Tag: frank-herbert
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Religious Manipulation and Political Power: the Case of The Oracle of Delphi and Bene Gesserit from Dune Films

“The Delphic oracle, which for modern poets – Yeats, for example – can conjure up mystic romantic visions, was for Sophocles and his audience, a fact of life, an institution as present and solid, as uncompromising… as the Vatican is for us. States and individuals alike consulted it as a matter of course about important…