BENE GESSERIT WITCH PAIMONA: The Ninth Spirit in this Order is Paimon, Paimoni, or Paimona, a Great Queen and very obedient unto Diana-Lucifera. She appears in most comely manifestation of perfect shape seated upon a dromedary with a most glorious crown of serpentine braided hair upon her head. Around her naked form to dance and swirl a host of lascivious female Spirits whom are singing hypnotic tones to groan orgasmic stirring the desert sands of her planet. She has a most sensuous voice to entice her Master at first coming and her 'speech' so overpowering of Sexual power and attraction that the Magician will not be able to control his thoughts for she to strongly arouse him unless he to compel her otherwise. She can teach all Arts and Sciences and other Secret things deeply Arcane of Tantra to Kamasutra. She can reveal what the Universe and that of Earth is within the grand scheme of existence and the reasoning for its formation and that of the interaction of Mind and Matter as well as any other thing her Master desires to know.
She gives Dignity, and confirms the same. She can bind the Mind to make any Woman and Man subject unto her Master's will if he so desires it. She gives excellent Female Familiars whom can teach all Arts. She is to be observed towards the West. She is of the Order of (Dominions) Dominations. She has under her 200 Legions of Female infernal Spirits and part of them are of the Order of Valkyria (Dakini Angels), and the other part Potentates. Now if the Magician calls upon this Spirit alone, he must make her an ejaculatory offering each Night around the Cycle of the Moon; and hence she to stride hungrily seeking out fornication into his Dream to be also attended by her two subject Queens of salacious intent called Labala and Abalimi whose carnal hunger he has to also fully satisfy whereupon all three to visit him within his Dreams to turn orgiastic of much coupling. These three Spirits Paimona, Labala and Abalimi will appear with an entourage of Female Familiars who are of the Order of Potentates being those of Labala’s and Abalimi’s host of 25 Legions of Female Spirits; these Spirits who are subject unto Paimona are not always with her unless the Magician compels them.
PAIMONA BENE GESSERIT WITCH OF DUNE
Paimona can be equated to a Bene Gesserit Witch whom beckons back from an Alternate World of a Future possibility whereby one can access what she represents at the level of the Quantum Dream made Lucid of Awareness. The Bene Gesserit are a key social, religious and political force of Matriarchal power structure in Frank Herbert's Science Fiction Dune Universe of superb synthesis. The Bene Gesserit are described as an exclusive Sisterhood whose Coven members train their lithe bodies and supple minds through years of in depth arduous physical and mental conditioning in order to obtain their psychic powers and heightened abilities, which can easily seem as being magical to those outside of their Coven. Due to their very secretive nature and misunderstood abilities, outsiders often call the Bene Gesserit Witches, although the title is quite apt. Acolytes who have acquired the full breadth of Bene Gesserit abilities are called Reverend Mothers within the Sisterhood ranks of the Bene Gesserit organization.
Trained at the Mother School, which is based upon the planet named as Wallach IX, and later situated upon a hidden world known as Chapterhouse, the Bene Gesserit are intensely loyal only to their own Coven. However, to obtain their political goals so as to avoid outside interference, they often shield themselves with illusions and that of Psychic glamour as being loyal to other groups or individuals, which be the wiles of Woman.
"Thus spoke St. Alia-of-the-Knife: "The Reverend Mother must combine the seductive wiles of a courtesan with the untouchable majesty of a virgin goddess, holding these attributes in tension so long as the powers of her youth endure. For when youth and beauty have gone, she will find that the place-between, once occupied by tension, has become a wellspring of cunning and resourcefulness." (Muad'Dib, Family Commentaries by the Princess Irulan)
It is mentioned within Frank Herbert's original novel Dune whose themes in many respects foresaw the present conflict in the Middle-East over Oil (spice Melange for example) that in the time of chaos after the Butlerian Jihad and before the unveiling of the Orange Catholic Bible, the Bene Gesserit had, "consolidated their hold upon the sorceresses, explored the subtle narcotics, developed prana-bindu training and conceived the Missionaria Protectiva, that black arm of superstition. But it is also the period that saw the composing of the litany against fear and the assembly of the Azhar Book, that bibliographic marvel that preserves the great secrets of the most ancient faiths.”
The Bene Gesserit have existed for millennia, whom appeared as a semi-mystical school of secretive Illuminati Matriarchal adepts in the arcane arts, which trained Women for service within the Empire as Truthsayers or as Sexual Mates. In reality, the Bene Gesserit were manipulating and controlling the Empire via subtle means behind the scenes in order to aid humanity to become more mature and ultimately guide the human race towards tapping into its genetic and creative potential of coming New-Age.
The Bene Gesserit are known for their superior Martial-Arts combat skills, as well as possessing an in depth understanding of precise physiological control, which allowed, among other countless uses, precise control over conception and embryotic sex determination, ageing and even the ability to render poisons harmless within their own bodies. The power over their own Voices allowed the Bene Gesserit to control others by merely modulating their vocal tones, which many a Woman is naturally quite good at to take further. Sisters who had survived a ritualized poisoning known as the 'Spice Agony' (Symbolically associated with Pre-Menstrual Menopause) achieved increased awareness and abilities through access to their Mitochondrial 'Other Memory,' and were subsequently known as Reverend Mothers.
The Bene Gesserit had developed a large-scale breeding program in order to engender a 'Superbeing,' which they could use in order to gain control over the Empire more directly. To do this they sent breeding sisters to mate with those Males whose genes the Bene Gesserit required whose bloodlines they had secretly and subtly manipulated over generations, which at a Bio-Molecular level the intelligence of the Mitochondria is accomplishing via many an intuitive Female.
The Bene Gesserit Super-Being of a Master known as the Kwisatz Haderach arrived a generation earlier than expected amidst their breeding plan in the form of Paul Atreides, who was free from their Matriarchal control. In Dune, Atreides took control of the underlying Matriarchal structure of the Empire to thence gain a tight monopoly over the spice Melange, thereby becoming the Sisterhood's enemy since he knew what they were up to. His son Leto II, however, had far greater powers than his father and for 3,500 years Leto dominated the Universe and the Bene Gesserit. The spice supply of the Bene Gesserit was severely limited, which led to huge restrictions being placed upon their subversive actions. The Bene Gesserit breeding program was taken away from them as well. Leto II's intentions though were, in part, to strengthen and mature the Bene Gesserit, a strategy, which proved most successful.
