Welcome to 2020 (5917 Magoma Era) Nine Day Mago Celebration! See Words of Invitation by Dr. Helen Hye-Sook Hwang and other details here or continue to read.
I. Days 1, 2, 3 (July 29, 30, 31)
The metamorphic force of Sonic Numerology (the comic music and nine-numerology)
1. What is the Nine-Nine according to the Mago Almanac (13 months 28 days calendar)?
2. What is the Budoji (Epic of the Emblem Capital City)?
3. What is the Magoist Cosmogony?
Day 3: What is the Magoist Cosmogony? The Magoist Cosmogony refers to the Origin Story of Mago, the Creatrix. And the Origin Story of Mago is at the root of Magoism, the Way of the Great Mother/Creatrix. The Origin Story of Mago is NOT about the event that took place once in the beginning of time. It is about WE/HERE/NOW wherein beings are constantly born, grow, and transform through the metamorphic/cosmogonic force of the universe, which I call Sonic Numerology (the cosmic music/nine-numerology). In short, the Origin of the Creatrix refers to Sonic Numerology. We Magoists, like our ancestors, see everything through the lens of the sonic force of nine numbers: We have the Nine Mago Creatrix, the Danguk confederacy of Nine Hans (Magoist Koreans/East Asians), the nine animals of a dragon, the nine-tailed fox, the nine-story pagoda, and the nine heavens, to name a few. Magoist Spirituality is based upon our understanding of Sonic Numerology, the underpinning of the Magoist Cosmogony, a topic to be addressed elsewhere for its immense and complex nature.
I was able to translate and publish the first four chapters of the Budoji (Epic of the Emblem Capital City), the principal text of Magoism, in English and Korean earlier this year under the title The Budoji Workbook (Volume 1): The Magoist Cosmogony (Chapters 1-4). Below is from the Workbook:
The Magoist Cosmogony recounted in the Budoji’s first four chapters presents Our Story of Mago, the Creatrix, the Story of All in Mago Stronghold, the Earth. The Origin Story of Mago is a soteriological kit for humans to remember, verify, and pass it to forthcoming generations. The Budoji is the Book of Mago, the Creatrix, written in a systematically cogent narrative. The Budoji testifies to the forgotten mytho-history of Magoism from which modern civilizations are derived. Without the Budoji, the Origin Story of the Creatrix, would have remained unknown today. Without the Budoji, Magoism, the Way of the Creatrix, would have remained unnamed. The Budoji teaches, guides, and awakens people to the metamorphic reality of WE/HERE/NOW. Alleged to have been written in the early 5th century of Silla (57 BCE-935 CE), the Budoji ripe with noble (read matricentric) terms and symbols is salvific, offering matricentric soteriology. My task is to make the Budoji known to the world so that we can dis-cover the story of the Budoji as OUR STORY. In the Budoji, we are told why and how to live peacefully in harmony with all other people and all other species on earth and beyond. It is very slippery to write about it because of its multi-valent meaning, too bedazzling to articulate. Once told, however, the Budoji will begin to ferment something in your mind, something that has been with us all along and everywhere but made unseen. The nine-volume workbook series is an effort to make the unseen seeable and palpable. The Budoji Workbook allows you to interact with the verses of each chapter. You can take notes, draw images and symbols, or compose songs in the worksheets included after each chapter and in the Appendix. Personalized worksheets can serve as milestones as you proceed in the reading. Ultimately, the Budoji Workbooks invites you to write, draw, or sing the storyline of each chapter in your own words and means. No preparation is required to read the Budoji. Once read, the Budoji will begin to speak to you and guide you from within.
Excerpt from Introduction to The Budoji Workbook (Volume 1): The Magoist Cosmogony (Chapters 1-4)
As the Budoji’s verses are richly charged with symbols and imagery as well as noble matricentric terms, the Budoji Workbook can be used as a daily reading book. Users determine the speed and the dosage. Or it can be used as the guiding text for your self-directed “retreat” practice.
