Seeking Mago, the Great Mother from Old Korea

Title: Seeking Mago, the Great Mother from Old Korea: A Mytho-Historical-Thealogical Reconstruction of Magoism, an Archaically Originated Gynocentric Tradition of East Asia

Forthcoming September 2026

E-Book: 10.00 (Pre-order)

Paperback Book: 28.00 (Pre-order)

ISBN: 9798187895434

Trim Size: 6×9

Total page: about 430

Author: Helen Hye-Sook Hwang

Description: This book is a slightly modified version of my doctoral dissertation written in the early 2000s. This book’s title, Seeking Mago, the Great Mother from Old Korea: A Mytho-Historic-Thealogical Reconstruction of Magoism, an Archaically Originated Gynocentric Tradition of East Asia, differs a bit from the latter, “Seeking Mago, the Great Goddess: A Mytho-Historical-Thealogical Reconstruction of Magoism, an Archaically Originated Gynocentric Tradition of East Asia” (Claremont Graduate University, 2005). “Old Korea” means the pre-patriarchally originated (read pre-Chinese) people and land of the Cosmic Mother who pioneered the Neolithic through the socio-political-soteriological system in the form of matriversal confederacies. It has taken 26 years for me to verify its original structure and premises of Magoism, the Way of Mago, the Creatrix. In fact, my dissertation shows the widest and deepest scope of Ceto-Magoism (the Whale-guided Way of Mago, the Creatrix), a modified notion for Magoism (the Way of Mago, the Creatrix). Old Koreans do NOT represent a national or ethnic identity. They refer to “Matriversalists,” united across borders. They raised Matriversal Civilization (Ceto-Magoist Civilization) that we moderns inherited. This book is indispensable in understanding the foundation of my lifetime research project, Ceto-Magoist Studies better known as Creatrix Studies. I have written books and articles to support, introduce, and verify the premises of Magoism laid out in my dissertation. My books include The Mago Way: Re-discovering Mago, the Great Goddess from East Asia (Mago Books, 2015), Mago Almanac (Mago Books, 2016-Present), and Reader: Toward Magoist Cetaceanism (Mago Books, 2023).

Keywords: Mago, Magoism, Old Korea, East Asia, Creatrix, Cosmic Mother, Goddess, Mythology, History, Religion, Patriarchy

Table of Contents

Acknowledgement

Transliteration Notes

Table of Maps

Table of Figures

Preface

Part I: Preliminary Discussions

Chapter 1

The Method of a Magoist Mytho-Historic-Thealogy

Chapter 2

Primary Sources, History, and Nationalism