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The Cargo Cult
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Rock band mentioned in the 1975 novel Leviathan, the third book in Robert Shea's Robert Anton Wilson’s insane Illuminatus! trilogy. They come to the Bavarian city of Ingolstadt to participate in the Walpurgisnacht rock festival, even though they're not on the schedule.
(At eight o'clock in Ingolstadt an unscheduled group called the Cargo Cult managed to get the mike and began blasting out their own outer- space arrangement of an old children's song:
SHE'LL BE COMING 'ROUND THE MOUNTAIN WHEN SHE COMES
SHE'LL BE COMING 'ROUND THE MOUNTAIN WHEN SHE COMES