Technically, the Budoji Workbook is designed to be an interactive book and a building block for Magoists to self-discover and stay animated in the wake of the covid19 pandemic. Simply put, the Budoji Workbook is here for you to regain the unsullied joy of knowing the Great Mother of All amidst the escalating chaos in the world. All verses of a chapter are numbered. For example, Budoji 1:10 indicates the 10th verse in Chapter 1. Each chapter includes two worksheets. The Worksheet 1, listing all verses of the chapter in the first column of a table, allows you to use the second column for your associations, songs, or imaginations, invoked by the verse. The Worksheet 2 provides a space for your creative activity including writing the storyline of the whole chapter of a salient theme from the chapter in your own words or illustrate in place of writing. The activity can be conducted with your child or within a circle of friends. By all means, the Budoji Workbook encourages children and the youth to read along.
Last but not least, the Budoji Workbook asks readers to complete the two worksheets of a chapter or multiple chapters and submit them to Dr. Helen Hye-Sook Hwang electronically (return2mago@gmail.com) or by snail mail (785 Melody Ln, Lytle Creek, CA 92358). You may like to print out the worksheet pages in Appendix to write or draw on them in person. Or use the Word file version of the worksheets available upon request via email. Dr. Hwang will respond to your materials and may suggest some creative ideas. Anyone who submit their worksheets will be awarded the PDF version of the forthcoming Budoji Workbook volume and a participation in the Reading the Budoji online course for free hosted by Mago Academy (www.magoacademy.org). Also you may be invited to the discussion forum of the Budoji illustration book project. Your materials will be credited to you, when mentioned and/or published by Dr. Hwang in Return to Mago E-Magazine (www.magoism.net) or another space of the Mago Work. Foremost, it is an opportunity for you to submit your own storytelling of a Budoji’s Story for publication. Mago Books seeks writers and illustrators for the Budoji illustration book project that involves nine volumes (www.magobooks.com).
Please address your comments and questions as comments below or in the FB group, Nine Mago Celebrations. If convenient, email is available (magoacademy@gmail.com). I will respond and discuss the point with you.
Resources
Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, The Budoji Workbook Volume 1: The Magoist Cosmogony (Chapters 1-4).
(Book Excerpt) The Budoji Workbook (Volume 1): The Magoist Cosmogony (Chapters 1-4)
(Budoji Essay 1) The Magoist Cosmogony by Helen Hye-Sook Hwang
2020 (5917 Magoma Era) Year 3 Nine Mago Celebrations
Dates July 29-August 6 PST (the 9th month the 9th day according to the Magoist Calendar, given the variation of time zones)
Theme Embrace the Dragon, the Messenger of the Cetacean Divine
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.
The focused or core implication of Magoism is yet to come! From early this year, I began to speak up on the core implication of Magoism. The monthly Magoist Studies salon meetings were launched from January of this year. Soon after, I began to offer Reading the Budoji (Epic of the Emblem Capital City) online course. The Budoji, the principal text of Magoism, is essential for us to assess the core implication of Magoism. As I said, what I have said and written for the last 20 years is only footnotes of the Budoji!
Here is a sign of the time for us. Timing is marvelous, as if my focus on the direct implication of Magoism that began in January of this year was designed to cope with the forthcoming Covid19 pandemic. Almost all schools are closed down and teachers teach students online. Economic activities have slowed down. People shop online. People don’t travel or even don’t talk to each other in the manner we used to for fear of spreading the virus. People stay home and do home-related projects. These are the kind of unprecedented changes that we did not foresee coming. As a whole, the Mago Work was designed to be carried out through online activities, while connecting people and the natural world as the Mago Descent in the first place. I am thankful for this unintentional but time-brought readiness. The mode of my advocacy for Magoism (public and online, based on the free social media tools) is ready for the Covid19 pandemic time and thereafter. It is my hope that the physical place for The Mago Academy Center and the Magoist Cetaceanism Research Center here where I live in Southern California, USA, can serve our post-Covid19 person-to-person meetings.
