The Immigrant Song

Led Zepplin's Immigrant Song contains the lyrics, oft misquoted, "I come from the land of icing hoes." We would like to decrease the frequency of transgressions against Led and clarify the artist's lyrical intent, while adding our...reservations as to the subject material. However, we are an objective think tank, and wish to represent all ideas here in a similar fashion.
The land of icing hoes is a land where one person presides over a multitude of hoes, who regularly slather themselves with dessert icing. They then proceed to eat the icing off of each other, sensually.

Sometimes, however, they eat each other.

This is dictated by the presiding person giving a subtle signal (more on that in a moment) to the multitude, who descend upon the appointed hoe. At first the appointed one is unaware of what is going on, due to the only slight changes in the multitude's behavior. In fact the multitude is so skilled at the art of eating that there is little pain and it is surprisingly late in the game that the appointed one realizes what the deal is. After this, they continue their previous activities. The signal is given when a particular hoe has displeased the one who presides.

The subtle signal is one of great skill. It needs to be clear, specific, and noticeable to ... otherwise occupied and verily distracted hoes. The one it concerns must not perceive it, there must be enough signals that each hoe has their own. It must be executed casually, so as if it were observed by one with extensive training in such signals, excepting the particular one being performed, it would pass undetected. The extreme skill required limits the possible persons who can preside over the land.

The song proceeds to describe a scandinavian-esque viking-like peoples; we can assume that the barbarism (and offensive descriptor 'hoes') conveyed by this scenario is an attempt by Led to demonstrate the horrors of the warrior race they describe, and by extention reinforce their layered and signifigant metaphorical context.