“Your Reverence”

The Reverend Mother Mohiam is an old woman who comes to test a youth and to kill him or let him live.  I think she bears comparison to a midwife as described by Socrates in the Theaetetus.

The Face Dancer Theaetetus

I think Plato’s character Theaetetus is in some ways Frank Herbert’s model for the Face Dancers in the Dune series.  I wonder if I’m the only person in the world who suspects this.