Bene Gesserit Origin - Dune's Mysterious & Creepy Witches Who Have Manipulated Every Important Being

The Bene Gesserit Origins - Everything you need to know about the Sisterhood of Witches
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[nathanhickson]

The Bene Gesserit are not religious (although they mimic a religious organization.) they are focussed on politics. This was mentioned in Dune and it came as a surprise when Paul revealed that knowledge.

[OmarAbdulMalikDHEdMPASPACPAPro]

All of these concepts about AI, decades before AI!😮 Herbert was really something!

[bridgetboyle]

OK you also got wrong how the Reverend mothers work “granted” their power. It wasn’t granted they had to face a life and death trial to convert a toxic substance in their bodies and just threw that spice agony become a reverend mother who had access to her entire genetic histories memories. That was how they got a

[theronin]

There is no "the future", only potential possibilities. And didn't the Bene G's begin on Rossak with Norma Cenva (who actually is the most important female character throughout the entire series, as she assists Tio Holzman, helps start the BG's on Rossak, starts the Guild Navs, helps start Venport-the forerunner of Choam. Kills Xerxes, and vanishes into another universe taking Omnius with her. Perhaps, SHE is the most important woman in Dune history, save only maybe for Jessica! 🤔🎙👍🏾

[KirelRed]

If you haven't read the expanded universe stories, especially about the Butlerian Jihad and the fight against AI - you really should. It makes everything that happens in the Dune story, more epic.

[ghost]

I loved the sound of the Voice in the Lynch version.

[WilliamGreen]

The sisterhood doesn't see the future. They see within.

[hockeygirl]

Yeah redundancy there’s so much I can’t even finish it

[avk-kqgv]

Norma Cenva is at the heart of the movement which became the Bene Gesserit, she was also a sort of mother to the Spacing Guild. Norma was a genius who used to live on the planet Kolhar, later she lived on Rossak. She was involved with Venkee Industries, see folding space and special space programmes.

[darkishphoenix]

when you said "untucked" rather than untapped potential I started imagining them as an order of drag queens and honestly not mad about it. Though I wouldn't see the need for tucking with those flowing robes

[waynesimpson]

This novel is from the 1960s; it's more concerned with enlightenment, heightened senses. So "witches" (although used as a pejorative in text) is a misnomer.

[davidtatro]

Ultimate youtube irony: using AI to (very badly) voice a video about an organization created in the wake of a jihad waged specifically to rid the universe of AI.

Anyone else find it hilarious that the AI can't pronounce "Butlerian"?

[dougbrooks]

Their whole order is predicated on preparing humans for the return of the thinking machines and to defeat them.

[TheMimiSard]

I feel this video does not make it clear how truth sense works - Bene Gesserit are trained in being able to observe and examine even the most minute details. This means that when concentrating this observation on people, they can learn a lot from just watching others under various situations, and be able to identify signs of lying. This is not an unrealistic thing even IRL, as being able to analyse people's behaviour is a thing that can be done in reality. Dune just takes a real ability to an extreme.

The Prana Bindu trainign is why they can control things like body temperature, heart rate, breathing, and even fertility. Through the nerve control they can control their own hormonal outputs, and thus if they can control hormones, they can control fertility and also sex of the resulting babies. The whole of the genetic engineering plan is done - quite frankly - by sending Sisters to fuck men to get pregnant. As long as the resulting child has no major faults (Count Fenring is a minor character who is an example of that - not disposed of, but raised as a useful person in society, as he became a close friend of the Emperor, and his wife was the Sister who seduced Feyd Ruatha to save his genetic material) they will either be a respectably trained young noble, or be trained as a full Sister to further the plan. The Imperial Princesses are an example of the first (the Emperor's wife was instructed to only have females, so the Kwisatz Haderach could take over the imperial throne), or Lady Jessica, who was a Sister born by a Reverent Mother and raised in the Bene Gesserit, to be given as concubine to House Atreides, so she could breed her part in the plan (she was intructed to breed a girl who was intended to be matched with Feyd Ruatha, but Jessica fell in love and defied her orders to have a boy for Leto).

[jamesnoe]

If you want Dune. Read frank Herbert's 6 books. All else isn't worth your time.

[HabibAkili]

Bene Latin ??? I beg to disagree ...beni - djezirat or Banat- ul- djazeerat.... daughters of al djazeerat... with djazeerat arabic name of the Arabic peninsula

[grantponciano]

If the original plan was to join an atreides daughter with a harkonnen son, wouldn't that mean that both lines only had half of the needed genetics to make the final Kwisatz Haderach? Or am i missing something?

[rodneykelly]

The main problem I have with how the Bene Gesserit are portrayed, is that no one in their right mind, would let those creepy witches anywhere near their leadership. If the Bene Gesserit were presented with a more nurturing and supportive persona, they won't be seen as a threat.

[gingerredshoes]

Does anyone else find irony in the AI voice narrating this video talking about the Butlerian jyhsd?

[bridgetboyle]

You totally Gor where is it sisterhoid misstep wrong. it isn’t because of Leto that they missed steps and lost their shortening. It is because Jessica gavee birth to a male, Paul, and then this QH was born two generations before he should happen. You got the honored Matre wrong too. They Are a combination of a fish speakers that the Godhead, Leto’s, female army, and the remainder of the Bene geseritt.