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Leto Atreides is the name of three characters in the fictional Dune universe created by Frank Herbert: Leto I Atreides, father of Paul "Muad'Dib" Atreides; Leto II Atreides the Elder, first son of Paul Atreides and Chani; killed in his infancy; Leto II Atreides (God Emperor of Dune), son of Paul Atreides and Chani and twin to Ghanima
Leto II Atreides (/ ˈ l eɪ t oʊ ə ˈ t r eɪ ɪ d iː z /) [1] is a fictional character from the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. Born at the end of Dune Messiah (1969), Leto is a central character in Children of Dune (1976) and is the title character of God Emperor of Dune (1981).
Jesus (/ ˈ dʒ iː z ə s /) is a masculine given name derived from Iēsous (Ἰησοῦς; Iesus in Classical Latin) the Ancient Greek form of the Hebrew name Yeshua (ישוע). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] As its roots lie in the name Isho in Aramaic and Yeshua in Hebrew, it is etymologically related to another biblical name, Joshua .
Leto found the barren floating island of Delos, still bearing its archaic name of Asterios, which was neither mainland nor a real island and gave birth there, promising the island wealth from the worshippers who would flock to the obscure birthplace of the splendid god who was to come.
In God Emperor of Dune, Frank Herbert analyzes the cyclical patterns of human society, as well as humanity's evolutionary drives.Using his ancestral memories, Leto II has knowledge of the entirety of human history and is able to recall the effects and patterns of tyrannical institutions, from the Babylonian empire through to the Jesuits on ancient Earth, and thus builds an empire existing as a ...
Leto is a goddess in Greek mythology. Leto or LETO may also refer to: As a name: Leto (surname), a list of people so named; Leto (rapper), French rapper part of the French hip hop duo PSO Thug; Leto Atreides (disambiguation), three fictional characters in Frank Herbert's Dune universe; Leto, a synonym of the genus Helogyne of the family Asteraceae
Atreides may refer to: Descendants of Greek mythical figure Atreus, especially: Agamemnon; Menelaus; House Atreides, a fictional noble family in Frank Herbert's Dune universe Alia Atreides; Ghanima Atreides; Leto II Atreides; Paul Atreides; Atreides, a 1980 album by Yannis Zouganelis
Thus the name Chariclo (Chariklō) could be syllabified as either cha-ri-klō, with an open penult and stress on the cha (normal Latin), or cha-rik-lō, with a closed penult and stress on the rik (an optional poetic pronunciation), so both / ˈ k ær ɪ k l oʊ / KARR-ik-loh and / k ə ˈ r ɪ k l oʊ / kə-RIK-loh are acceptable pronunciations ...