Announcements & Updates
- 2020 Nine Day Mago Celebration
Words of Invitation by Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, Ph.D.
Mago Academy announces this year’s event of Nine Day Mago Celebrations! It has been a blessed journey since last year’s Nine-Nine Day (the ninth month and the ninth day) according to the Mago Almanac (13 month 28 day Magoist Calendar)! We will be thanking for the blessings that we are given for nine days! Join us in the nine-fold litany of our love and gratitude to Mago, the Great Mother!
It is the 9th year since we Magoists found each other and voiced out to the world in the Mago Circle, the Facebook Group, and the Return to Mago E-Magazine (https://www.magoism.net) in 2012. And today we are witnessing in pain and suffering that the whole world is undergoing a massive change by the yet-expanding course of the Covid19 pandemic on a global scale, which may be seen as nature’s due response to patriarchal advancements. You may have seen me as a writer/advocate/indie-publisher of the topic of Goddess feminist activist spirituality for the last few years. Thus far, thanks to our Mago Work volunteers and authors, we have planned and published four collective writing books (the She Rises trilogy and the Celebrating Seasons of the Goddess). You are correct, if you understood what Magoism is about through these collective books and venues. However, I must say that what you have seen is only the broad implication of Magoism, the Way of the Great Mother/Creatrix. (Continue reading below)
2020 Nine Mago Celebrations
- Reading the Budoji Online Class, the second round beings on August 11
Mago Academy offers an online course, Reading the Budoji, facilitated by Dr. Helen Hye-Sook Hwang. The Budoji (Epic of the Emblem City), the principal text of Magoism, stands for a thus-far unheard-of ancient matri-centric story. In it, the Great Mother (the Female) and women (the female) represent the divine and the human kind in whom all (non-humans as well as humans) are found kindred. Having studied the Budoji and Magoism for the last 20 years, Dr. Hwang, prompted by the coronavirus pandemic, aims to duly introduce the Budoji among Goddess feminist, activist, spiritual practitioners, broadly defined and to the world during this critical time. Join Hwang and Mago Scholars in her reading The Budoji to the world!
Testified to its compilation and authorship in the late 4th or early 5th century of Silla (57 BCE-935 CE), an ancient Korean state, The Budoji reappeared in the mid 1980s in Korea. It narrates, in an unbroken stroke, the mytho-history of ancient Magoists from the cosmogonic beginning of all beings from Mago, the Creatrix, and the trans-patriarchal mytho-history of Magoists. Its narrative is incomparable with any text thus-far known but relates with worldwide myths, cultures, and histories. (Continue reading below)
(Online Course) Reading The Budoji (Epic of the Emblem Capital City) for Post-Coronavirus Generations
- Mago Bookstore Seasonal Free Downloads: The nine-ninth Gift begins on August 5-6 for 48 hours.
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.
(Illustrator Search) The Magoist Cosmogony: The Origin Story of Mago, the Great Mother of All
- New Arrival from Mago Books: The Budoji Workbook (Volume1): The Magoist Cosmogony (Chapters 1-4)
(New Arrival) The Budoji Workbook (Volume 1): The Magoist Cosmogony (Chapters 1-4)
Mago Academy and Mt Shasta Goddess Temple are happy to announce 2020 Magoist Studies Online Salon to be held monthly! Join Dr. Helen Hye-Sook Hwang (Mago Academy Center Director), and Ms. Yeshe Matthews (Mt Shasta Goddess Temple Priestess) on a series of intriguing and novelty topics on Magoist Studies on a monthly basis. What is Magoist Studies? In short, Magoist Studies is an intellectual/spiritual undertaking about Mago, the Creatrix, and Magoism, an Original (read Pre-patriarchal) Matrix of the Great Mother known through traditional Koreans/East Asians. It is a life-long learning project established by Dr. Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, scholar on Magoism and advocate of the Mago Work. (Continue reading below)
2020 Magoist Studies Online Salon
- We welcome your submission on the topic of the Covid-19 pandemic. There are two venues and you can consider one or both.
1. (Call For Contributions) She Summons: Why… Goddess Feminism, Activism and Spirituality?
Why/How … the coronavirus pandemic calling you to action for Goddess Feminism, Activism and Spirituality? Or your own question that addresses the coronavirus pandemic. (Continue reading below)
(Call For Contributions) She Summons: Why… calling to action for Goddess Feminism, Activism and Spirituality?
2. Return to Mago E-Magazine
The coronavirus outbreak is changing human behaviors on a global level, marking a watershed in which individuals, organizations, and states/nations no longer lead the same lifestyle as before the covid19 world. Where are we, humans, heading to? What are our concerns among Goddess feminists, activists, and spiritual practitioners, broadly defined? The Return to Mago E-Magazine Editorial seeks contributions on your response to the changes manifesting on any level. Please don’t hesitate to share your insights or observations in a form of art, poetry, prose, essay or project with our international readers and to the world. (Continue reading)
- (Call for Contributions) Celebrating Intercosmic Kinship of the Goddess We are seeking essays, poems, and artworks in an effort to recognize, celebrate, and proclaim the Intercosmic Kinship of the Goddess. Building on the first volume of the Celebrating the Goddess collective writing anthology, Celebrating Seasons of the Goddess, this second volume aims to unleash the latch on the door of the reservoir wherein we and our cultures are deeply rooted. Like all other collective writing projects including She Rises triology (She Rises Volume 1 and She Rises Volume 2), this book is also made possible by volunteers (co-editors, authors, and readers as well as co-creators of Mago Books) who commit themselves to the principle of Maternal Gift Economy. (Read About & People of Mago Books.) In Volume 2, we intend to interweave topics related with but not limited to animals, plants, natural elements, Mother Earth, astrology, constellations, inter-species connections, and trans-cultural Goddess traditions and practices. Detailed themes include: (Continue reading)
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