missionana Pro tectiva and was functional long before the melange was exploited by House Harkoimen and the Combine Honnete Ober Advancer Mercantiles (CHOAM) The Fremen used the Ceremony to produce their own Reverend Mothers and were thus provided with the ancestoral leadership necessary to endure even the ravages of Harkonnen rule Of almost equa! importance, the Ceremony was used to produce sietch tau orgies essential psychological outlets for the oppressed Fremen sources of sociological unity and occasions for the random couplings that produced the Fremen hybnd vigor The final impact of the sietch tau orgies and the Ceremony was that they reduced the frustration of the span nungsbogen that was an unavoidable part of Pardot Kynes s reshaping of Arrakis s ecology When the Lady Jessica and Paul Atreides first encountered the Ceremony after their flight from the treacherous overthrow of House Atreides by combined Harkonnen/Sardaukar legions, the Ceremony had fully evolved from its most immediate Maometh Sdan on gin and was ready for mythic exploitation by the Atreides Central to the Fremen Ceremo ny of the Seed was the drowning of a stunted sandworm to produce the Water of Life CEREMONY OF THE SEED 153 This deadly poison was the exhalation of the drowning ' little maker'' A Reverend Moth er changed the water into a harmless and powerful awareness-expanding aphrodisiac by altering its molecular structure through sub atomic p&ythokmeuc manipulation Each sietch kept a number of little makers imprisoned in small caches, restricting their growth to nine meters for the Ceremony During the mih tary triumphs of Paul Muad'Dib's Bjday-kin, sietches were hard pressed to produce the numbers of little makers that were demanded Much later, during the reign of the God Emperor Leto II, the Ceremony of the Seed and its tail content were sustained despite the absence of the little makers, in the Siaynoq sharing among the God Emperor the eternal ghola Duncan Idaho, and the Fish Speakers Within the context of the festoration of the House Atreides after its fall at Arrakeen on Rakis the most important moment in the Ceremony's long history was the initiation of the pregnant Lady Jessica into the league of Fremen Reverend Mothers Relying on The Dunebuk the compendium of Piemen folkways, we can assume that Lady Jessica's induction into the Sayyadma and ascension to Reverend Mother status was conducted in the usual manner In this case the Ceremony was orchestrated by the Reverend Mother Ramallo whose career was undistmguishedly diligent with the exception of this one moment She was uadoubtably assisted in the menial portions of the Ceremony by a Sayyadma acolyte Partial infermatioa indicates that Chant (Liet-Kynes Atreides) filled this position in Lady Jessica s Ceremony The acolyte would serve the Water of Life, forceably if necessary, and recite the htany 'Here ts the Water of Life, the