#god emperor of dune

“She makes me recall the Butlerian Jihad in a poignant way. She is the antithesis of all that is mechanical and nonhuman.” Happy Early Valentine’s from the God Emperor

[ID: Illustration of Hwi Noree and Leto II from God Emperor of Dune. Hwi is on the left wearing a flowy backless gown and an updo, and Leto is on the right with his worm body and head surrounded by worm jaw shapes and teeth kind of like a wide collar. He is smiling and reaching forward as if to touch the smiling Hwi’s face. Around them is a decorative border made up of many organic elements; on top is a beetle with entwined nerve-like structures, on the left is an axolotl and a sandworm choked by rose thorns and vines. On the bottom are a pair of fish speaker warriors each holding a banner, surrounded by a border of tree branches, on the right are nerve ganglia-like shapes. /end ID]

Alternate version under the cut:

disease:

RENÉ MAGRITTE / “LA MÉDITATION” / 1936
[oil on canvas | 50 x 65 cm.]

Great Covers for three of the original Dune Series novels.

Every sense you possess is an instrument for reacting to change. Does that tell you nothing?

And when the box opens, I return to this presence like a stranger in a primitive land.

You must remember that I have at my internal demand every expertise known to our history. This is the fund of energy I draw upon when I address the mentality of war. If you have not heard the moaning cries of the wounded and the dying, you do not know about war. I have heard those cries in such numbers that they haunt me. I have cried out myself in the aftermath of battle. I have suffered wounds in every epoch-wounds from fist and club and rock, from shell-studded limb and bronze sword, from the mace and the cannon, from arrows and lasguns and the silent smothering of atomic dust, from biological invasions which blacken the tongue and drown the lungs, from the swift gush of flame and the silent working of slow poisons… and more I will not recount! I have seen and felt them all. To those who dare ask why I behave as I do, I say: With my memories, I can do nothing else. I am not a coward. And once… I was human.

“Did you build high walls around you only to sit within them and indulge in self-pity?” The walls were built because great forces have been unleashed in my Empire.

At the portal, one Fish Speaker guard whispered to another: “Is God troubled?”

And her companion replied: “The sins of this universe would trouble anyone.”

Leto heard them and wept silently.

“I don’t understand you, m'Lord.”
“That is the beginning of knowledge - the discovery of something we do not understand.”

A wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

lessthanagodmorethanaman:

The Wisdom of Leto II (3)

lessthanagodmorethanaman:

The Wisdom of Leto II (2)

I ended up doing more- a lot more- and there’s some deep cuts into the lore coming, too.

lessthanagodmorethanaman:

The Wisdom of Leto II (1)

So I have been busy for a while, I’ve been obsessively creating dumb comics based on God Emperor of Dune, I’m currently up to episode, like, 24. 

This will appeal to no one except people who are into drug-crazed mind bending science fiction tomes, but I thought I’d let you know in case people like it.

manyworldspress:

Marc Simonetti, wraparound cover illustration for a Brazilian Portuguese edition of God Emperor of Dune (Imperador deus de Duna), by Frank Herbert (Editora Aleph, 2017).

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Leto II, the God Emperor by C0SMICILLUSTRATOR on reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/dune/comments/j7crpw/just_finished_god_emperor_of_dune_for_the_first/