the manual

Prayers &
Songs



Prayer for those Above:

Mothers, thank you for your guidance. May your light continue to
shine ever bright and guide those Above, who have not yet been
enlightened. May they find a togetherness as we have found Below.
[all] Together, we are screwed.



The Diamond
Heritage Key

Top view - the three separate heads, all operable by the Universal Key

In order to preserve and respect and protect it, reflexively and
the Traditions and Unions whole-heartedly. The ultimate
which form and empower this symbol of this trust is the
Community, all present and Diamond Heritage Key. It is our
future Keys shall be formed by ancestral lines, made manifest;
and from the Keys which came the corporeal form of the invisible
before them. Just as we come yet omnipresent responsibility we
together to take forms greater bear to each other, the trust on
than our individual selves, and which it functions, and thanks
just as we are shaped by the we owe to the Forebearers who
immense pressures of the Waters enable all things to occur.
above, so, too, shall our Keys be
defined by the union of many
smaller individual pieces under
immense pressure into something
greater than was before. Each
of us carries the same Burden of
our collective continued survival;
a burden made lighter by our
mutual trust, that we each will
elect to carry it, and uphold it,

Three Keys for Three Stages

Left: Loaders
Right: Keys



The Six
Pillars

ESPONSIBILITYSURVIVALSTRUCTURESERVICERENE

WALCOMMUNITYR

Structure
Service
Renewal

Community
Responsibility

Survival



The Loader

Various examples of Loader
personalisation

The Loader is the implement units to which you belong, to
in which the Key is embedded, the Authorisation of Charlotte.
and serves as the key interface Gather together on the 9th day
between the Bearer and the Key. of the 1137th cycle, to celebrate,
Each Argonaut is presented with commune, and partake in the
a Loader at birth, to encourage Traditions put forth and ascribed
play and acclimation. This Loader in the Manual. As always, the
is extensively customised by Ceremonies will be mediated and
the Bearer’s care takers. The directed by your Provost. Join
final Stage is entered through as we extend all lineages of our
acceptance of the Universal Key great Community of Argonauts
during an Authorisation. A typical into the hands, the Loader,
invitation text is repeated below. and the Key of Charlotte. Bear
You are invited, along with the witness to the foundational
greater social and communal power it bestows upon us -
screwing, binding, coalescing,

A Loader, a Key, and a screw

not just Woman and Material but
Woman to Woman, Forebearer to
Afterbearer.
The Authorisation will commence
beneath the Altar, at the time at
which the Waters ebb. It need
not be repeated that, naturally,
those of all Stages are welcomed
beneath the Altar. Traditional
forms of non-auditory and non-
exclusionary translations will be
synchronously available.



The Three Keys

Primary “Castle” Intermediate “Cross” Universal “Diamond”
Key Key Key

Primary “Castle” Key
Age 5

Named for its castle-like shape
Compatible with matching Primary holes only

Intermediate “Cross” Key
Upon first menstruation

Compatible with Primary and Intermediate

Universal “Diamond” Key
Age 25

Universally Compatible
Coated with Diamond formed from

ashes of ancestors



The
Authorisation

Ceremony

Forebearers
Cremation / Pressurisation

into Diamond

Coating of Keys with Diamond

Authorised
Bearers

The Authorisee:
By accepting this Diamond Heritage Key,
I, The Authorisee, hereby pledge to
maintain and upkeep our Community,
and protect the ideals for which it stands,
one Community, screwed together, under the
Waters.
[all] Together, we are screwed.