"Frank Herbert - The Godmakers" - читать интересную книгу автора (Herbert Brian & Frank)

reminiscent of a full-jowled bulldog and a steady gaze which often made people
uncomfortable.

Despite his peculiar dream, or perhaps because of it, Orne made regular
obeisance to Amel, "the planet where all godness dwells." Because of the
dream's pronouncements, which remained with him all through his waking life,
he enlisted on the morning of his nineteenth birthday in the Rediscovery and
Reeducation Service, thereby seeking to reknit the galactic empire shattered
by the Rim Wars.

After training him in the great Peace School on Marak, R&R set Orne down one
cloudy morning on the meridian longitude, fortieth parallel, of the newly
rediscovered planet of Hamal, terra type to eight decimal places, the
occupants sufficiently close to the homo-S genetic drift for interbreeding
with natives of the Heart Worlds.

Ten Hamal weeks later, as he stood at the edge of a dusty little village in
the planet's North Central Uplands, Orne pushed the panic button of the little
green signal unit in his right-hand jacket pocket. At the moment, he was
intensely aware that he was the lone representative on Hamal of a service
which often lost agents to "causes unknown."

What had sent his hand thrusting for the signal unit was the sight of about
thirty Hamalites continuing to stare with brooding gloom at a companion who
had just executed a harmless accidental pratfall into a mound of soft fruit.

No laughter, no discernible change of emotion.

Added to all the other items Orne had cataloged, the incident of the pratfall-
in-the-fruit compounded Hamal's aura of doom.

Orne sighed. It was done. He had sent a signal out into space, set a chain
of events into motion which could result in the destruction of Hamal, of
himself, or both.

As he was to discover later, he had also rid himself of his repetitive dream,
replacing it with a sequence of waking events which would in time make him
suspect he had walked into his mysterious night world.




A religion requires numerous dichotomic relationships. It needs believers and
unbelievers. It needs those who know the mysteries and those who only fear
them. It needs the insider and the outsider. It needs both a god and a
devil. It needs absolutes and relativity. It needs that which is formless
(though in the process of forming) and that which is formed.

-- Religious Engineering, secret writings of Amel
"We are about to make a god," Abbod Halmyrach said.