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.
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.
Day 9: Magoist Cetacean Totemism as the ultimate alliance between humans and the natural world. Happy the Nine-Ninth on August 6th according to the restored Magoist Calendar (13 months and 28 days)! What does the Nine-Ninth mean? It means that we earthlings are passing by the double ninth point of timespace, the Ninth Month (of 13 months) and the Ninth Day (of 28 days), on our planetary journey guided by the moon. Note that the moon has reached the ninth month (one month is 28 days) and the ninth day (one day is 13 hours): Put differently, today the moon has passed the approx. 252nd day (9×28 days, out of 364 days for a year, 13 months) in the lunar orbit of the sky and the approx. 117th hour (9×13 hours, out of 364 hours for a month, 28 days). Both 252 (2+5+2=9) and 117 (1+1+7=9) are the number nine in the digital root (find out what the digital root is)! The Nine-Ninth marks the timespace wherein the number nine, the Great Mother’s Number in distinction from the rest of eight daughter numbers, is fully visible. The Nine-Ninth marks the Great Mother’s TimeSpace wherein the metamorphic force of the universe, Sonic Numerology, fully exposes itself. It is the one special/auspicious day of the year! More to the point, today our planet earth marks the half point between a Solstice and an Equinox! If you are in the Northern Hemisphere, you are heading to the Autumnal Equinox. If you are in the Southern Hemisphere, you are heading to the Spring Equinox.
On this auspicious day, we are here to celebrate the whale divine! The message is that we humans, the descendants of the Great Mother, are not alone on this journey of looking after Life on Earth! Today we are reminded of the Goodness of Whale Mothers, the consciousness that Magoist Shaman Mothers taught us, the human kind, once and for all at the dawn of a new time marked by the human civilization that we know.
That said, what do whales to do with the number nine or the nine-fold cosmic music, which I call Sonic Numerology? In answering this question, we will address the Cetacean implication of the Magoist Cosmogony. Remember that all beings are born, nurtured, and transformed through the nine-fold cosmic music, according to the Magoist Cosmogony (see the online class, Reading the Budoji, or below in Resources)? In short, ancient Magoist Mothers saw whales as the paragon of the terrestrial ruler on the task of managing the terrestrial sonic resonance in accordance with the nine-fold cosmic music. [Note that modern scientists admit the difficult nature of cetology (a study of cetaceans). We know why: Whales transcend the human standard in origin (they arrived much earlier than humans), size (they are much bigger than humans), and habitat (they live in the sea/water). Knowing whales itself warrants an advanced level of human intelligence backed by technology. One becomes a Cetacean Magoist upon understanding whales as they are. Then, we would ask how one communicates about the divine whale? We need symbols and metaphors to convey the divine nature of whales.] Magoist Mothers employed a metaphoric language to convey cetacean divinity. Goma, the teacher, civilizer, and savior, cultivated human intelligence that made it possible to comprehend the cetacean divine. And she and her women invented the symbol of a dragon to teach people the divine governance of whales from the sea. Dragons were born as the messenger of Whale Ruler the Great. So were the human specialists who interpreted the dragon. Even when the whale totemism was made invisible together with Magoism in the course of patriarchal history, the dragon survived. In this case, the dragon was mistakenly identified as the divine who controlled rain and weather.
What is a dragon? Here is the nine-numerological implication of a dragon. According to Korean and East Asian sources, a dragon is an imaginary animal who represents nine animals. The nine animals refer to all animal species and their associates, the natural world. The dragon is told to have the body of nine animals; the nose of a pig, the eyes of a rabbit, the head of a carmel, the ears of a cow, the antler of a deer, the toenails of a hawk, the neck of a snake, the scales of a carp, and the fists of a tiger. Furthermore, ancient Koreans saw the scales of a dragon to be 81, a number that signifies the full manifestation of the double nines (9×9=81). The nine symbolism of a dragon is all too evident to miss. And they come as nine dragons, understood as a signature symbol of the ruler in later times. And we have seen the popular iconography that nine dragons accompany Gwaneum or the Goma. It is too numerous to show the iconographic theme of “the Dragon Palace Mother” seated on the back of a dragon in the sea background. Here are a few related images:
More on the dragon. Let us track back to the Korean linguistic expression, Gorae-deung (고래등 the back of a whale), which I mentioned on Day 7. The theme of riding the back of a whale, both symbolically and actually, comprises the backbone of Magoist soteriology. It refers to the homecoming journey of Magoists by riding the back of a whale or boarding a dragon ship to the Abode of Mago, the Great Mother, in the northern center of the sky. This northbound journey guided by the Northern Dipper of the Seven Stars for the living and the dead refers to a personal, communal, and cosmic journey of earthlings. The ethos of the whale-back riding homecoming journey runs through traditional Korean thoughts, religions, customs, and linguistic, architectural, literary, artistic, and cultural expressions. Its discussion is too bulky for this timespace. This topic has drawn some cross-cultural resemblances, which I have discussed with a group of Mago Sisters privately (see below). If you are interested, please email me for the password.
I will close this year’s Nine Day Mago Celebrations with the following remark: Magoist Cetaceanism warrants (M)otherworldly visions and awakenings, which are METAMORPHIC. Once awakened to Magoist Cetaceanism, one will never be the same as before. How does that work? Magoist Cetacenism does all the work. One just needs to allow the process of knowing to take place in one’s mind. For me, knowing Magoist Cetaceanism has defined a spiritual journey into the ever-unfolding reality of WE/HERE/NOW. It entails ongoing, unimpeded, and guiding revelations one after the other, which is very personal, cosmic, and political at the same time. I have found myself a Cetacean Magoist!
My question to us is: How do we collectively prepare the mind? Awakening to the whale divine requires the encompassing perspective of Mago, the Great Mother. In other words, we are not content with modern scientific approaches to cetology. We are NOT going to take the whale theme away from Magoism, the Way of the Great Mother. We are breaking down the divides not only among people but also between humans and the natural world. Restoring the bond between whale mothers and human mothers is the key to a modern revival of Magoist Cetaceanism. Mago blessings to all in WE and see you again in 2021 Nine-Ninth Celebrations!
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
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.