Amidst the colossal change that we are undergoing, we are having this year’s Nine Day Mago Celebration. And it is the ninth year of the Mago Work. I hope we can reflect back the path of Magoism in public and revisit major themes and accomplishments through a post per day for nine days. The invitation was there for you and is here again!
Check out the theme: Embrace the Dragon, the Messenger of the Cetacean Divine. We are tying knots with Magoists, the dragon, and whales among us. I have laid out nine messages for nine days. And on the last day, we will open the Mago Bookstore for 48 hours for you to download some books for free.
Contents for Nine Day Celebrations may include the below. I will utilize the materials that I have written, published, and archived, some of which have never been shared yet. I would appreciate your interests if you indicate as comments.
1. What is the Nine-Nine according to the Mago Almanac (13 months 28 days calendar)?
2. What is the Budoji (Epic of the Emblem Capital City)?
3. What is the Magoist Cosmogony?
4. What is Mago and Magoism?
5. Who is Goma, the Heavenly Shaman Queen Mother, and the Danguk Confederacy of Nine States?
6. Who is Chiu, the Shaman Warrior Queen Mother?
7. What is Magoist Cetaceanism?
8. Dragons and Sea-Mustards: How does Magoist Cetaceanism manifests?
9. Magoist Cetacean Totemism as the ultimate alliance between humans and the natural world.
Where are you at with the above themes? These themes represent a sum of my 20 years research and advocacy. It is just a beginning step for us to take collectively this year and I want you to be with us all in WE/HERE/NOW. Mago blessings to all in WE!
How Receive the nine daily posts from the Mago Books website or the Mago Work social media. In these daily posts, you will be invited to various sources including Dr. Hwang’s unpublished works. You may incorporate daily themes into your readings, workshops, or prayers as you find appropriate. Dr. Hwang will be available for your questions and connections via email and social media networks during these nine days personally. If you find a particular theme interesting, please let me know what, why and how you would like to apply to you together with an introduction of yourself (your residence, work and website etc). I can be reached magoacademy@gmail.com.
Free of charge for daily posts and personal discussions via social media or email. If this helps you, you may consider supporting the Mago Work by (1) donating any amount (Donation available below), (2) purchasing the PDF book or a print book on Magoism by Dr. Hwang (see below Resources), (3) submitting your contributions to Mago Books anthologies and Return to Mago E-Magazine, and/or (4) taking an online class, Reading the Budoji, or participating in the Magoist Studies Online Salon that Dr. Hwang facilitates.
Venue Social Media Networks (WordPress, Twitter, and Facebook)
https://twitter.com/magoism?lang=en (The Mago Web)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/353059021788526/ (Nine Mago Festivals)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/magoism (The Mago Circle)
https://www.magoacademy.org (Mago Academy)
Daily themes
I. Days 1, 2, 3 (July 29, 30, 31)
The metamorphic force of Sonic Numerology (the comic music and nine-numerology)
1. What is the Nine-Nine according to the Mago Almanac (13 months 28 days calendar)?
2. What is the Budoji (Epic of the Emblem Capital City)?
3. What is the Magoist Cosmogony?
II. Days 4, 5, 6 (August 1, 2, 3)
The Cornerstones: Mago, Magoism, and Magoists
4. What is Mago and Magoism?
5. Who is Goma, the Heavenly Shaman Queen Mother, and the Danguk Confederacy of Nine States?
6. Who is Chiu, the Shaman Warrior Queen Mother?
III. Days 7, 8, 9 (August 4, 5, 6)
The Matricentric Alliance of Humans and the Natural World
7. What is Magoist Cetaceanism?
8. Dragons and Sea-Mustards: How does Magoist Cetaceanism manifest?
9. Magoist Cetacean Totemism as the ultimate alliance between humans and the natural world.