After Leto's death, the Bene Gesserit slowly acquired back their Matriarchal power. During the times of the great Famine and that of the Scattering, many Reverend Mothers were sent out as Missionaries among the scattered colonies of humanity whom occupied other worlds. The Bene Gesserit survived for a time with no undue problems until the scattered colonies began to return back to the enfoldment of the Old Empire. The descendants of Tleilaxu Face Dancers (Shape-shifters who could assume other peoples appearances) and another Matriarchal order called the Honored Matres began to threaten the Bene Gesserit's established power. At this time the head of the Sisterhood, known as Mother Superior Taraza, formulated a bold plan to release humanity from out of the oracular hold of Leto II by destroying the planet A'rakis (Dune), the only known natural planetary source of the spice Melange, which is produced by the Sandworms of Dune. The Honored Matres were goaded into destroying Dune while the Bene Gesserit shipped a single Sandworm to their secret home planet of Chapterhouse in an attempt to begin a new spice cycle. Chapterhouse by this time had been terraformed by the Bene Gesserit whose melting Tundra and dying forests became as a desert planet like A'rakis in order to sustain the Sandworms.
"When are the witches to be trusted? Never! The dark side of the magic universe belongs to the Bene Gesserit and we must reject them." (Tylwyth Waff, Master of Masters, Chapterhouse Dune by Frank Herbert)
The Honored Matres began to eradicate all of the planets held by the Bene Gesserit thereby enslaving the populaces of all those planets, which they controlled whose conflict with the Bene Gesserit was that of a war in heaven like that of the Angels and Gods fighting the Fallen Angels and Titans of elder lore. They were being pursued by far more powerful forces from the time of the Scattering. It was duly discovered that the Honored Matres were in reality descendants of Reverend Mothers and Fish Speakers (All Female Warrior Order) whom had fled to other planets during the time of the Scattering, as well as liberated Tleilaxu Women whose wombs served as the core of the axlotl tanks. The newly inaugerated Mother Superior Darwi Odrade formulated yet another bold plan; she decided to utilise a captive Honored Matre turned Reverend Mother in order to unite the two forces under a single leader. At the end of the original series as written by Frank Herbert, a very shaky truce existed as the two Matriarchal powers were allied under the Mother Superior/Great Honored Matre Murbella.
The continuation of the Dune series written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, entitled 'Hunters of Dune,' had Murbella struggling to unite the opposing Angelic factions of her New Sisterhood whereby she adopted a new title, Mother Commander. One faction of Bene Gesserit was willing to merge with the Honored Matres to fight the coming Unknown Enemy while another faction believed it to be fundamentally wrong to align themselves with the Matres, whom they considered to be their sworn enemies of Demonic influence. Sheeana led 150 dissenters to escape the Bene Gesserit planet of Chapterhouse aboard a No-Ship, which was later named the Ithaca.
Other factions erupted forth within the order of the Honored Matres, many of whom refused to acknowledge Murbella as their leader; the largest of the rebel groups was led by the Matre Superior called 'Hellica' from the Tleilax system of worlds. However, some of the Honored Matres upon Chapterhouse, agreed with Murbella's visions while others resisted assimilation. The two Matriarchal orders would gather at large meetings upon Chapterhouse where the Bene Gesserit would stand at one side of the room, while the Honored Matres stood on the other. After a bloody brawl , which flared up between the opposing acolytes within the schoolyard, which left several dead, Murbella imposed a strict dress code forcing the entire sisterhood to wear a spray-on skin tight black singlesuit.
Murbella amassed weaponry for the coming battle with the Unknown Enemy, wherein she formed an elite force of commando troops to beat down the 'Rebel' Honored Matres based upon other planets who still refused to acknowledge her as their leader. Murbella's elite force of "Valkyries" were trained with the combined battle talents of Bene Gesserit, Honored Matre and even those of the Swordmasters of the Ginaz. Eventually, Murbella and her Angelic army were able to defeat Hellica upon Tleilax, which finally galvanized many dissenters into joining her Holy cause.
Within the 'Legends of Dune' of prequel trilogy written by Brian Herbert and Anderson the trilogy reveals that the Sorceresses of Rossak, whom possessed destructive Telekinetic powers, (which only exists within Females) instigated a breeding plan to create more powerful female Telepaths, were the original predecessors of the Bene Gesserit. A Rossak Sorceress always met her demise when she unleashed her full power whereby they sacrificed themselves to eliminate some of the Titans and Neo-Cymeks during Butlerian Jihad. Later, the Rossak Sorceresses expanded their genetic program in order to preserve human bloodlines when the entirety of humanity was endangered by a widespread plague (the "Demon Scourge," genetically engineered and unleashed by the thinking machines). Raquella Berto-Anirul became the leader of the Rossak Sorceresses after surviving a poisoning attempt by being the first to internally render the toxin harmless. The ordeal of being poisoned also made Raquella the first to access Other Memory whereby she learned to use the power of the Voice; she later established the order of the Bene Gesserit, instituting a similar ritualized poisoning to unlock the same abilities in other females.
The ultimate agenda of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood, which is covered up to the end of the novel Dune, is to engender the creation of the 'Kwisatz Haderach,' who is a male Bene Gesserit of a super-being. The Kwisatz Haderach is achieved through a massive human breeding program, which the Sisterhood has conducted over countless generations; using careful manipulations of relationships and sexual interactions between people in general, the Bene Gesserit have controlled bloodlines throughout the ages. The Kwisatz Haderach, has access to both Male and Female 'Y' and 'X' chromosome lines in Other Memory, whom will become an overt figure within the Bene Gesserit's political manipulations, to then be thrust upon the universe as the Messiah.
Withn the novel Dune, the Bene Gesserit breeding program was initially orchestrated to come to full fruition via the union of an Atreides daughter and the na-Baron Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen (son of Abulurd Harkonnen, brother of the Siridar-Baron Vladimir Harkonnen; Vladimir is himself secretly the natural father of the Lady Jessica). However, the Bene Gesserit breeding program was entirely disrupted when Jessica chose to conceive an Atreides son rather than the daughter she had been ordered to produce. This son proved to be the Kwisatz Haderach, who was born a generation early.
In the book Dune Messiah, the Tleilaxu Scytale reveals that the Bene Tleilax have engendered the creation of their own Kwisatz Haderachs. However in their case, such beings are either that of being pure evil or pure good. Scytale observes that their Kwisatz Haderachs could only be destroyed by forcing them to become their opposites. Within the novel, Scytale raises the point as being part of a conspiracy in order to destroy Paul Atreides, the Bene Gesserit's Kwisatz Haderach of unexpected arrival. The conspiracy slowly unfolds along the lines of Herbert's underlying theme throughout the Dune novels that 'Prescience' grants control, however, control paradoxically traps the 'Prescient' in a foreseen future, which they cannot alter.
