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'''Mahdi''' was the name used by the [[Fremen]] to describe their saviour in their messianic legend. The term equated roughly to ''"The one who will lead us to paradise"''. |
'''Mahdi''' was the name used by the [[Fremen]] to describe their saviour in their messianic legend. The term equated roughly to ''"The one who will lead us to paradise"''. |
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Revision as of 04:59, 14 February 2008
Original Dune
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Mahdi was the name used by the Fremen to describe their saviour in their messianic legend. The term equated roughly to "The one who will lead us to paradise".
In conjunction with the wider Fremen legend of salvation, the Mahdi was also known to be an off-worlder (i.e. not a native of Arrakis), and the child of a Bene Gesserit. Thus, after Paul Atreides fell in with the Fremen and first displayed his prescience and fighting skills, many Fremen gradually began to see the young Duke as the Mahdi.
The legend associated with the Mahdi was at least partially influenced by a long-standing Panoplia Propheticus by the Bene Gesserit's Missionaria Protectiva wing.