uld satisfy his sexual need, so also memories of gluttonous banquets stretching back in time for unity or more centimes should satisfy his physical self Koye also was the first to articulate the incredible contradictions between Leto's famed Golden Path and the breeding program he had taken over from die Bcne Gessent The two seem at opposite ends of the scale you cannot plan to breed humanity into some higher type and at the same time give humanity the essential freedom which is supposedly at the heart of the Golden Path Koye even argued, with some accuracy, that the Bene Gessent were far more successful with their ages long breeding program than Leto was with his The Sisterhood, we now recognize, had twice nearly produced the Kwisatz Haderach according to all indications Jehanne Butler s aborted baby, Sarah Butler, would have produced the Kwisatz Haderach, but, tragically, her death dela>ed his arrival until Paul Atreides Leto s father, was bom How then can we explain the eccentricities, the foibles, the genuine accomplishments of the famous/infamous God Emperor1* Because he was worm, he no longer seems human Because he was human we tend to forget he was worm However, we must never forget that he was also, in the grand mythic sense of a long-abused word, King He ruled over his desert kingdom for nearly four millennia, attempting to birth a civilization, a people, and a culture that did not need to fear itself One persistent myth, perhaps dozens of centimes old from legendary Terra, may help explain him It is the myth of the Fisher King who ruled over a Waste Land, a land so desolate that crops did not grow, humans did not reproduce, and despair was endemic Wounded in the genitals, the Fisher King s kingdom was stenle, with both ruler and subjects awaiting a Redeemer, a pure Knight who would heal the King and return fertility to the land Leto Atreides II was that Fisher King His Arrakeen desert made any historic or mythic Waste Land seem fertile by comparison Yet his vision of Arrakis was inevitably limited, perhaps because of his youth perhaps because of incarnate nature, perhaps because of his very perversity, perhaps because of his essential lack of humanity as evidenced by his lack of genital activitv If his \ision for his home planet was limited, so was it also for the Impenum Because he fancied himself as the Redeemer of his planet and the Impenum, he attempted to become the Knight of particular purity who would heal himself He failed in one sense He triumphed in another He was the once and future King His vision for hss planet and his kingdom failed because, as Leto himself was more than once forced to admit, he was not God in any ulumate sense Yet he succeeded because he died, and ATREIDES LETO II ATREIDES LETO U" Redeemers must die for their people When he died, his limited vision of the Golden Path also died Thus after the Starvation and the Scattering, we are now free-free from Leto, free from the Golden Path, and free from fee threat of ourselves Who knows what waits beyond the stars'' WM ATREIDES.