Mago Books seeks one or more illustrators for the Budoji Workbook Volume 1 written by Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, Ph.D. The tentative title of the Illustrated Budoji Volume 1 is The Magoist Cosmogony: The Origin Story of Mago, the Great Mother of All. The selected illustrator will be considered as the “co-author” with Dr. Hwang. The Budoji Illustration Book Project involves the nine volumes to cover all 33 chapters of the Budoji.
The Budoji (Epic of the Emblem City) is the principal text of Magoism. The first volume concerns The Magoist Cosmogony (Chapters 1-4). More info on the Budoji’s resources is provided below.
Primary Deadline: August 31, 2020. Ongoing for the subsequent volumes. The Volume 2 search will be announced in a timely manner.
How to Apply: If you are interested in submitting your sample illustrations, please email Dr. Hwang (return2mago@gmail.com) with your application information as instructed below. Please state “Application for Budoji Illustration Volume 1” in the subject line of your email. To selected candidates, Mago Books will award the PDF copy of the Workbook Volume 1 The Magoist Cosmogony (Chapters 1-4) for The Budoji (Epic of the Emblem Capital City) in English and Korean Translations with the Original Text in the East Asian Logographic Language (hereafter the Workbook Volume 1) and/or the attendance to the current online course, Reading the Budoji, hosted by Mago Academy. You will be invited to the discussion forum of the project details, upon being selected as a candidate.
Application Information:
- Your name and contact info (email address and/or website).
- Your sample works in related themes.
- Your CV or Resume, optional. (Upon being selected, you will be asked to provide.)
- Your answers to these questions: What makes you interested in the project? How do you see your illustration works can contribute to the volume?
- Questions or Comments.
What is the Magoist Cosmogony about?
The Magoist Cosmogony recounted in the Budoji’s first four chapters presents Our Story of Mago, the Creatrix, the Story of All in Mago Stronghold, the Earth. The Origin Story of Mago is a soteriological kit for humans to remember, verify, and pass it to forthcoming generations. (For details, see the Workbook Volume 1.)
Scholarly Resources on the Budoji written by Helen Hye-Sook Hwang include:
Seeking Mago, the Great Mother from East Asia: A Mytho-Historical-Thealogical Reconstruction of Magoism, an Archaically Originated Matricentric Tradition of Old Korea (forthcoming June 21, 2020 by Mago Books).
The Mago Way: Re-discovering Mago, the Great Goddess from East Asia Volume 1 (Mago Books, 2015).
Mago Almanac: 13 Month 28 Day Calendar Volume 3 (Mago Books, 2019).
“Mago, the Creatrix from East Asia, and the Mytho-History of Magoism,” in Goddesses Myth, History and Culture edited by Mary Ann Beavis and Helen Hye-Sook Hwang (Lytle Creek, CA: Mago Books, 2018), 4-31.
“Goma, the Shaman Ruler of Old Magoist East Asia/Korea, and Her Mythology,” Goddesses Myth, History and Culture edited by Mary Ann Beavis and Helen Hye-Sook Hwang (Lytle Creek, CA: Mago Books, 2018), 251-275.
“Issues in Studying Mago, the Great Goddess of East Asia: Primary Sources, Gynocentric History, and Nationalism.” In Constant and Changing Faces of the Goddess: Goddess Traditions of Asia edited by Deepak Shimkhada and Phillis K. Herman (Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008), 10-31.
Budoji Chapter Structure
33 Chapters (Ch. 1-26 The Budoji and Ch. 27-33 The Little Budoji)
Passage I The Beginning that Takes Place HERE/NOW and the Mythic Period
- The Magoist Cosmogony: The Paradise Home of Mago Stronghold, the Nine Mago Creatrix, and Sonic Numerology (Ch. 1-4)
- First Tribulation and First Diaspora (Ch. 5-8)
3. The Mandate of Restoring the Origin and Shaman Queens (Chapters 9-10)
Passage II Establishment Old Magoist Reigns that Embraced All Peoples
- Goma Hanung’s Sinsi (Divine City) and Imgeom Dangun’s Budo (Emblem Capital City) (Ch. 11-13)
- Renewal of Sinsi: Celebrations of Budo (Ch. 14-16)
Passage III Rise of Degenerative Patriarchal Rule and the Escalated Suffering of All
- Rise of Yo/Yao as Second Tribulation and the Establishment of Xia, Ancient China (Ch. 17-20)
- Fallacy of Yao’s Patriarchal Thinking and the Magoist Calendar (Ch. 21-23)
- Destruction by the Patriarchal Rule, Second Diaspora, and Forgotten Magoism (Ch. 24-26)
Passage IV Revival of Trans-patriarchal Magoism by Silla Koreans
- Formation of the Sillan Magoist confederacy, the Little Budo (Ch. 27-30)
- Sillan Revival of Old Magoism (Ch. 31-33)
About the Author and Project Co-Director:
Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, Ph.D. is scholar, activist, and advocate of Magoism, anciently originated tradition that venerates Mago as the Great Goddess. She earned her MA and Ph.D. in Religion with emphasis on Feminist Studies from Claremont Graduate University, CA. She also studied toward an MA degree in East Asian Studies at UCLA, CA. Hwang has taught for universities in California and Missouri, U.S.A. Since 2012, Dr, Hwang has founded, directed, co-edited, written for the Return to Mago E-Magazine (https://magoism.net), Mago Academy (https://magoacademy.org),
and Mago Books (https://magobook.com). She authored Seeking Mago, the Great Mother from East Asia: A Mytho-Historical-Thealogical Reconstruction of Magoism, an Archaically Originated Matricentric Tradition of Old Korea (forthcoming, 2020). The Mago Way: Re-discovering Mago, the Great Goddess from East Asia (Mago Books, 2016), Mago Almanac: The 13 Month 28 Day Calendar (Mago Books, 2018 and 2019). Dr. Hwang leads Mago Pilgrimage to Korea annually and gives lectures internationally. Also she has co-edited and published Goddesses in Myth, History, and Culture, Celebrating Seasons of the Goddess (Mago Books, 2018), She Rises: Why Goddess Feminism, Activism, and Spirituality? Volume 1 (Mago Books, 2015), She Rises: How Goddess Feminism, Activism, and Spirituality? Volume 2 (Mago Books, 2016), and She Rises: How Goddess Feminism, Activism, and Spirituality? Volume 3 (Mago Books, 2019).
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