In the book God Emperor of Dune, the God-Emperor Leto II has taken control over the Bene Gesserit breeding program to orientate towards his own agenda. The following book, Heretics of Dune, the Bene Gesserit have given up on the idea of a breeding programme to create a Messiah, instead the breeding program is orientated towards creating special individuals of great talent and usefulness in order to heighten certain human characteristics in order preserve them. The last book of the original series, Chapterhouse Dune, the 'Latter-day Bene Gesserit' seem to see themselves as Shepherdesses of humanity, whom gently nudge humans forward, rather than that of the utilising gross sexual manipulations, which are described within the early novels.
The behind-the-scene political intrigues of the breeding program are revealed within the Prelude to the Dune trilogy while the program nears fruition. A Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother is chosen every generation to serve as "Kwisatz Mother" whereby guiding the program. Anirul is the youngest Kwisatz Mother ever to whom the Reverend Mothers in Other Memory have revealed everything, while keeping the details of the program hidden from the majority of the other Bene Gesserit. It is Anirul who is able to make the bloodline calculations, which leads to the birth of Paul Atreides.
The origins of the Bene Gesserit program are described within the Legends of Dune series. The Sorceresses of Rossak initially kept breeding records circa 400 B.G., while attempting to evolve the potency and the prevalence of their feminine Telekinetic powers. In 108 B.G., Ticia Cenva led the Rossak Sorceresses to collect numerous genetic samples of various human bloodlines, for they were in jeopardy from a catastrophic virus genetically engineered and unleashed by the Solid-State-Intelligence-thinking machines. Since the Sorceresses later became the Bene Gesserit, this process marked the beginning of the Sisterhood's breeding program, which would later culminate towards a specific goal of engendering the creation of the Kwisatz Haderach.
The Bene Gesserit have chosen to use indirect Illuminati methodologies in order to further their political goals, rather than to wield direct power themselves for they have taken note of the Taoist law that whatever rises must fall; and so rather than taking direct control over the human race, they instead manipulate the social and political order of humanity via subtlety and insinuation, often using extraordinarily long-term stratagems spanning many generations. They avoid becoming or seeming too rich or too powerful or indeed ever revealing the extent of their true powers, so as to avoid being seen as those whom are responsible for the rise and fall of Governments and Empires.
The Bene Gesserit practice "Religious Engineering" through a faction of their order called the Missionaria Protectiva, which spreads contrived myths, End-Of-Days Prophecies and other New-Age superstitions (collectively known as Panoplia Prophetica) among the populations of the Empire. A Bene Gesserit wil then be enabled to later take total advantage of the Prophecies, casting herself as either a Channeller, Priestess, Guide, Protector, or some other figure in fulfillment of a contrived Prophecy, in order to manipulate the religious subjects of a particular engineered cult for ideological protection or other political purposes. These myths also exploit the Mythic-Consciousness of the collective via religion as a powerful force in human society; by controlling the particulars of a religion, the Bene Gesserit have a highly manipulative lever over the whole of society in general.
In the book Dune, Jessica and Paul take refuge among the Fremen desert tribes after the attack upon the House Atreides. With his mother's guidance, Paul is able to make use of the engineered indoctrinated myths of the Fremen by claiming he is their Mahdi of a Messianic figure from Prophesised legendary material, which was planted among the Fremen by the Missionaria Protectiva. That the Mahdi legend has been spread upon Dune indicates to Jessica that conditions upon Dune are truly awful, since this particular legend is reserved for only the most harshest of environments where a Bene Gesserit would need the maximum advantage over the surrounding society in which she finds her self, in order to influence. Paul's meteoric rise to power is greatly facilitated by his association with the Mahdi legend.
The Missionaria is also used in a far more ambitious ways such as the Bene Gesserit employing its propaganda tactics in order to prepare the entire Empire for its Kwisatz Haderach. The underlying plan of agenda is to unite the Old Empire under the Matriarchal rule of the Bene Gesserit against the forces of the Scattering so as to create a New-Universe-Order. The plan is to utilise Reverend Mother Sheeana's ability in order to control the great Sandworms to become a direct religious force due to the universe wide need for the spice Melange.
The Bene Gesserit usually train their acolytes while they are very young, and those of preference would begin their training from birth. The younger a girl becomes an acolyte, the more likely that the chosen girl will become a Reverend Mother. The Bene Gesserit do train women at later ages, but only if they are supremely talented (e.g., the House Corrino leader Farad'n) or if the women concerned have already received similar training (e.g., the Honored Matre Murbella).
The Spice agony of a woman is an ordeal where a female acolyte of the Bene Gesserit takes a poisonous Awareness Spectrum Narcotic (Symbolically alluding to Pre-Menstrual Menopause) and, by internally changing the substance within her body, neutralizing its toxicity, awakens her inner self and the selves of all her Female ancestors (called Other Memory: Mitochondrial Memories). In Dune, Lady Jessica reveals that the ritual had originated with the "discovery of the poison (LSD) drug on Rossak;" the Sisterhood had utilised some form or descendant of this drug until the discovery of the Water of Life (Ayahuasca: Soul-Vine, associated with Serpent visions) on Arrakis. The Water of Life is produced by drowning a "little maker" (small Sandworm: Serpent - Vine) in water, making it give up its bile (which is a highly concentrated form of Melange). In the Fremen version of the Water of Life rite, after her ordeal the Reverend Mother provides the transmuted water for their Sietch Orgy.
An acolyte who is unable to transform her Spice agony invariably dies. Only females had ever survived their agony, but through their intensive breeding program the Bene Gesserit sought to engender the creation of a male Kwisatz Haderach who would be able to transmute the illuminating poison in order to survive the ordeal while other men would not. The Bene Gesserit attempt over many generations through selective breeding and genetic manipulation to produce such a being. A male Kwisatz Haderach has abilities, which are different from those of a Reverend Mother. During the Spice Agony, there are two areas of the soul that a female acolyte may visit, the part that gives, and the part that takes; however, a Reverend Mother cannot access the memories of her (Y-Chromosome) Male Ancestors, and is intensely terrified by the Psychic space within her where the masculine memories inhabit of Beast. Until Paul Atreides, all men who had attempted the Spice Agony of self induced poison ordeal had died.
Jessica endures the Spice Agony (Ayahuasca intake) while she is pregnant with her daughter, Alia. This had a profound affect upon the unborn Alia, who was born a full Reverend Mother who had the complete Other Memory of both the male and female ancestors within her genetic memory of bloodline. The Bene Gesserit refer to such children who ar born this way as (Aliester Crowley's Moon-Children) "Abominations." These children are born without the benefits of Bene Gesserit mental conditioning, this leads to the children becoming quite insane and consequently that of Alia's downfall, for she was unable to maintain control of her multiple-personalities of other egos striving for dominance. Interestingly, the personality, which eventually possessed Alia was that of the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, Alia's grandfather, whom she had murdered as a child as described in the events of Dune. Presumably, Alia had been more genetically attuned to access male Other Memory than any typical Reverend Mother, since her brother Paul was the Kwisatz Haderach.
