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Havehome was a fictional series of desert tunnels and caverns within a vast area of inhospitable desert (colloquially referred to as "the Pit"),[1] and the ancient home of the cloaked, tunnel-dwelling Mohelmot (colloquially known as the Moles, or "hole-workers"), within the mythos of The Residents' Mole Trilogy saga, produced from 1981 to 1985.
Prior to the events of the trilogy, Havehome remained unexplored by the planet's predominant, coast-dwelling species the Chubs, until its discovery (and that of its inhabitants) by the Chub explorer Innisfree, whose eventual disappearance led to many legends among the Chubs as to his eventual fate (presumed to be at the hands of the mysterious hole-workers).
The 1981 album Mark of the Mole (and the 1982-1983 live tour The Mole Show) depict the Moles being driven from Havehome by a natural disaster, whereupon they are forced to march across the desert towards the sea, ultimately seeing refuge in Chubville, a coastal city occupied by largely vapid, exploitative Chubs, and commencing the generations-long conflict depicted in The Mole Trilogy.
Following the Moles' escape in "Migration" (from Mark of the Mole), Havehome was not again directly featured in the completed instalments of the trilogy, however the Moles' ancient culture and religious hymns were captured in the second album in the series, The Tunes of Two Cities, in 1982, and Havehome itself was visually depicted in backdrop and set designs seen during the first act of the Mole Show.
The name "Havehome" is phonetically similar to the title of the bastardized Mohelmot hymn "Happy Home", from Act II of the Chub musical Innisfree, about the fictional explorer of the same name.
See also[]
- Mohelmot
- Chubville
- Elmwurst
- Mark of the Mole
- Mark of the Mole (novel)
- "Happy Home"
- The Mole Show
- The Evil Disposer
- Innisfree
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Mark of the Mole Part One of The Mole Trilogy (1981) Side A: Hole-Workers at the Mercy of Nature |
