Quotes About Sietch

Sietch: a meeting place in time of danger.

You shall be known among us as Usul, the base of the pillar. This is your secret name, your troop name. We of Sietch

Their destination was Sietch Tabr—Stilgar's sietch. She turned the word over in her mind: sietch. It was a Chakobsa word, unchanged from the old hunting language out of countless centuries. Sietch: a meeting place in time of danger. The profound implications of the word and the language were just beginning to register with her after the tension of their encounter.

Below her, a Fremen work gang appeared. They climbed to the sietch's middle entrance, and she saw that they had muddy feet. Fremen with muddy feet!

He could see it stretching ahead of him, a time of relative quiet in a hidden sietch, a moment of peace between periods of violence.

Here the spice was everywhere: in the air, food, garments, wall hangings and rugs. Melange was intertwined with sietch life as much as water.