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Dune‚ a science-fiction novel written in 1965 by Frank Herbert‚ follows the story of Paul Atreides‚ a young man whose family accepts stewardship of the planet Arrakis for the interstellar empire. The planet is a harsh desert wasteland that is sparsely populated but is the only source of a valuable resource known as spice. As such‚ many of the empires factions desire control of the planet and are often at odds with each other. Pauls father‚ Leto Atreides‚ was betrayed by the emperor and a rival faction‚ setting Paul off on a journey to avenge his father. How does this story connect with Greek mythology?Leto: Parent of the Divine TwinsLatona (Leto) and Her Children‚ Apollo and Diana (Artemis)‚ by William Henry Rinehart‚ 1874. Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art‚ New YorkLeto Atreides was the Duke of the ocean planet Caladan and the father of Paul Atreides. His role in Dune is mostly to serve as a plot device‚ his death being the catalyst that sets his son off on a quest for vengeance.However‚ Leto is also the father of Paul and Alia. This clearly connects him with the Greek goddess Leto‚ after whom he was named. In Greek myth‚ Leto was the mother of the divine twins Apollo (god of prophecy‚ among others) and Artemis. While Paul and Alia are not twins‚ they each gain supernatural powers through their exposure to spice and the Waters of Life.Paul AtreidesDrawing of Apollo slaying Python‚ Anonymous‚ 17th century CE. Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art‚ New YorkPaul Atreides is the son of Leto Atreides‚ the Duke of Caladan‚ and Lady Jessica‚ a member of a powerful organization of women with mystic powers called the Bene Gesserit. Paul shares several similarities with the Greek god Apollo. For starters‚ one of his parents is named after Apollos divine mother‚ Leto‚ and his own name is a shortening of Apollo.Pauls journey throughout Dune also mirrors Apollos. The son of Zeus‚ Apollo is an oracular god with the power to see the future. In one of Apollos traditional myths‚ the god slays the great serpent Python. There are multiple versions of the myth. However in one of the most popular‚ Apollo kills the Python because the serpent had tormented his mother while she was pregnant with him. After killing the serpent‚ Apollo set up his shrine‚ known as Delphi‚ and became the preeminent oracular god in Greek culture.In Dune‚ Paul has the gift of prophecy and near godlike prescience of the future. In order to establish himself‚ he must master a giant serpentine creature. For Apollo‚ it was the Python‚ and for Paul‚ sandworms‚ both when he rides one as a rite of passage in Fremen culture and when he drinks the Water of Life‚ a liquid produced by young sandworms at the moment of death. Surviving this ordeal serves as proof that he is the Fremen messianic figure‚ Lisan al-Gaib.Atreides: Sons of AtreusTimothe Chalamet as Paul Atreides and Rebecca Ferguson as Lady Jessica in Dennis Villeneuves Dune‚ 2021. Source: bubblegumclub.co.zaThe family name of Atreides takes its root from the ancient Greek patronymic meaning son of Atreus‚ Atreus being a hero of Greek mythology. His descendants were collectively known as the Atreidai‚ with the most famous being Agamemnon‚ the mythical king of Mycenae from whom the family in Dune claims descent. Agamemnon is known for his role in the Iliad‚ the ancient epic recounting the final weeks of the Trojan War. He is also the titular character in Aeschylus 5th-century Agamemnon. The play was the first in Aeschylus trilogy titled Oresteia and tells the story of Agamemnons return from Troy‚ his subsequent death‚ and the curse of familial violence that afflicts his family. This curse is commonly known as the curse of Atreus.The Curse of AtreusTantalus‚ by Guilio Sanuto‚ ca.1557-1570. Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art‚ New YorkThe curse of Atreus is a hereditary curse of murder‚ cannibalism‚ and adultery that afflicts the descendants of Tantalus and reasserts itself with each new generation. It afflicts Pelops‚ Atreus‚ Thyestes‚ and Agamemnon and ends with Orestes.The curse began with Tantalus‚ the progenitor of the House of Atreus. He sought to test the omniscience of the gods‚ and so he killed his own son‚ Pelops‚ to feed him to them. Most of the gods immediately knew what had happened and didnt partake‚ but Demeter‚ distracted by the abduction of her daughter Persephone‚ ate a piece. As punishment‚ Tantalus was cast into the underworld‚ where he would spend eternity standing in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree. Whenever he reached to grab a fruit‚ the branches would rise beyond his reach‚ and when he would bend to drink‚ the water would recede. The gods took pity on the butchered Pelops and so brought him back to life. However‚ Tantaluss sinful murder and attempt to trick the gods would haunt his family which would hence become entrapped in a circle of vengeance and murder that would end with the myth of Orestes.A still from Dennis Villeneuves Dune‚ 2021. Source: dunemovie.netIn Dune‚ Paul is bound by duty to avenge his fathers death‚ following a bitter cycle of murder and revenge against the Harkonnen family. This cycle has repeated for millennia and reasserts itself with Paul‚ only to end when the last member of a family is dead or the two families have made peace. But with each new murder‚ peace becomes increasingly more impossible. With the revelation that Lady Jessica is a Harkonnen‚ Pauls vengeance for his father requires the deaths of his grandfather and cousins.Paul is also conflicted with his role as the Fremens messianic figure Lisan al-Gaib. They believe that he is going to lead them on a jihad against the empire that has oppressed them for so long. Due to Pauls prophetic visions‚ he knows that this future will result in the deaths of billions‚ but he also sees that if he doesnt lead them‚ the death toll could be exponentially worse. At the end of 2024s Dune: Part Two‚ Paul makes his decision.

