God

Mixed Canonicity

This article or section refers to elements from both Original Dune and Expanded Dune.

God, under various names, was a mythical entity, the Supreme Being of various religions of the Known Universe throughout history. During the Butlerian Jihad, Iblis Ginjo commented that with humanity's expansion out into the galaxy, there were not nearly as many Gods as there used to be, just more ways to worship them. A young Norma Cenva thought of the Golden Mean as a manifestation of the Earth mother Gaia or Master Creator God.

Erasmus once suggested that Omnius was a God of Machines. Years later, Omnius Prime convinced himself that he was the one true God of the Universe; according to his analyses, and the projections Erasmus had performed for him, he decided that he fit the definition, as he held ultimate knowledge and ultimate power.

The various Buddislamic sects orginally worshipped Buddallah as their God, but by the time the Zensunni Wanderers had become the Fremen people they worshipped various Old Gods, the chief of which was Shai-Hulud. Siona Atreides later prayed to Shai-Hulud and the Old Gods while running for her life. Meanwhile, the Zensunni and Zensufi faiths preserved in the Great Belief of the Bene Tleilax came to simply refer to their deity by the traditional simple term "God".

By the last years of the Corrino Empire, the most widespread concept of God was the ten-thousand-year-old male-female-neuter trinity accepted as Supreme Being in Orange Catholicism. During the days of the Atreides Empire, Paul Atreides originally was known as a Mahdi, but practically revered as godhead. His son Leto Atreides II was known as the God Emperor and seen as incarnation of Shai-Hulud.

Other Gods inlcuded the Pan-Hindu Overlords of the Seventh Circle, the Deislamic Force and the God of Navachristianity.