Worship Poems

The early Cult of the Hand did not develop a well-defined or structured mythology to ground it’s ceremonies and festivals. Instead, devotees expressed their devotion by composing worship poems.

The two common forms of these were day poems — simple rhythmic chants used by workers during harvest — and dusk poems — long stories dramatising the journey to Workhome and extolling life in Workhome compared to The Middle, performed publicly in the evenings.

This practice slowly evolved into the first traditions of musical culture in Longbridge, merging the day and dusk styles into what is now known as story form. This began a tradition of nightly revelry featuring fire, music, dancing, and intoxication (via an earlier, much weaker form of the psychedelic preparation used by the modern remnants of the Cult of the Hand) from which the modern culture derives many of it’s artistic and musical influences.