i think he was probably aware of both. and called the thing spice because of the spice trade while meaning oil and the world wide devastation it ( and the competition for it ) has caused
though it makes me think now that the worms are probably just meant to be nature itself, rearing it’s ugly, beautiful, terrifying self
“i always had the perception that the Fremen and their societies and religion were the real heroes”
Well. They were.
Frank Herbert said it well later, probably in God Emperor of Dune: “No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero”
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