The Mago Way: Re-discovering Mago, the Great Goddess from East Asia (Volume 1), is an original and vital contribution to goddess scholarship and feminist studies. Dr. Helen Hye-Sook Hwang’s work provides crucial insight to early eastern goddess centered thought similar to that provided to western goddess studies by Marija Gimbutas. The Mago Way places the great goddess of Korea, Mago, at the root of everything. It discusses when patriarchy overtook the older, feminine based thought system, and how the feminine was later assimilated into the patriarchal model. As the source of all being, Dr. Hwang’s Mago is a unifying force merging individuals and nations while breaking down outdated patriarchal barriers in favor of connection and commonality. Mago has always been here, and as we remember and re-imagine her in our own time, she offers a constructive way forward where each life and all of nature are revered.
Dr. Hwang is an activist who not only studies and promotes Magoism, she also lives it yearly on her annual Mago pilgrimage to Korea. This book is a must read for students of the goddess and anyone seeking a better way for humanity to move forward.
Mary Blair Petiet, author of Minerva’s Owls, Homebound Publications, 2017
Dear Helen,
This morning I finished your impeccably researched book. Your argument is sound and the mythology captured my imagination. As a mythologist myself I found familiar mythical themes repeating – and felt as if I was navigating familiar territory although I knew little beyond reading your essays about the Magoist perspective until the reading of this book. That Mago emerged by the cosmic music along with the stars and then S/he initiated the process of self creation ( self organizing) is a concept that makes perfect sense and speaks to truth.
When you wrote that the Mago community task is to produce earthly resonance that corresponds to the music of the universe and that balance between earth and universe (micro/macro) is essential to the survival of the earthly community I found myself thinking – yes indeed – this is the way through.”
My favorite chapter was your conclusion “The Consciousness We/Here/Now in the Magoist Cosmogany” because you articulate how important the intuitive aspect of this understanding is. In the Magoist Cosmology everything is seen as a whole and in it’s parts. The “both and perspective”, I believe, is critical because without this holistic view of the whole and its parts, the parts are devoid of the knowledge of kinship – I am paraphrasing your words because they say it all.
Bravo Helen, this book is a joy to read and I have already recommended to a number of friends and colleagues. Thank you for writing it!
Blessings!
Sara Wright, https://sarawrightnature.wordpress.com/
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