Also, the most gripping story to me was Father Lenar Hoyt’s tale, however the book really did not fit the cruciform implant experiences of Lenar Hoyt or Paul Dure as a necessary piece of the puzzle of Hyperion and/or the Shrike. Father Paul Duré heads deep into the jungles of Hyperion to study the Bikura. Father Paul Duré arrives on exile to Hyperion. Go read The Rise of Endymion. Since FORCE fleets have been committed to the Hyperion system, the first wave of worlds threatened by the Ouster invasion seems destined to fall. The Shrike pulls him from there and into a ship where he removes Dure's cruciform and farcasts him to the planet Pacem. Even the Ousters, who are genetically altered humans, can look radically different from normal humans. He probably... Moneta. I think that was a missed opportunity. 2737 The aging Duré, in disgrace for fabricating archaeological discoveries, has chosen Hyperion as a suitable location on which to complete his exile. Aenea's death scene. The way the cruciform info from the … Meanwhile, Father Dure leaves Sol and journeys into a Cave Tomb, where he finds himself in one of the 9 underground labyrinths. However, the cruciform resurrection as experienced by the Bikura has left them largely imbecile, and with certain gross anatomical deformations. In Dan Simmons' Hyperion, Father Paul Duré is reported to be continually crucified on a 'Tesla tree' and then resurrected by the cruciform implanted on him over a period of seven years, until Father Lenar Hoyt breaks the cycle and rescues him. I'm about 100 pages into Hyperion and just finished the father Dure journals bit, what a tale man holy shit. As a younger man, Father Lenar Hoyt is assigned to escort the Teilhardian-inclined Jesuit Father Paul Duré, a theologian, archaeologist and ethnologist, into exile. Hyperion: name of most significant planet in the novel.--Greek mythology: the Titan who was the Sun God and replaced by Apollo--title of a long unfinished poem by John Keats--title of the film based on the novel, expected out in 2013 Hyperion Cantos: in the novel, the title of a long unfinished poem by Martin Silenus. River of Insanity : Father Duré's expedition to the mysterious Bikura tribe on Hyperion, retold by Hoyt in the Priest's Tale. As sudden Shrike Cult uprisings devastate major Hegemony planets, Severn travels to Pacem and encounters Father Duré, who had been transported to … He seeks out the Bikura and gets infected by the cruciform. 2733. It … It is full of millions of cruciforms and even more dead humans. The Priest’s Tale was excellent, with its cruciform parasites and how the horror of them for a catholic drove Father Dure to do what he did, and I quite enjoyed how that plot thread was woven in later on. Father Paul Duré. Hyperion - Chapter 1, The Priest's Tale, The Man Who Cried God Summary & Analysis Dan Simmons This Study Guide consists of approximately 34 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Hyperion. Moneta is "the most beautiful woman [Kassad] had ever seen" (2.221). To get rid of the DNA parasite Paul Duré binds himself on a tesla tree where he suffers death and resurrection many times for years. The Bikura, The Three Score and Ten. Rubber Forehead Aliens: Averted; several sapient species described in Hyperion are incredibly different. The second time, he finds it filled with millions of bodies, stacked so thick that they're decomposing at an arrested rate. Hyperion – Dan Simmons. I find his descriptions to be so easy to imagine, I'm picturing this cleft and vines and temple thing so clearly in my head, it's a trip. In the first, he learns the secret of the Bikura and received the Cruciform that remakes his body. Father Duré enters the Hyperion labyrinth twice, and both apply.