Title Reader: Toward Magoist Cetaceanism by Helen Hye-Sook Hwang
Editor: Helen Hye-Sook Hwang
Mago Books
Publishing Date: December 18, 2023
ISBN 9781522916079
Size 6″x9″
Pages 402
Table of Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
LIST OF SOURCES
INTRODUCTION
PART I THE MAGOMA DIVINE
Chapter One
Mago, the Creatrix From East Asia, and the Mytho-History of Magoism
Chapter Two
Goma, the Shaman Ruler of Old Magoist East Asia/Korea, and Her Mythology
Chapter Three
Myogyeon (Marvelous Sight) and Northern Circumpolar Bear Constellations
PART II MATRIVERSAL SOTERIOLOGY
Chapter Four
Unveiling an Ancient Sill Korean Testimony to the Mother World: An Introductory Discussion of The Budoji (Epic of the Emblem Capital City), the Principal Text of Magoism
Chapter Five
The Consciousness of WE/HERE/NOW in the Magoist Cosmogony
Chapter Six
Introducing the Magoist Calendar: Original Blessing of the Womb Time
PART III CULTURAL EXPLORATIONS
Chapter Seven
The Ancient Korean Whale-Dragon Bell: An Encodement of Magoist Cetacean Soteriology
Chapter Eight
Reinstating Matriversal Motherhood: A Study of Dandong Siphun (Ten Instructions for Dan Children), the Magoist Pretoddler Childrearing Custom of Traditional Korea
Chapter Nine
Liminal Timespace Unfolded: A Short Reflection on the Magoist K-Drama, Hotel Del Luna
Chapter Ten
Five Essays on Mago Pilgrimages to Korea
INDEX
ABOUT HELEN HYE-SOOK HWANG
Description
This reader includes my articles published in my book, anthologies, and journals from 2015 to present. The majority of chapters were written within the last five years. My research concerning Mago, the Great Mother, began in 2000 for my doctoral dissertation. For the first fourteen years, it was extremely difficult for me to produce articles or a book treating Magoism directly due mainly to the overwhelmingly immense, complex, and slippery nature of the topic. In the course of time, my research focus evolved from Magoism to Magoist Cetaceanism. I learned that Magoist women and mothers were not alone in shaping the destiny of pre- and proto-patriarchal worlds. Contrarily, they were guided by the natural world headed by cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises). They discovered cetaceans divine. Whales, surpassing the human standard (in planetary origin, lifespan, biological magnitude, aquatic residence, meteorological influence, sonic communications, and communal social behaviors, to name a few), had been the guardian of the Planet, Earth. Their planetary presence was the model for the divine. In alliance with whales, Shaman Queens of the ancient world cultivated the consciousness of the matriverse (maternally perceived universe). What was feared by patriarchs was not just women but cetaceans whom women revered and bonded with. My encounter with Magoist Cetaceanism enabled me to transform my feminist consciousness into the matriversal consciousness. Feminism is an antidote against patriarchy. Where patriarchy is dispelled, feminism undergoes transformation. Our historical consciousness is not linear. Our view of the past shapes the future. My study of pre-patriarchal confederacies of Old Korea/East Asia shows that patriarchy is a short-living unreality. Patriarchy has proved repeatedly that it is incapable of leading the world in harmony with the universe. That is because it is built on the partial, distorted view that the male is supreme above ALL else. Where the male self is deemed outside the web of interdependence, his rule is there only to be subverted by the rebel force from within. In the matricentric world, women and mothers share agency with ALL else. In the case of Magoist Korea, they revere cetaceans as the terrestrial divine. My research on Magoist Cetaceanism shows the way for humans to restore peace and harmony within the matriverse.
Back cover endorsements
Helen Hwang’s refreshingly original work is deeply intriguing, challenging and thought-provoking. She has woven together a wide range of topics into a unique tapestry of ideas that compel the reader to reconsider established notions about the origins and development of human society. This bold work is recommended for anyone interested in numerology, shamanism, cosmology, the history of religion and East Asia, particularly those blessed with open minds and the gift of curiosity. — Richard J. Pretti, Author of 99 Legends of Jeju Island
Toward Magoist Cetaceanism is an impressive research and labour of love focused on reclaiming East Asian Goddess traditions and bringing them back into their rightful place in our consciousness and culture. Its author, Helen Hwang dives deeply into the origins of Korean Goddess (Mago) and the Shamanic Mago ruler, Goma. In doing so, with one masterful stroke, Hwang recreated the East Asian thealogy and cosmology which points us towards the original Creatrix. The most original part of the book, for me, is the connection of the Primeval Goddess with Cetacea and the place of oceanic mammals within mythology. As someone who is deeply interested in reclaiming Goddess traditions, I am both grateful for this work and in awe of its boldness and scope. — Dr Joanna Kujawa, the author of The Other Goddess
Beginning pages
About the Author
Dr. Hwang is the researcher, writer, publisher, philosopher, visionary, and advocate of Magoist Cetaceanism, the matriversal consciousness of cetacean veneration embodied in the socio-historical-cultural expressions of traditional Korea and beyond. After earning her MA and Ph.D. in Religion with emphasis on Feminist Studies from Claremont Graduate University, CA., she pursued M.A. degree at UCLA, CA. She has made herself a gardener of a mini-forest by the name of Moon-lit Rock Garden in Lytle Creek, California. She, with Mary Ann Beavis, co-founded S/HE: An International Journal of Goddess Studies. Currently, Dr. Hwang has been the leading co-editor of the S/HE journal since 2022. Mago Academy convenes an annual online S/HE Divine Studies conference beginning in 2024. Hwang’s authored many articles and co-edited books include Celebrating Intercosmic Kinship of the Goddess, Goddesses in Myth, History and Culture, Mago Almanac, The Mago Way, She Rises trilogy, Celebrating Seasons of the Goddess, She Summons (Volume 1), The Budoji Workbook (Volume 1), and Return to Mago E-Magazine.
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