The origin of the Spice agony ritual is explained within the prequel of Dune where one finds The Battle of Corrin when Raquella Berto-Anirul has been poisoned by the Rossak Sorceress Ticia Cenva with the Rossak (LSD) Drug. Anirul manages to internally transmute the poison into a harmless substance and is thereby the first to experience the awakening of Other Memory. Raquella later inaugerates the order of the Bene Gesserit whom perfect the technique and training so that other women can survive the ordeal in order to awaken their latent psychic abilities.
One of the 'powers' of a Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother is her Other Memory, which is the summation of memories and personality traits belonging to all her female ancestors, passed down through Mitochondrial genetic memory, up to the point when each following ancestor was born where their physical contact with the mother is broken. The ego and memory of each ancestral personality trait remains as a distinct identity within the Reverend Mother's mind, whereby her ancestors are able to manifest themselves into her awareness at appropriate or emotional moments of crisis, although the Reverend Mother's ego is always the dominant personality. Within the prequel novel of Dune: The Battle of Corrin by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson revealed that the first Bene Gesserit to access Other Memory had been Raquella Berto-Anirul, the founder of the Bene Gesserit order.
A Reverend Mother only has access to her female ancestral lineage in Other Memory while her male ancestral line is totally unavailable to her, presenting its self as a dark void, which totally terrifies her to the point of death. Until the time of God Emperor of Dune, the whole purpose of the Bene Gesserit breeding program is to engender the creation of a Kwisatz Haderach male who has Other Memory and thereby able to access both ancestral lines, male and female of Hermaphrodite Awareness.
Reverend Mothers also have the ability of passing on their own ego and memory personality traits onto another Reverend Mother at will, merely by touching their foreheads together whereby attaining a form of immortality as long as their Bene Gesserit line is not broken. A Reverend Mother whom is facing her demise within the presence of another Reverend Mother will pass on her ego and memories in order to prevent the loss of experience and ancestral memories. This is especially the case when the Mother Superior perishes, it is important for a Reverend Mother to take on her ego and memories so that her plans and strategies may continue uninterrupted. This technique of immortality engineering is first explored in the book Dune, when Jessica accepts the life experience of the dying Fremen Sayyadina Ramallo. In Chapterhouse Dune, Darwi Odrade is Mother Superior, who was present at the previous Mother Superior's death, whom lives on within Odrade's Other Memory whereby Odrade represents the most continuous line of leadership. When conditions become extreme, a large Coven of Bene Gesserit will practice Extremis Progressiva, which is a mass sharing of ego and memories with each other to spread all the ego and memories amongst each other; thereby, if one Bene Gesserit survives, they all survive. In Chapterhouse Dune , the Bene Gesserit school upon the planet Lampadas is under attack by the Honoured Matres, whereby they undertake the Extremis Progressiva.
Bene Gesserit are also trained in what they call "the Voice," which is a means to control others merely by selected tone shadings of the voice. By modulating the subtleties of her voice, a Bene Gesserit can influence others on a subconscious level, compelling total obedience in other individuals, which they cannot resist, whether they are consciously aware of the attempt or not. Training in the Voice is qute independent of the Reverend Mother ritual, whereby individuals outside of the order may also be instructed in its use. Prior to Dune, Jessica has begun teaching the use of the Voice to Paul; after the Reverend Mother Mohiam tests him in the novel, she urges Jessica to "ignore the regular order of training. His own safety requires the Voice. He already has a good start in it, but we both know how much more he needs ... and that desperately." Jessica herself later notes of Paul's novice attempt: "The tone, the timbre excellent – imperative, very sharp. A slightly lower pitch would have been better, but it could still fall within this man's spectrum."
The Voice is totally useless against those whom cannot hear the speaker; both Baron Harkonnen in Dune and House Corrino in Children of Dune employ individuals who are deaf to guard Jessica, knowing full well that she cannot control them via the use of the Voice. The effectiveness of the use of the Voice has limitations, which are determined by how well a Bene Gesserit can analyze her target's personality and vocal patterns in order to determine what pitch of her Voice will be most effective; however, such a limitations are usually negated by the Bene Gesserit's superior intuitive psychological observation skills so as to determine their targets emotional weaknesses. The use of the Voice is that of a manipulation of the target's underlying subconscious mind, whereby it is limited when used against an extremely disciplined mind, such as a Reverend Mother or a strong Mentat who have control over their emotions; if the target understands what the Voice is and how it works, and is aware that it is being used, he may resist its influence. An individual who is trained in the use of the Voice may easily detect its use by others, even subtly. In Dune Messiah, Paul trains some of his guards in order to resist the Voice so that he may imprison rebellious Bene Gesserit, but then Paul had initially been trained in its use by his mother Jessica. By the time of Children of Dune, Gurney Halleck has also been trained by Jessica to resist the Voice completely.
In Heretics of Dune Reverend Mother Odrade reveals to Sheeana that planetary populations whom are exposed to long term Voice control learn ways to adapt to it and to overcome its influence, whereby they can no longer be manipulated. This is one of the reasons why the Matriarchal Honored Matres have been driven back into the Old Empire; through their over-controlling ways, they have built up both resistance and that of rebellion to their nagging Voice, who ended up doing a runner from their former subjects. The prequel Dune: The Battle of Corrin establishes that the first Bene Gesserit whom utilsed the Voice is Raquella Berto-Anirul, the founder of the order.
Bene Gesserit are highly trained in order to exercise their acute intuitive perception at all times, noticing to an almost terrifying degree details, which others usually miss. When their intuitive abilities are combined with their analytical training, Bene Gesserit appear to be Witches, who are capable of divining secrets from a persons circumstances, which are nigh invisible to everyone else. The heightened intuitive sensitivity of a Bene Gessrit can determine the slightest differences in air currents or that of noticing the design of a room to gauge where hidden portals and spyholes can be found; tonal variations in a person's voice and tiny physical reactions of body language allows a Bene Gesserit to deeply understand a person's emotional state, whereby she is then enabled to automatically manipulate it of martial arts reflex.
The Bene Gesserit are highly trained as Truthsayers who are able to detect whether an individual is lying by detecting the slight inflections and tonal changes within a subject's voice, as well as astutely observe and interpret their body language. A Bene Gesserit can also intuitively sense and analyse subconsciously controlled physical signs like that of pulse and heart rate within another individual. The perception of the Truthsayer is an ability, which all humans have, in principle, but such requires extensive training in order to develop the ability to a point of usefulness so as to gauge factual information, which can be utilised.
The in depth training of the Bene Gesserit aids in developing the Truthsayer ability beyond the par of most, but it is not the only way so as to determine what another individual is consciously thinking or subconsciously feeling. It is not a skill as such but that of the development of a latent talent in all. One of Dune's characters describes the talent as "whenever I hear someone tell a lie, I want to turn my back on them."
