In fact, when Leto meets Hwi Noree, the Ixian ambassador obviously bred and trained to charm him, he realizes " that part of her education had been conducted by the Bene Gesserit.

Waff realizes that the pearl of Leto II's awareness that each sandworm carries had foreseen the Honored Matre attack on Rakis and buried themselves deep beneath the planet's surface.

A measure of what a primal goddess Leto was can be recognized in her father and mother.

Paul's son Leto II ( born of Chani, daughter of Liet-Kynes, and Paul ) is also a Kwisatz Haderach ; seeing the same future, Leto decides to do what his father could not.

He goes to the sietch Jacurutu under what he believes are Jessica's orders to test that Leto II has not fallen to Abomination.

Leto notes that only nineteen of " his " Duncans have survived long enough to die what is considered a " natural death.

Like the others before him, Duncan is appalled at what Atreides rule has become, but Leto appoints him as the head of his otherwise all-female military, the Fish Speakers.

Assuming the responsibility of mediator between the two sides, and with Erasmus ' willing participation ( the robot being left as the leader and controlling-force of the thinking machines ), Duncan does something similar to Bene-Gesserit Sharing with the robot ; possibly along with what seems to be a physical-bonding ( similar to what Leto II did with the sandtrout ) into something of a human-machine hybrid.

Malky's purpose is to get Leto to turn on his holy creation, but he fails because what the Ixians don't realize is that Leto, more than anyone, knows the blasphemy he has created.

Leto planned to wed Hwi in what remains of an old Fremen village near the former Sietch Tabr, but changes his mind at the last instant to use the Museum Fremen's Tuono Village, the place where Moneo had sent Siona and Duncan in an attempt to keep the peace and keep Duncan alive, safe from the God Emperor's wrath.

* Babye Leto – what does it mean?

The name of Apollo's mother Leto has Lydian origin, and she was worshipped on the coasts of Asia Minor.

When Zeus ' wife Hera discovered that Leto was pregnant and that Zeus was the father, she banned Leto from giving birth on " terra firma ".

Mythographers agree that Artemis was born first and then assisted with the birth of Apollo, or that Artemis was born one day before Apollo, on the island of Ortygia and that she helped Leto cross the sea to Delos the next day to give birth to Apollo.

Niobe, the queen of Thebes and wife of Amphion, boasted of her superiority to Leto because she had fourteen children ( Niobids ), seven male and seven female, while Leto had only two.

All accounts agree, however, that she was the daughter of Zeus and Leto and that she was the twin sister of Apollo.

A Queen of Thebes and wife of Amphion, Niobe boasted of her superiority to Leto because while she had fourteen children ( Niobids ), seven boys and seven girls, Leto had only one of each.

According to some because Python had attempted to rape Leto while she was pregnant with Apollo and Artemis.

When Hera discovered that Leto was pregnant and that Zeus was the father, she banned Leto from giving birth on terra-firma, or the mainland, or any island at sea.

Another variation states that Artemis was born one day before Apollo, on the island of Ortygia and that she helped Leto cross the sea to Delos the next day to give birth to Apollo.

When Hera, the most conservative of goddesses — for she had the most to lose in changes to the order of nature — discovered that Leto was pregnant and that Zeus was the father, she realized that the offspring would cement the new order.

Antoninus Liberalis is not alone in hinting that Leto came down from the land of the Hyperboreans in the guise of a she-wolf, or that she sought out the " wolf-country " of Lycia, formerly called Tremilis, which she renamed to honour wolves that had befriended her for her denning.

It is remarkable that Leto brought forth Artemis, the elder twin, without travail, as Callimachus wrote, as if she were merely revealing another manifestation of herself.

Another version, in the Homeric Hymn to Delian Apollo and in an Orphic hymn, states that Artemis was born before Apollo, on the island of Ortygia, and that she helped Leto cross the sea to Delos the next day to give birth there to Apollo.

Veneration of a local Leto is attested at Phaistos ( 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 .< ref > Noted by R. F.

Amphion's wife Niobe had many children, but had become arrogant and because of this she insulted the goddess Leto, who had only two children, Artemis and Apollo.

She was already mentioned in Homer's Iliad which relates her prideful hubris, for which she was punished by Leto, who sent Apollo and Artemis, with the loss of all her children, and her nine days of abstention from food during which time her children lay unburied.

which became identified with Delos, which was the only piece of earth to give refuge to the fugitive Leto when, pregnant with Zeus's children, she was pursued by vengeful Hera.

Meliboea was one of Niobe and Amphion's fourteen children ( the Niobids ), and the only one ( or one of two ) spared when Artemis and Apollo killed the Niobids in retribution for Niobe's insult to their mother Leto, bragging that she had many children and Leto had only two.

Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto, and has a twin sister, the chaste huntress Artemis.

An account by Callimachus has it that Hera forbade Leto to give birth on either terra firma ( the mainland ) or on an island.

Paul's twin young children, Leto II and Ghanima, sharing his prescience, have concluded that their guardian Alia has succumbed to possession by one of her ancestors and fear that a similar fate awaits them.

A band of Fremen outlaws capture Leto and force him to undergo the spice trance at the suggestion of one of Alia's agents, who has infiltrated the group.

The Preacher and Leto return to the capital to confront Alia who has the Preacher murdered, revealing his true identity.

As instructed, Yueh takes Leto prisoner ; however, suspecting that the Baron has already killed Wanna, Yueh provides the captive Leto with a fake tooth filled with poisonous gas as a means to kill the Baron ( though Leto would die as well ).

The Baron, Duke Leto, and Jessica herself are unaware that Jessica is secretly the Baron's daughter or that he has even fathered one ; in the year 10, 176, the Baron's grandson Paul is born to Leto and Jessica.

The Niobe narrative appears in Ovid's Metamorphoses, ( Book VI ) where Latona ( Leto ) has demanded the women of Thebes to go to her temple and burn incense.

Koios and Phoibe marry and have Leto, Asteria ( who later marries Perses and has Hekate ).

In the attack, he learns that his son Leto has been killed in a Sardaukar raid.

Leto has decided otherwise, and soon begins the long transformation into a sandworm.

" He has taken the Bene Gesserit breeding program from them and uses it for his own mysterious purposes, and their limited spice supply is subject to their obedience to Leto, and his whims.

Paul Atreides refers to him as " Gurney the valorous " in Dune, and Duke Leto comments that Paul has named Gurney well.

She has assumed power as Holy Regent in the name of Paul's children, Leto II and Ghanima.

God Emperor of Dune ( 1981 ) reintroduces Idaho as a serial ghola: Leto II has ruled as a sandworm-human hybrid for 3, 500 years, and has continually had an Idaho ghola to serve him.

Leto also reveals that he has repeatedly used his Duncan gholas in his breeding program to genetically improve the Atreides line.

Emperor Shaddam IV both admires and dislikes Leto, after Leto makes a bluffing attempt to blackmail the Emperor into intervening on his behalf in a case in the Landsraad court, in which he has submitted to a Trial by Forfeiture to prove that he has not fired on a Tleilaxu ship inside a Heighliner in foldspace.