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Veneration of a local Leto is attested at Phaistos [127] (where it is purported that she gave birth to Apollo and Artemis at the islands known today as the Paximadia (also known as Letoai in ancient Crete) and at Lato, which bore her name. [128] As Leto Phytia she was a mother-deity.
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
The name Jesus (Yeshua) appears to have been in use in the Land of Israel at the time of the birth of Jesus. [ 2 ] [ 19 ] Moreover, Philo 's reference in Mutatione Nominum item 121 to Joshua ( Ἰησοῦς ) meaning salvation ( σωτηρία ) of the Lord indicates that the etymology of Joshua was known outside Israel. [ 20 ]
Leto is killed, and Paul and his Bene Gesserit mother Jessica flee into the desert and are presumed dead. A crisis on Arrakis begins when the mysterious Muad'Dib, in actuality Paul Atreides, emerges as a leader of the native Fremen tribes rebelling against the rule of the Harkonnens. With the production of the all-important spice disrupted ...
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).
Relatives identified them as a mother and daughter — Naheda Anton, 71, and her daughter, Samr Anton, 58 — and said that after the older woman was hit, her daughter tried to pull her to safety ...
Paul and the Atreides come to the desert planet Arrakis, but Paul's father Duke Leto is soon killed by the Harkonnens and Paul and his mother Lady Jessica are forced to flee into the desert. They are reluctantly taken in by a tribe of the planet's native Fremen, and Chani is the Fremen woman put in charge of protecting and guiding Paul.
The fact that the Atreides-Harkonnen feud has persisted from the time of Dune: Prophecy to Dune suggests that the rivalry is essential to Herbert's universe. Yet the origins of the rift go largely ...