Truthsayers are extensively utilised within the arena of politics as well as trade; the Padishah Emperors are never seen to be without a Bene Gesserit Truthsayer. Combined with the Voice, Truthsaying is also utilsed for interrogation and torture purposes. Truthsayers have been known to be wrong or to become deceived, which is usually the case when they are facing another Bene Gesserit who has of course been extensively trained to disguise the very signs the Truthsayer is attempting to analyse via her art.
Bene Gesserit also have the ability to practice tha art of Simulflow, which literally means, the 'Simultaneous Flow Of Several Threads Of Consciousness' at any given time; Mental Multitasking, in other words. When the ability of Simulflow is combined with the average Bene Gesserit's analytical abilities as well as her Other Memory she becomes frightening of intelligence. This Simulflow can also be utilised in tandem with Other Memory; Reverend Mother Darwi Odrade practiced both forms in the book Heretics of Dune.
The Bene Gesserit also intensely develop their physical abilities as well as their mental abilities for both work together in balance. A trained Sister has full control over each and every muscle within her body through the training known as Prana-Bindu. This allows a Bene Gesserit to bend the last joint within her little toe while remaining otherwise motionless, bend and contort her body in gymnastic ways, which most would consider impossible, or put a remarkable amount of force behind a slight physical blow of a mere touch. The mental part of Prana-Bindu, or Prana-Nervature (Prana stands for breath, Bindu stands for musculature) is the precise control over the totality of nerves within the human body. In Dune, Reverend Mother Mohiam confronts Paul with a nerve induction device in order to test him, which causes the sensation of intense pain even though he is not being physically harmed. Paul learns that he is not the only one to have been tested by the device. However due to his mother's influence he is specially resistant; the nerve induction device is used among the Bene Gesserit in order to measure self control, nerve control, and as Mohiam describes it, crisis and observation.
Unarmed combat techniques are part of the specialized Martial Art called the Weirding Way, (derived from the Anglo-Saxon word: Wyrd), which incorporates the extensive knowledge of Prana-Bindu methods of optimized muscle control, which enables a Bene Gesserit or another trained in such combat skills to deliver powerful blows and to move with extreme precision and speed. The basic principle behind the Weirding Way, as Farad'n Corrino communicates, "My mind affects my reality." A user of the Weirding Way has to learn to perceive that the action he or she "wants" to perform has already been performed. For example, to 'imagine' ones self behind an opponent at the current moment in time, which then informs ones subconscious mind to go there without one thinking about it; when fully trained, this knowledge will physically place one at the desired spot of automatic function. The arts Prana Bindu incorporation allows even small attacks to inflict massive damage, Weirding Way combat is usually to the death.
The practice of Prana-Bindu allows a Bene Gesserit to precisely control each muscle and nerve, within her body as well as to also allow her to have complete conscious control over the functions of her internal organs and body chemistry, which is usually under the domain of her subconscious mind. A Bene Gesserit can completely control her breathing and heart rate to such a degree that she enter into a Death Trance to appear as if she is dead to most tests even after intense physical exertions. The Bene Gesserit can also control their physical need for food and water to such extremes of hunger and thirst, as well as having the ability of committing suicide at will by simply stopping their own hearts. The Bene Gesserit are immune to most poisons, since they can simply change the chemical makeup of any harmful substance within their body to render their toxic affects as being harmless. A Bene Gesserit has the ability should she desire to do so can radically slow down her ageing process dramatically by controlling every aspect of her metabolism. However, no Bene Gesserit would ever consider doing this, since it would bring too much attention to the Sisterhood and reveal their abilities. In the book Children of Dune, Jessica comes to the realisation that her daughter Alia has halted her ageing processes, which is considered to be the first sign that her daughter is sinking into Abomination.
One of the main biological functions, which a Bene Gesserit has under their control is that of their own menstrual cycles, as well as their ability to control, at conception, their child's eventual gender. Jessica was commanded by the Bene Gesserit order to bear only daughters to the Atreides, but she defied her sisters, for she loved the Duke whom desired a son, whereupon she gave birth to Paul Atreides. The Bene Gesserit had conspired against the Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV's desire to have a male heir whereby they ordered his Bene Gesserit wife to only give him daughters, such as Princess Irulan.
The Bene Gesserit are renowned for their carnal skills in Seduction, the Sexual arts and most especially that of Sexual-Imprinting. The most talented and highly-trained seducers are known as Imprinters. Men who are usually in a position of power or that of attaining influence, or those with specific genetic qualities, which the Bene Gesserit order wishes to assimilate into their breeding program, are the typical targets of a Bene Gesserit Imprinter. Those Men who are seduced by an Imprinter are permanently Imprinted by the intense Sexual experience, which the Iprinter induces and are thereafter consciously or subconsciously favourable to the Sisterhood's political machinations.
In the book Dune, Lady Fenring is ordered by the Bene Gesserit to seduce Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen so as to preserve his bloodline by the retrieval of his genetic material through conception. Her intention is also that of planting deep within his deepest subconscious self the necessary Prana-Bindu phrases in order to bend him to the will of the Bene Gesserit, which she later refers to as the "Hypno-ligation of that Feyd-Rautha's psyche." When Paul later fights Feyd to the death, Jessica advises her son to temporarily stun him by utilising the word-sound of 'Uroshnor,' which is typically implanted into the psyche of a dangerous male who has been pre-programmed by the Bene Gesserit. Paul, however, refuses to use the Prana-Bindu word phrase to his advantage.
In the book Heretics of Dune, the Reverend Mother and Imprinter called Lucilla is is instructed to seduce and imprint Duncan Idaho ghola in order for the Sisterhood to acquire control over him; however, Duncan ultimately avoids her. Lucilla makes mention of the hundreds of sexual positions and other erotic variations she knows. In Heretics, the Honored Matres have also refined the ability of seduction and sexual imprinting to such an intense level that the seduced male becomes completely enslaved to the female Imprinter. The captured Honored Matre Murbella attempts to Imprint Duncan; however, he has his own Imprinting ability, which had been secretly conditioned into him by his female Tleilaxu creators. When Duncan's Imprinting ability manifests itself, Murbella and Duncan basically imprint each other, neither of them having complete dominion over the other. In Chapterhouse Dune the order has learned the Honored Matre method of extreme Sexual Imprinting from Murbella whereby they utilise it for their own purposes.
A seductive imprinter can be successfully resisted should the subject be psychologically pre-conditioned to her influence. When the imprinter attempts to seduce such a subject, he will automatically respond to her imprinting and resist, or attempt to slay her. In other words, if an imprinter of a seducer is recognized they can be easily avoided or better still, to have some fun with ones eyes wide open.
