{"id":8948,"date":"2020-09-25T16:26:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T20:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/?p=8948"},"modified":"2020-10-26T16:04:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T20:04:20","slug":"the-reverend-mother-gaius-helen-mohiam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/2020\/the-reverend-mother-gaius-helen-mohiam","title":{"rendered":"The Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Continuing my DUNE fan art series, here’s the Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam. She is the terrifying sex nun who tutored Paul’s mother Jessica (and is maybe her mom), a prime mover in the history that leads up to the events of DUNE. It seems likely that she is at least a century old, maybe older, and shows no inclination to stop living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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The vision that I have of the Bene Gesserit, her order dedicated to a vast eugenic project dedicated to producing a controllable \u00fcbermensch through selective breeding, is based in part on Frank Herbert’s Catholic hangups about women and sex, of course. But also they are so completely a part of the wide-reading Imperial (and shadow-imperial) power structure, I wanted to draw on imagery of mighty empire beyond European influences. So her mitre is Egyptian-inspired, her cowl is like a European monk’s her dress is Chinese, her shoes are Japanese, and the bodice is a combination of early Japanese armor and the Chimpanzee-caste apron from Planet of the Apes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course someone who intends to control not only the destiny, but very feelings, of people will wear a veil. The veil is sufficiently transparent that she can still lie with her expressions, giving the viewer the impression that they understand her true intent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wheels within wheels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this moment, she’s on Caladan, leaving the Bene Gesserit convent to test Paul with the Gom Jabbar. She knows that this is a delicate time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Modular systems are a function of industrial society. But do people of The Fifth World still know how to agree to standards? With their acute interest in efficiency, I think they might have carried that lesson forward!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Continuing my DUNE fan art series, here’s the Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam. She is the terrifying sex nun who tutored Paul’s mother Jessica (and is maybe her mom), a prime mover in the history that leads up to the events of DUNE. It seems likely that she is at least a century old, maybe … Continue reading “The Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":8950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[220,218,221],"class_list":["post-8948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-set-of-all-sets-that-do-not-include-themselves","tag-bene-gesserit","tag-dune","tag-gaius-helen-mohiam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8951,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8948\/revisions\/8951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}