Writer’s Notes on Magoist Cetaceanism

Jan. 5, 2020.

I don’t know if you had read the post I made on the Budoji’s six chapters. If you wish to read it, please introduce yourself first via email (ninemagos@gmail.com) and I will share it with you.

My reflection goes on. I realize why it is so hard to write a comprehensive commentary on the Budoji. It is because the Budoji is a pre-patriarch text in origin with little altered even when it was written down in around the late 4th or early 5th century. As a pre-patriarchal gynocentric text scribed by a family of Sillan Magoists, the Budoji betrays a whole gamut of novelty conceptions. Foremost, power or authority is derived from Mother. That is why the Creatrix is called Mago, the Great Mother. The genealogy of Nine Magos (the Mago Triad and Eight Daughters) is a power statement, so to speak. Mother leads and governs her children by love and sacrifice. I mean that motherhood is self-giving love. We perceive the Creatrix, Mago, through our mothers. Not the other way around. And whale mothers/grandmothers are the model for human mothers (I can see this kind of thinking running through in Korean cetacean expressions, to be discussed in detail in my forthcoming book). And in a pre-patriarchal gynocentric culture/society/polity, Mother/the Great Mother is NOT celebrated alone (unlike the god who alone is almighty etc.) but Her bond with all other animals and plants is deemed divine. In that sense, I came to understand totemism and animism as a pre-patriarchal religious expression that stands for the bond between the human kind and animals/non-animals. This is something that radically differs from a patriarchal religious/theological/creation text. We, Goddessians/Magoists, are not ontologically alone but bonded with animals and plants, that is all beings. This is a very comforting realization for me as I have longed to arrive in my consciousness. Hope this make sense to you.