The Reverend Mothers have become entirely dependent upon the consumption Melange, which enables them to sustain their Psychic and heightened mental abilities. Any individual whom consumes Melange on a regular basis becomes addicted to the substance, thereby requiring it for survival; however, an individual who has gone through the agony has a far greater need; although the effects of Melange are highly favourable, including vastly increased lifespans and heightened mental powers, withdrawal from Melange invariably results in a very painful death. Melange is exceedingly expensive and thus its acquirement is a continual drain upon the Sisterhood's financial wealth.
The most significant threat to the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood is the potential loss of its supply of Melange; most of the time since its discovery, Melange has only been limited to one source, the planet A'rakis. Since this primary source can be controlled, the Bene Gesserit (and the rest of the Known Universe) may also be controlled by utilising their reliance upon the Spice; this despotism is a central issue in the beginning of the Dune series.
The ability of Other Memory features prominently within the Dune series for various reasons, one reason is that a human with access to Other Memory whom has not developed a sufficiently strong personality structure of an ego will eventually become possessed by a stronger influence of an ancestral ego; if a Bene Gesserit undergoes the Spice Agony (LSD) while pregnant, the fetus will also experience the Spice Agony whereby gaining access to Other Memory, of a "pre-born." Since the fetus has no personality structure of its own, it is especially susceptible to becoming a vehicle of one of these ego-personalities, which in Tibetan Buddhism is called a Tulku. Such a child is called an "Abomination" by the Bene Gesserit, and abominations are always killed immediately since the Bene Gesserit fear Changeling children. In the book Dune, when Jessica undergoes the Spice Agony while among the Fremen, she is pregnant with Alia. The Bene Gesserit are totally outraged and horrified by Alia's existence, but the child is outside of their control. In Children of Dune, Alia eventually succumbs to the ancestral personality traits of her grandfather, the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, who desires nothing more than the destruction of the Atreides, whereby he is given another opportunity via Alia in order to realize his agenda. Paul and Chani's children, Leto II and Ghanima, are also pre-born Changelings; however, before they become possessed by stronger more developed ancestral personality traits, they stumble across solutions. Leto is forced to endure a Spice Agony, via which he constructs a hierarchy of benevolent ancestral personality traits (such as those of Paul and Paul's father Leto I) who protect him against malign influences; Ghanima, as part of their plan to fake the death of Leto, consciously learns to block the memory of Leto's existence and their plan, which inadvertently leads to Ghanima developing the mental discipline of protecting her own, yet undeveloped ego. She also Evokes the ancestral personality trait of her mother, Chani, as a "door guard" to protect her from the other alter egos; Ghanima only "peeks behind the door" when she needs advice from her ancestral Other Memories.
The litany against the Emotive Charge of Fear is an incantation used by the Bene Gesserit throughout the series to focus their minds and calm themselves in times of peril. The litany is as follows:
"I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain."
Lady Jessica teaches the powerful litany to her son Paul, who uses it in Dune when faced with Mohiam's test of his ability to withstand excruciating pain. The litany is shortened in David Lynch's 1984 film.
Paimona is very much a Bene Gesserit Witch as described in Frank Herbert's Dune, whose Succubus Lucid Dream domain will be of such a Universe to reveal & what one to experience within is not so far removed from ones external reality of present when to look at Dune with eye all singular of vision to perceive Associative Correspondences betwixt and between Science Fiction and Fact to merge of practical perception and utilisation.
REPTILIAN RONOVEA: The Twenty-Seventh Spirit is Ronove or Ronovea. She is a Transylvanian Marchioness and Great Countess of the Order Dracul. She appears amidst visions of ‘Primeval forests’ laden with swirling humid mists to stride forth into ones Seers sight as a creature from out of Reptilian prehistory to then take on a sensuous feminine form whose eyes are Serpentine of nature. At other times she will be seen naked as a Sky-Clad Witch to be riding a gliding Pteridactyl or a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
She is very much into Palaeontology knowing the names of those creatures that have left behind many an ancient Fossilised bone to teach much upon the subject whereby she can take her Master back into the deepest recesses of the Past to know of the Time when Dragons walked the Earth; whereby she loves to hear her Master reciting Lovecraftian Necronomicon tales of the Great Old Ones when to call upon her. She teaches the art of rhetoric very well, and gives good Servants, knowledge of tongues, and favours with friends or foes but only when she has had her Passionate way with her Master via his Dreams so as to fully satiate her insatiable sexual lust.
One will notice that over her navel is a tattoo of a Spider to hearken back to the time of the Carboniferous forests when the insects ruled prior to the ascendancy of the Amphibians weaving their webs of Evolution from Tree to Tree. Her nature is somewhat that of a dominatrix to sometimes take on the guise of a museum curator and adventuring Palaeontologist searching out relics of the Great Old Ones. There are under her command 19 Legions of Raptor Feminine Spirits whom have the habit of sucking Eggs.
One will hear her to say "I will take you back Quantum Dream Time-Travelling into the far distant Past to know of the Great Old Ones to come again of Ouroboros Future, all you have to do is to Evoke me Presently... if you dare!"
REPTILIAN RAPTOR LIZARD OF WONDERLAND
One would find Professor Ronovea attending a SETI conference to overhear NASA’s Chris McKay suggest that Bill the Lizard Palaeontologists should look for Dinosaur relics on the Moon since the Great Old Ones went suddenly extinct about 65 Million years ago; the Dinosaur fossil record is wide open enough that Palaeontologists could have missed a lineage, which went from Possum to Human sized brains within the 10 Million year period it took Mammals to attain ascendancy. There may also be missed relics of a stone-tool phase, which lasted only 2 Million years, but such would have probably been obliterated by a number of natural catastrophes to be brushed away by geological time, while a Dinosaur Luna-landing craft left upon the Moon should stay visible a very long time; however this would only be applicable if Reptilians had developed a similar technology to Humans while Reptilian technological expertise may be far more, so to speak Alien, wherefore Human Scientists may not even recognise it.
Human’s have apparently already dug up a substantial fraction of the richest near-surface Earth metal deposits; so a Dinosaur civilization of the Great Old Ones, which went far beyond the metal usage of Human’s would have left a signature in reduced rich metal deposits. Since the metal doesn’t actually disappear, the Great Old Ones would also have left “strange” metal-junkyard deposits. If modest efforts by Geologists could exclude this possibility, this seems well worth the effort going by Professor Ronovea’s reckoning.
It would be very bad news to hear that metal-using Dinosaurs suddenly went extinct just when the other Dinosaur species met their demise, and immediately after establishing a world wide civilisation, which could have had the technology of spaceflight or other exotic technologies such as Time-Travel capability. If so, either the intelligent Dinosaurs destroyed themselves with far more power than present Humanity can ever muster or that an Intelligent Dinosaur had originally originated off world whose original home-world could have been Mars, which had seeded the Earth long ago and then, much later, became entangled within a cataclysmic conflict that ravaged the Solar-System!
