This is one of the seminal works in all of literature, and everyone should read it. We strongly recommend reading Frank Herbert’s original novel Dune first. And with six novels written by Frank himself as well as 13 novels and nine short stories written by us-covering approximately 15,000 years of history in the Dune canon-it can be difficult to figure out where to start.

The Bene Gesserit drew patterns of Old Earth on many planets, sometimes only a faint sketch, but sometimes succeeding, like on Chapterhouse.Dune is not only a classic novel, but a vast universe created by Frank Herbert. The God-Emperor Leto Atreides II, by the time of whom Earth no longer existed, through his ancestral memory, recalled many things from Terran history, including Torquemada, the Romans and Greeks, the conquests of Assur-Nasir-Apli, musicians such as Mozart and Bach, Napoleon, Islam, and the Jesuits. Scytale also knew of Earth and mentioned the Golden Age and the camels of the planet. Paul Atreides suggested Stilgar look into historical Terran references found in the Golden Age of Earth including Genghis Khan and Adolf Hitler for a comparison to Paul. Ghanima and Leto Atreides II, in a private moment between them, spoke French, implied to be nearly an extinct language. It was where the Commission of Ecumenical Translators converged to assemble the Orange Catholic Bible after the Butlerian Jihad. Does anyone remember these names and places now? I have given you enough clues: try to name the planet.' ―The Stolen Journals Įarth, also called Old Earth, Terra, or Old Terra, was the third planet located in the Sol star system. The conquests which began with Assur-nasi-apli carried arms into Media and later into Israel, Damascus, Edom, Arpad, Babylon and Umlias. His son recieved tribute from the Shuites, from Tyre, Sidon, Gebel and even from Jehu, son of Omri, whose very name struck terror into thousands.

His conquests included the Uramia Lake region which led him for Commagene and Khabur. Planet Earth ' Our ancestor, Assur-nasir-apli, who was known as the cruellest of the cruel, seized the throne by slaying his own father and starting the reign of the sword. There are separate pages for this subject as it appears in the other canons such as Earth in Expanded Dune and Earth in the Dune Encyclopedia

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