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 August 2026

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ISBN: 9798187895434

Trim Size: 6×9

Total page: about 430

Author: Helen Hye-Sook Hwang

Description: This book is a slightly revised 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 is similar but not the same as the title of my dissertation, “Seeking Mago, the Great Goddess: A Mytho-Historical-Thealogical Reconstruction of Magoism, an Archaically Originated Gynocentric Tradition of East Asia” (Claremont Graduate University, 2005). What makes this book different from the dissertation includes: The title, the Preface, and the endnotes numbered as a, b, c… at the end of each chapter. Regarding the title, “Old Korea” means the pre-patriarchally originated (read pre-Chinese) people and land of the Cosmic Mother. Old Koreans are NOT defined as a national or ethnic community. They refer to “Matriversalists” united across borders in the form of matricentric confederacies. It has taken 26 years for me to fully unravel its structure and contents. 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). In fact, my dissertation shows the widest and deepest scope of Ceto-Magoism (the Whale-guided Way of Mago, the Creatrix), which I named earlier Magoism (the Way of Mago, the Creatrix). This book contains three major parts. Each part introduces and discusses the major themes of Magoism, which requires a book volume of contents. In Part 1, Preliminary Discussions, I discussed the methodology of studying Magoism. Part 2 discussed The Budoji (Epic of the Emblem Capital City) and the Handan Gogi (Old Histories of Han and Dan), the principal texts of Magoism. And in Part 3, Various Sources from Korea and China, I discussed various and sundry primary sources on Magoism drawn from Korea, China, and Japan.

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