Scotlands new hate crime law already is demonstrating how it will be used to squash dissent and free speech.The so-called Hate Crime and Public Order Act‚ which went into force in Scotland on April Fools Day‚ adds age‚ disability‚ religion‚ sexual orientation‚ and transgender identity to a list of protected classes.The law provides for various potential punishments‚ including jail time.The new law has been fiercely criticized by author J.K. Rowling‚ creator of the Harry Potter series‚ and many others who rightly see it as an attack on the freedom of speech.Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf said the bill is about protecting people from a rising tide of hatred. But who will protect the peoples God-given right to free speech?When asked about activists who are creating lists of other people to target when the law goes into effect‚ Yousaf said that the only ones who should worry are those who are stirring up hatred.But who decides what exactly stirring up hatred really means?Siobhian Brown‚ Scotlands minister for victims and community safety‚ was asked whether intentionally misgendering someone would be considered a crime under the law. At first she said‚ Not at all‚ then continued: It could be reported and it could be investigated. Whether or not the police would think it was criminal is up to Police Scotland.Very reassuring.The response to the law has been predictable.Scottish police reportedly received more than 7‚000 online reports of offences in the first week since the introduction of a new hate crime law.Police have called the law an unsustainable burden on their force. Frankly‚ Im more concerned with the burden this law and ones like it are placing on the fraying threads holding up the fleeting notion that those living under such measures really live in a free society.I dont buy the premise that this law was created just to protect the vulnerable and that the Scottish people have nothing to worry about.Lets call this what it is: a secular‚ authoritarian blasphemy law‚ as my Scottish friend Madeline Kearns described it in National Review.My feeling is that this legislation was created by left-wing politicians to be a weapon in the hands of their activist base. The institutional-activist partnership is part of the same perverse circulatory system‚ and the pols are simply putting another prop in place to secure their power to control thought and discourse.Despite a flood of evidence that the entire gender transition movement is based on lies and false premises‚ it nevertheless remains the dominant ethos in the Wests elite cultural and political institutions.These institutions dont rely on science or popularity‚ but are instead bound together by a particular globalist ideology and worldview. Whether one calls this NextGen Marxism‚ as my colleague Mike Gonzalez has in his new book‚ or DEI‚ or simply the Left‚ the ethos is undeniably dominant in the Wests most elite circles.Thats not changing‚ yet.What is changing is that there is now a more aggressive‚ one might call it populist‚ counter to this worldview thats growing against our farcical pseudo-elite.This movement is broad and includes many intellectuals as well as ordinary people. Its caused a serious shakeup in Left/Right politics as some liberals‚ like Rowling and Bari Weiss‚ have moved to the Rightespecially in their criticism of the transgender narrative that places ideology over reality.Scotlands new hate crime law is intended to suppress the counter movement‚ to create a climate of fear where people take a serious risk by speaking up and telling the truth.The Wests cultural elites cant have people willing to say that the emperor has no clothes or that a man cant become a woman with impunity. That threatens the regime‚ the interlocking lies that the elites tell themselves and use to secure their positions within its institutional tendrils.So‚ what the cultural elites are doing is what plenty of other authoritarian and totalitarian societies have done in the past. They are making the cost of telling the truth high enough that a general mass of people will be afraid to declare it publicly or even privately.They are dressing up these dictatorial designs in the language of preventing hate and by making the penalties seem low enough that they dont immediately illicit images of other notorious‚ oppressive states of the past.Hey‚ dont worry‚ we wont prosecute you for misgendering someone‚ yet. Unless the police and the courts say so‚ of course‚ but thats not my department.Thats effectively what Scottish politicians and other proponents of transgender hate crime laws are saying.Dont buy it.Anti-speech laws to intimidate dissenters arent the final solution to the problem; they instead are intended to establish a government-mandated norm of what is considered acceptable speech. These laws are a firm but insistent swat directed at anyone who might be thinking of telling the truth rather than spouting the party-approved narrative.More repressive laws come later if the people dont comply.Sure‚ most cases of alleged hate speech under this law wont lead to arrests or significant fines. At least for now. But how many people are going to be willing to speak the truth when theres a chance they could get arrested‚ face a lawsuit‚ or even end up in jail?Most people arent Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The creators of these laws know that and are counting on the probability that most arent even a Rowling‚ or a Riley Gaines‚ or a Ray Shelton either.Thats why these small threats to liberty must be met and defeated now. Now is the time to refuse to live by lies while the stakes still arent quite gulags.We must‚ like Thomas Jefferson‚ swear hostility to every tyranny over the mind of man.In the United States we are fortunate to have the First Amendment‚ and that may at least slow down this rush to control speech and thought. But that wont keep back the tide of suffocating‚ increasingly government-mandated groupthink forever. Little islands of liberty arent good enough.Although the gender transition ideology seems strongest in the United States‚ my feeling is that if it can be beaten‚ it will be beaten here.Refuse to live by lies while the law is still on our side‚ and create laws to protect the truth rather than suppress the truth to create victims. Thats the way we will preserve liberty and thwart the coming of a new Dark Age.The post Scotlands New Transgender Hate Crime Law Already Showing How It Leads to Tyranny appeared first on The Daily Signal.