What is the S/HE Creatrix Studies Forum? It is an online platform hosted by Mago Academy to gather and share information and activism among scholars and students whose work concerns the Cosmic Mother/the Creatrix/the Source.
July 2026 S/HE Creatrix Studies Forum: The Goddess as Time-Keeper
Organizer: Helen Benigni Ph.D.
Time: Saturdays July 11 and July 25 at 10:00 AM – 12 PM PT
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Summary: The Goddess as Time-Keeper is a matriversal perception given to the Goddesses of the Earth such as Gaia and Rhea as well as the Goddesses of Sovereignty, such as Hera, Athena and The Morrigan. In the three moons of summer, these Goddesses keep the time of the earth through tending the garden, the house and the land. This yearly cycle represented in the night sky as the constellations of The Summer Triangle and The Serpent Bearer with their birds, snakes and waters of our garden on earth illuminates the cycles of the Divine Feminine as relevant to both the earth and the night sky. However, these Goddesses also measure cycles beyond the year as Time-Keepers of the Cosmos. Might we add to that knowledge considering our current changes in political and environmental chaos to embrace the larger cycles of change before us by initiating a new era in feminine studies that acknowledges those larger cycles of change in our world. The Nineteen Year Cycle of the Moon seen in The Horns of Consecration at Knossos and at the center of Stonehenge as well as the life cycles represented on the stones of time in the patterns of Venus as the Evening and Morning Star are all part of our feminine awareness that is represented by The Goddess as Time-Keeper.
Biography: Helen Benigni (Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania) is a published author and Professor Emerita in Comparative Mythology at Davis and Elkins College in Elkins, West Virginia. For several decades, Helen has been teaching classes in Comparative Mythology with an emphasis on Goddess studies. Her books, The Myth of the Year (Mago Books, 2023), The Goddess and the Bull (University Press of America, 2007), and The Mythology of Venus (University Press of America, 2013) incorporate the research findings of archeoastronomers to determine the myths associated with the cycles found on the ancient calendars of the Greeks and the Celts. Identifying the Goddesses of the matri-local cultures of the ancients with the seasons represented by the lunar, solar and stellar bodies has been a major endeavor in the study of archetypes, with an emphasis on the feminine archetypes of the celestial realms. Helen’s research with the Hellenic Studies Center in Washington D.C., her many trips to ancient sites, and her collaborative efforts with scholars in mythology, astronomy, archeology, and art have led to her discovery of the presence of the Goddesses in the night sky and the continued renewal of the Goddesses in contemporary times.
Participants include:
July 11: The Goddess and the Bull
Helen Hye-Sook Hwang (Presenter)
Heather Gehron-Rice
Laura Shannon
Jen Smith
Joan Cichon
Barbara Carter
Lynn Genevieve
jsabel bilqis
Kirsten Clausen
Heidi Ann Howes
Michelle Mondot
Shelly Nixon
July 25: Mothers of Wisdom
Lila Moore (Presenter)
Laura Shannon (Presenter)
Heather Gehron-Rice
Jen Smith
Joan Cichon
Barbara Carter
Lynn Genevieve
jsabel bilqis
Helen Hye-Sook Hwang
Kirsten Clausen
Heidi Ann Howes
Michelle Mondot
Shelly Nixon
Presenters on July 11
Helen Benigni Ph.D.
Title: The Goddess and the Bull (see above)
Helen Hye-Sook Hwang Ph.D.
Title: Creatrix Studies unleashes the Matriversal Talk
Summary: Creatrix Studies names the ancient knowing of the Matriverse (Maternally-perceived Universe). The newly coined word, Matriverse, unleashes the ancient worldview that the cosmos is perceived as the Home/Womb/Tomb of the Cosmic Mother. My study of Ceto-Magoism (the Whale-guided Way of Mago, the Creatrix) offers abundant data on how pre-patriarchal Ceto-Magoists across cultures cultivated and flowered Matriversal Civilization. That Matriversal Civilization comprises the foundation of human ontology (the way of becoming), which we moderns inherited, has been forgotten. The matriversal consciousness manifests as myths/stories/texts, religious/spiritual/cultural practices, and cultural/symbolic/linguistic expressions about the Great Mother. Among them is the mytho-cultural-thealogical ethos of Old Korea (People and Land of Mago, the Creatrix), which I call the whale-back-riding or dragon-riding homecoming journey to the Abode of Mago in the Northern Center of the Matriverse (the whale-back-riding journey for short). The concept of the Whale-back-riding journey comes to us as the prototype of soteriology, reiterated in worldwide religions to this day. We, Magoists, under the leadership of Goma, the Shaman Queen founder of Ceto-Magoism in the 4th millennium BCE, participate in Matriversal Soteriology through which we encounter the original trinity, Mago, Gorae (whales), and Goma.
Presenters on July 25
Helen Benigni Ph.D.
Title: Mothers of Wisdom (see above)
Lila Moore (Presenter)
Laura Shannon (Presenter)
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