Sandworms - The Gods of Dune Explained | Dune Lore 

Only thing wrong here is its diet. They eat sand trout like whales eat krill. Sand trout burrow deep under the sand

honestly incredible how dune as a whole has become such a cultural phenomenon in 2024 when the original book was written even before starwars. such a rich story

Fantasy has dragons, science fiction has giant desert worms.

Bless the Maker and his water.

The books were always about human evolution. How our environment causes us to adapt. The sand worms and spice are sort of a cheat. They helped speed up our evolution. Dune and the worms made our bodies adapt. Spice was for our minds. In the books the Fremen were almost physically perfect. Their blood congealed faster. They were tireless. Perfect warriors.

They are Fungi. Mycelial networks are even made of tunes. It’s the Panspermia concept just adapted a bit.

More dune content please!

I've truly enjoyed your videos and greatly appreciate you breaking down this sand worm for me.

Right from the beginning of Messiah I realized the Worms came from Ascended Masters. Even if the Guild began their biochemical cultivation of “spice technology” with more archaic practices…. It’s pretty blatant that “we are worms” kinda ties into Panspermia idea of Fungi creating all life on Earth. He even made the Spice the method of traversing space… just like Fungi travel in comets

Oh damn. . . After looking into the full history, it had me expecting some time travel shenanigans, with the worm's origins lol It would explain why Villeneux made his worm stop right in front of Paul; their destinies are tied! They have waters of life as their blood vessels. They are aware of the future, more than sentient?

Please talk about the Bene Gesserit, The Voice, and more of Dune’s supernatural elements

Dude, you did great job explaining Dune

Loved this!

Awesome subject. I just watched the new one the other day. I’ve only read the first book, so I’m not as steeped with arrakis lore as I am others. But it’s no less fascinating

Amazing overview of these great divine beasts. Your voice is so soothing yet so informative!

Amazing video. I really enjoyed it! Pleas can you tell me what music piece did you use from the 12.20 minute? It's beautiful

Good stuff 👍

Best video on this I've seen

I would love to hear more about the religious part of Dune, the prophecy of the Fremen etc

Thank you so much!❤

i need more

bless the coming and going of him

Just scratching the surface of storytelling and video experimentation. VideoGPT seamlessly integrated into my process, subtly refining my content with its magic touch.

The toy of the 80s sandworm scares me to this day. The sarlacc and krayt dragons would literally head for the hills.

Loving the dune content still!

Imagine those worm castings

My question is, how did humans discover the spice melange if we didn't have the spice to make navigators? Unless arrakis and spice were discovered before the butlerian jihad, there's no way.

Basically the sandworm (a god ) = morky Crom, the desert variety of EL the sea-dragon or whale. Celestial it is Cetos or the great snake (serpent) handled by Ophiuchus (= Paul) .

1. The sandworm doesn't eat sand, it basically filters it. 2. The bits that it filters out and consumes aren't generally sandtrout, they burrow too deep. They eat their sandplankton among other microscopic things. It is interesting that, while they can eat other things, they are not only cannibals, but eat their own young. These are super-sentient creatures, so that's pretty intense. 3. You mention at the end that the sandworm showed up in Earth, did you mean Arrakis? Earth isn't relevant in the Dune series. I remember them returning to Arrakis. I'm not 100% sure though. 4. It would be worth mentioning that they are exported to other planets for spice production and to "desertify" said planets. In this era, even aquatic 'sand'worms are created and utilized. 5. Leto II was the first merger with Shai Hulud, but not the last. A ghola of Duncan Idaho merged with Shai Hulud as well, and is probably why Leto II kept so many Duncans. Of course Leto II could see this conclusion and potential in Duncan, there's something 'divine' (in the Bene Gessrit eugenics sort of way) about them both.

Why do sandworms go towards any form of vibrations if water is poison to them? Human beings are mostly water, isn't our blood poisonous to them?

A video about the voice pls😊

They would indeed need to be gods, as on a planet as arid as Arrakis / Dune, this large number of gigantic creatures would have no means of existing except as supernatural beings, or life beyond our definition.

Saleem was the first sand rider per recorded history but the tools he used already existed. Thus, no one really knows who the first sand rider really was. Discuss the Rosack drug (Bene Gesserit) versus water of life (Fremen).

Shi halude! This was cool =]

I thought that the sandworms did not survive the attack by Honored Matres, but were successfully replanted onto the Bene Gesserit's home planet, which became the new Dune.

I read a most of the novels about a hundred years ago.

Dune! What does mine say? Sweet! What does mine say?

Not to be Confused with the Sandworms of Beetlejuice. Those are really weird by comparison on the Netherworld of Saturn...

The worm is a living machine.

Huh. Something tells me Robert Jordan was a fan of Dune. A lot of parallels 😅

Worms

Glorified earthworms

in the book it is said that paul summoned for his inaugural ride a worm that was half a league long -- 1.5 miles or 2.4 km the book didnt say how wide the diameter of that monster was but if it was one tenth the length that would be close to 800 feet or 240 metres across psalms 22 verse 6 and 12 to 14 6 but I am a worm and no man a reproach of men and despised of the people 12 many bulls have compassed me strong bulls of bashan have beset me round 13 they gaped upon me with their mouths as a ravening and a roaring lion 14 i am poured out like water and all my bones are out of joint my heart is like wax it is melted in the midst of my bowels

So they are all snorting worm shit to travel between the stars...

There are few signs of worms in Dune 2. You see the mouths and clouds of dust, but with CGI,. I would have expected more.

I think its alien organism that took over humanity

Spice = Oil. Arakkis = Middle East.

Tremors

How exactly does one dismount a sand worm after you start riding it? Or an entire army? And, once you get off dont they trying to kill you immediately? 😅 Is this explained in the books? PLOTHOLE?

Those things even for a phantasy creature are the most stupidly absurd of all.

Good explanation of the lifecycle! But since you have got sideways with SPOILER ALERT why not citing the worms exported to other worlds from the benegesserit

Big. They are really big.

Funny we call that castings...😅

my question is where did they come from...and their stage are kinda weird... they are not original of doom but they transform it in a desert... and they start eating water but then become a poison for their adult stage... look something man made to me... I mean look like they were made as weapons to put on planets make it deserted

Much of Dune is very well thought out but creatures who eat sand and rocks having thousands of thin pointy teeth is a big oops

If you take a wet, Earth-like world and make it a planet-wide desert, that isn't _terraforming_ -- to terraform is to make something more _like_ Earth. The meaning is right there in the word's morphemes: terra + form "Terraform" does not mean _radically change a planet._

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The internet says they eat sand plankton not sand

They ate sand plankton.

They don’t eat sand…🙄. They eat sand trout, like whales eating krill.

God's poop ?

Good video.... but I got the impression that you got all this information from a wiki before making this video.

"Religion is pretty notsmart" That were my thoughts as a kid about the 1980s movie. Hasn't changed much. Religion is something humanity has to overcome. Asap. Looking at the atracities done by a real life desert Religion....

If the sand worms feed on essentially their own young they would die out quickly. That part of the story is just bad writing.

Unrealistic. No other lifeforms.

It is impossible physically for an animal to get that large. A worm is particularly incapable of this. Sorry to piss on your chips but… no way, not ever.

A poorly written trope of a creature, that makes no sense and is justification an epic shot that is epically stupid. WTF why would any living creature eat a giant metal machine? They wouldn't, this was an epically filmed turd of a story with horrendous audio mixing, and genuinely the most overrated film in film history.