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The Homeric Hymn 3 to Apollo is the oldest extant account of Leto's wandering and birth of her children, but it is only concerned with the birth of Apollo, and treats Artemis as an afterthought; in fact the hymn does not even state that Leto's children are twins, and they are given different birthplaces (he in Delos, she in Ortygia). [31]
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 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).
Coerced by the Baron to save his wife from torture, Yueh disables the shields of the Atreides fortress and delivers a drugged Leto to the Baron, but also provides Leto with a false tooth filled with poison gas. Leto bites down on the tooth in the Baron's presence, but the gas only manages to kill Leto and the Baron's twisted Mentat, Piter De ...
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 ...