From McKay’s 1996 paper "Time for intelligence on other planets":
"It is now considered probable that the Dinosaurs were not the lumbering clods of urban myth but that they were Biochemically and behaviourally as sophisticated as present Mammals. Evidence continues to point to parenting and social behaviour that is on a par wit small Mammals and Birds. ... (Considering) the small carnivorous Dinosaur Stenonychosaurus, which stood about 120cm, weighed about 40 kg, and had (a brain size ratio) about equal to that of a possum or an octopus, and lived over 12 Million years before the end of the Dinosaurs. ...
One might speculate that perhaps Stenonychosaurus or her progeny did build radio telescopes, but their civilization was destroyed by some internal or external catastrophe. Perhaps the lifetime of their civilization was so short compared with the resolution of the geological record (typically millions of years) that it is simply lost without a trace in the depths of time. It is difficult to say what evidence would survive of Human civilization - if it was terminated now - after 65 million years of tectonic activity, erosion, and sea level change. It is interesting to note that there is one place where the record of human technology will be preserved for times much longer than 100 million years. ... The Apollo landing sites on the Moon would bear mute testimony to technological Humans."
A theoretical Reptilian Humanoid has been the focus of a widely discussed thought experiment of speculative Evolution. For example, in 1982 the Palaeontologist Dale Russell, who is the curator of vertebrate fossils at the National Museum of Canada in Ottawa, conjectured that there may have been a possible evolutionary path, which bipedal predator Dinosaurs might have taken into becoming humanoid of form should they have had not all perished in the K/T extinction event 65 million years ago. The essence of this thought experiment was that bipedal predators (Theropods) which existed at that time, such as Troodon, could have evolved into intelligent beings similar in body plan to Humans. Over great stretches of Geologic time, Russell noted that there had been a steady increase in the Encephalisation quotient or EQ (the relative brain weight when compared to other species with the same body weight) among the Dinosaurs. Russell had discovered the first Troodontid skull, and noted that, while its EQ was low compared to Humans, it was six times higher than that of other Dinosaurs; if the trend in Troodon evolution had continued, its brain case could have measured 1,100 cm3; comparable to that of a Human. Troodontids had semi-manipulative fingers, able to grasp and hold objects to a certain degree, as well as having binocular vision.
However, such an evolutionary path of a Reptilian Intelligence is presently measured in accordance with that of the Human, which is not necessarily applicable since Intelligence can manifest in many another form that a Human will not be able to grasp; an analogy would be that of an Ant seeing its self as Intelligent due to it farming aphids, building nest-cities and using sticks as tools while looking upon other insects as not matching up to its achievements while a Human foot looms overhead, which the Ant cannot understand within its perception of reality to never be able to envisage what the Human has created due to the fact that a Human would be somewhat comparable to an Alien in regards to an Ant’s perspective. The Ant its self was around when the Great Old Ones walked the Earth to have made nest-cities within Dinosaur footprints and were around prior to the arrival of the Dinosaurs when the Insects ruled the world, which to have then ushered in the Amphibians.
Human’s have Reptile traits of Evolutionary development for within every human skull there is a Reptilian Brain-stem, which connects us all with our ancestral Dinosaur past; in essence all Human’s had originally evolved from the Great Old Ones of Dinosaur lineage, hence the Reptile lives within each and everyone of us for one also has the Pineal Gland of vestigial Amphibian eye atop of ones Reptilian Brain-stem.
If there was a Dinosaur Civilisation of the Great Old Ones then it would have been 65 Million years in advance of Human Civilisation if it had not been destroyed by a catastrophic event. Should there have been such a Civilisation of the Great Old Ones it would have been around when Mars still had an atmosphere with running water with perhaps life of its own. May be there is an Alternate Reality next door to our own where the Great Old Ones of the Titan Dinosaurs did not die out, whose Civilisation has developed the technology to travel between dimensions whom would perceive Humanity as being their kin, which Professor Ronovea is very much aware of.
As stated earlier, intelligence cannot be measured in accordance with that of the Human; Ronovea will relate that Carboniferous Insects with minuscule brains may have been just as intelligent as much bigger animals such as the Amphibians, it has been claimed by her research team. Brain size does not indicate a superior intellect. A Mosquito brain the size of a pinhead or that of a Cretaceous period Dinosaur’s walnut sized brain does not necessarily make them less bright than a Mammal, Hominid or even that of Human brain, say Ronovea's researchers.
Computer simulations show that even consciousness could be generated in neural circuits tiny enough to fit into an insect's brain, according to the scientists at Queen Mary, University of London and Cambridge University.
The models suggest that counting ability could be achieved with just a few hundred nerve cells. And a few thousand would be sufficient to make an animal a sentient self-aware being, rather than an automated "living robot".
"Animals with bigger brains are not necessarily more intelligent," said Professor Lars Chittka, from Queen Mary's Research Centre for Psychology, writing in the journal Current Biology.
"We know that body size is the single best way to predict an animal's brain size. However, contrary to popular belief, we can't say that brain size predicts their capacity for intelligent behaviour."
"In bigger brains we often don't find more complexity, just an endless repetition of the same neural circuits over and over; this might add detail to remembered images or sounds, but not add any degree of complexity. To use a computer analogy, bigger brains might in many cases be bigger hard drives, not necessarily better processors."
Differences in brain size between animals can be extreme. A whale's brain can weigh up to nine kilograms and be packed with more than 200 billion nerve cells. Human brains vary in weight between 1.25 kilograms and 1.45 kilograms, and have an estimated 85 billion neurons. In contrast, a honeybee's brain weighs one milligram and contains fewer than a million nerve cells.
Many size differences existed only in specific brain regions, the scientists pointed out. This was often the case in animals with highly developed senses, such as sight or hearing, or which have an ability to make very precise movements beyond the par of the Human.
Research suggested that bigger Mammals may need larger brains simply because there was more to control. More nerves were needed to move bigger muscles, for example. Much "advanced" thinking could be done with very limited numbers of neurons, the scientists claimed; hence there is a strong possibility of having an Intelligent Dinosaur, which was around at one time long ago prior to the emergence of the Mammals.
As for Ronovea of 'Reptilian-Brain-Stem' knowledge and Lizard ways she to look somewhat akin to a lithe and gymnastic 'Lara-Croft' adventuring as a Time-Travelling Palaeontologist amidst the Multiverse of Wonderland 'Matrix'.
