Abomination, in the context of the Dune series written by Frank Herbert, refers to one who aquires full concience as a fetus as a result of being exposed to the spice agony, gaining to all their ancestral memories before birth. Dune is a science fiction novel written by Frank Herbert and published in 1965. ... Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986) Frank Patrick Herbert (October 8, 1920 – February 11, 1986) was a critically acclaimed and commercially successful American science fiction author. ... Fetus at eight weeks Foetus redirects here. ... In the Dune series of science fiction books by Frank Herbert, spice agony is an ordeal, in which an acolyte of the Bene Gesserit takes a massive overdose of the spice melange and confronts her inner self, and the selves of all her female ancestors. ...

The Dune Encyclopedia Quotes the Bene Gesserit's Azhar Book that states that abomination is "that soul resting quietly within its womb-bed whose entire life is destroyed by a pre-birth knowledge of its ancestors' personae. We cause such a chaotic state if we allow a breeder to take of the Water of Life when she is with child."

The aquisition of memories from prevous lives is the test on wich a memeber of the Bene Gesserit becomes a reverend mother. The spice trance awakens genetic memory and the reverend mother can accesess the full memories of all her ancestors. If, however, the reverend mother should be pregnant at the time of drinking the water of life, the same will happen to the fetus or fetuses she carries.

In another quote from tha Azhar Book, the conditions for tha abomination are stated: "First a pregnant Bene Gesserit breeder must ingest the Water of Life, (...) This chemical, carried in her blood to the womb, activates the fetal psychic awareness and produces a babble of sound and sensory imagery which the un-born is unable to comprehend or assimilate. At birth, this "awakened" baby supposedly sees with adult comprehension because of tile active, intelligent, adult memories it now carries at a conscious level. The child, therefore, appears to the uninitiated as extremely precocious but to the knowledgeable as a possible Abomination."

Hence the danger of abomination: Reverend mothers can resisit the inner voices beacuse as a adults they a have a full personality a very solid image of self. The pre-born don't and so they become very vulnerable to the tides of ancestors.

Interestingly, it is also hinted in Children of Dune that the word refers also to Bene Gesserit who abuse their metabolic control in order to extend their lives, the Sisterhood feels that public knowledge that the Bene Gesserit are capable of near-immortality would result in a devastating backlash against them. Children of Dune Children of Dune is a science fiction novel by Frank Herbert, third in a series of six novels set in the Dune universe. ...

In the original Dune novel, the unborn child of Lady Jessica Atreides, Alia, becomes preborn when Jessica undergoes the spice agony in an attempt to become Reverend Mother of Sietch Tabr. Later in Alia's life (in the novels Dune Messiah and Children of Dune), Alia becomes possessed by the ancestral presence of her maternal grandfather, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen. A Reverend Mother is a fictional character appearing in the novel Dune, being a Bene Gesserit woman who has finished her training. ... Dune Messiah Dune Messiah is a science fiction novel by Frank Herbert, the second in a series of six novels. ... Children of Dune Children of Dune is a science fiction novel by Frank Herbert, third in a series of six novels set in the Dune universe. ... Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, portrayed by Ian McNeice in the Dune miniseries Vladimir Harkonnen is a fictional character from the science fiction series Dune. ...

In Dune Messiah, the twin children of Paul Atreides, Leto and Ghanima, also become pre-born as a result of high levels of spice in the diet of their mother, Chani, during their gestation. Leto and Ghanima avoid becoming 'abominations' through the protection of benign ancestoral memory-selves. Ghanima actually finds the cure for the abomination syndrome while trying to conceal truth trough a form of deep hypnosis. Leto Atreides II, portrayed by James McAvoy in the Children of Dune miniseries Leto Atreides II is a fictional character in the Dune universe, created by Frank Herbert. ... Ghanima (meaning spoil of war in the Fremen language) is a fictional character in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. ...