A Fremen community.
Sietch Quotes in Dune
The Dune quotes below are all either spoken by Sietch or refer to Sietch. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Book 2, Part 2
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And Paul, walking behind Chani, felt that a vital moment had passed him, that he had missed an essential decision and was now caught up in his own myth. He knew he had seen this place before, experienced it in a fragment of prescient dream on faraway Caladan, but details of the place were being filled in now that he had not seen. He felt a new sense of wonder at the limits of his gift. It was as though rode within the wave of time, sometimes in its trough, sometimes on a crest—and all around him the other waves lifted and fell, revealing and then hiding what they bore on their surface.
And through it all, the wild jihad still loomed ahead of him, the violence and the slaughter.
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Sietch Term Timeline in Dune
The timeline below shows where the term Sietch appears in Dune. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Book 1, Part 12
...between House Atreides and the Fremen, Stilgar proposes that Idaho becomes a member of his sietch (Fremen community). Leto and Idaho agree to Stilgar’s suggestion, with Idaho taking on a dual...
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Book 2, Part 9
Before the group leaves for Stilgar’s sietch (community gathering space), he gives them each a kerchief that will identify them as Stilgar’s...
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Book 2, Part 10
...people working under a distant cliff—they are his Fremen, and his group should reach the sietch that night.
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Book 2, Part 11
...respect his actions now, with Stilgar bestowing the honor of a Fremen name on Paul—Stilgar’s sietch will know the young man by his secret name “Usul,” meaning the strength at the...
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Book 2, Part 14
Stilgar’s tribe travel in near silence to their sietch in moonlight. Chani advises Paul to lower his hood in a certain manner to shield...
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...in their new environment, they realize that Chani has disappeared ever since they entered the sietch.
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...tribes across the desert; Harah states that the Padishah Emperor’s soldiers will only find empty sietchs and explosives in the sand.
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...machinery. He is surprised to see that even as the tribe prepares to abandon the sietch, children are engaged in their lessons about Arrakeen ecology. Harah says that the Fremen cannot...
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Book 2, Part 15
...order to avoid their enemies who are sweeping the desert for Fremen cells. However, the sietch may have a new Reverend Mother if Jessica can successfully “pass within” to become a...
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Book 3, Part 4
In the safety of the sietch warrens, Jessica is dwelling on Paul’s test to ride a sandworm. It is evening, and...
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Book 3, Part 5
Paul wants to ride the sandworm south to a newly established sietch that hides Fremen women and children, while Stilgar thinks that they should stop and set...
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Book 3, Part 7
...his Fremen, is shocked to learn that Lady Jessica is alive and living within the sietch. Halleck still believes that Jessica was the traitor who sold out House Atreides to the...
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...to his responsibilities, Paul walks to deep reaches of the cavern where, as per every sietch, a small sandworm is kept in stunted growth near the tribe’s water basin. It is...
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Book 3, Part 9
...soldiers prepare to meet the Sardaukar in battle, they receive a garbled message from the sietch where the Fremen women and children are taking refuge—a Sardaukar raiding party attacked, killing many...
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