GENIE UVALLI: The Forty-Seventh Spirit is Uvall, Vual or Uvalli. She is a Duchess Great Mighty and Strong. She appears as a beautiful dark skinned Genie Maiden dressed in a revealing costume as a sultry and sensual Arabian Nights Princess riding a mighty Dromedary over a desert of female forms. She speaks the ancient 'Egyptian tongue' whose voice is deeply sensuous. Her office is to procure the love of beautiful women, and to tell of all things Past, Present and to come via highly erotic vivid Dreams through whose symbolism she will reveal all through her passionate love making.
She is the Mistress of the Pyramidal Harem City of Women and is highly versed in Sexual Alchemy and Sensual Massage techniques, which she bestows upon her Master through vivid Lucid Dreams whereby she induces Out-of-Body Experiences in order to heal him of all maladies whether physical or otherwise to take her Master into the realms of Sensory Raptures and Retinal Delights. She also procures friendship between friends and foes as well as to fulfil all Wishes asked of her. It is said that her Master must obtain an ornate bottle or that of an antique brass oil lamp so that to place her sign upon engraved, which to thereby henceforth be her abode whereupon her Master to periodically ejaculate into it every full Moon so that to bind her unto him as his most loving and loyal Servant. She was of the Order of Potentates or Powers. She governs 37 Legions of Erotic Female Spirits like unto her self.
MAD MARCH HARE HAREM OF WONDERLAND SPRING ORGY
One can imaginatively equate Uvalli with the 'Mad March Hare' of character, which is most famous for appearing in the Tea Party scene in Lewis Carroll’s 'Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland;' Alice, hypothesises that, “The March Hare will be much the most interesting, and perhaps as this is May it won’t be raving mad, at least, not so mad as it was in March.”
“Mad as a March Hare” was a common phrase in Carroll’s time, and appears in John
Heywood’s collection of proverbs published in 1546. It is reported in ‘The
Annotated Alice’ by Martin Gardner that this proverb is based on popular belief about Hares’ behaviour at the beginning of the long breeding season, which lasts from February to September in Britain; early in the season, unreceptive Females often use their forelegs to repel overenthusiastic males. It used to be incorrectly believed that these bouts were between males fighting for breeding supremacy; whereby one in fact has a 'Mad Female March Hare' whom has a premenstrual headache, which is going insane!
Like the character’s famous friend of Mad Hatter, the March Hare feels compelled to always behave as though it is Tea-Time, which one conjecture as representing the season of Spring because the Hatter supposedly “murdered the time” whilst singing for the Queen of Hearts. The March Hare is briefly shown to live in a house where all the furniture and clocks are shown to be shaped like the head of a Hare, which leads Alice to believe that that the Hare is indeed “raving mad”. However for thousands of years the Hare has been featured in the mythology of many varied cultures and it is easy to see why for an image of a Hare (or Rabbit) appears on the Earth’s only natural satellite and it is visible to anyone who has looked at a full Moon. The cycle of the Moon has long been associated with human fertility especially that of Women hence the Moon acts as a 'Clock' whereby the 'Luna Hare' was regarded as being a representation of the Anglo-Saxon Moon Goddess, Eostre.
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People spoke of Moon-gazing Hares that looked up in the Moonlight to their 'home' in the night sky. The Luna Hare is often shown carrying an Egg, symbolically heralding the new cycle of life that comes with the Spring. The Moon Goddess gives her name to one of our culture’s most celebrated festivals, Easter. Although it has now been appropriated as a Christian holiday it still reflects its ancient roots by taking place on the Sunday following the first full Moon after the vernal equinox. For ancient communities that had struggled to survive the winter with limited food reserves, Eggs were often the first of nature’s bounty to save them from starvation. No wonder then that the Luna Hare was revered as a symbol of life and endowed with magical powers.
In some parts of Ireland Hares continue to be celebrated. The legendary ‘White Hare of Creggan’ can be seen at the An-Creagan Visitor Centre in County Tyrone and its White silhouette still adorns local houses wherefore one can understand more deeper the pre-Christian symbolism of Carroll’s 'Time-keeping' White Rabbit, which is similar to that of the 'Luna-Clock' March Hare. Hares feature in Irish folklore, and the Hare is older than Ireland’s culture itself. The Irish Hare has been immortalised as the animal gracing the Irish pre-decimal three pence piece; Hare mythology exists throughout almost every ancient culture and when the first settlers colonised Ireland, the Irish Hare was already an iconic figure. There are many examples in Celtic mythology of Hare associations with the divine Feminine, and storytellers still relate tales of ‘Women’ who can Shape-Shift into Hares. “Put a Mouse on the Moon and see the Hare” is an old Irish saying, which ties in with the 'Dormouse' at the Mad Hatters Tea-Party.
For example one can also find the Hare Goddess in the Finno-Ugric mythology, she is known as Kaltes-Ekwa (Ostyak, Kaltes Ankw) and is considered as being the Mother of the hero Mir-Susne-Hum and the wife of the God Num-Torum, who defeated her in heaven. She was also a Moon Goddess associated with the month of April; a birth giving Goddess (she is called upon by Women in Child-Birth); Goddess of Fate; Goddess of Dawn and a Shape-Shifter, whom is often shown manifesting as a Hare. The Hare is often seen as an intermediary between Luna deities and humans, so the appearance of Kaltes in this form indicates her accessibility to her people. Kaltes is known as a Fertility Goddess and a Goddess of Rejuvenation. She is called upon by Women in Childbirth, for she is especially venerated as a promoter of the Beginning of the Life Cycle. Although she is somewhat feared because she can determine people’s Destinies, she is mostly revered for her gentle wisdom as well as being perceived as a compassionate guide into the mysteries of life.
One will find that throughout the world, there are numerous long-spoken ancient tales about the Hare; from the Americas to the Far East, from Africa to Europe, the Hare is embedded in the folk myths of our ancestors. The Hare is primarily associated with the mystique of the Moon, the celestial skies, the Sun, with fertility, the Dawn, cunning and bravery. There is evidence of Hare symbolism in ancient pottery, coins, seals, hieroglyphs and in oral history. The most striking thing about the mythology of Hares is the degree of their commonality across the globe; similar to the fact that most ancient cultures have a flood myth, most also seem to have Hare mythology.
What is it about the Hare that led to this ongoing mythology, which invariably inspired Carroll’s creation of the 'Mad March Hare' as well as that of the 'White Rabbit'? We will probably never know for certain; however, the fact that wild Hares lived in close proximity to people, perform unique and uninhibited courtship dances, are extremely 'Sexually Active in the Spring' and are active at Night, were all probable factors in the Hare myths survival throughout the ages especially since Hare symbolism is very much associated with Feminine Sexuality and Fertility hence that of Goddess worship.
One will find that the Harem Hare Succubus Uvalli is always gagging for a good 'Luna' leap around of Wet-Dream tangle amidst the straw, however, when she gets a 'Blood-Moon' Headache one will find ones self with a Maddening Nightmare upon ones hands!
