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.
August 2026 S/HE Creatrix Studies Forum: Interweaving Matriversal Cosmology
Organizer: Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, Ph.D.
Time: Saturdays August 8 and August 22 at 12 PM – 2 PM PT
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Summary: This forum unpacks Matriveralism (the Way of the Maternal Universe). My Ceto-Magoist research on Old Korea (the Land and People of Mago, the Creatrix) releases the foundational concept that reality is matriversal. I hold that the pre-patriarchal world flowered Matriversal Civilization by way of cetacean-human hybrid intelligence/spirituality. At the core of its Ceto-Magoist/Matriversal Cosmology lies the following four core premises. Firstly, ALL in the Matriverse are born, grow, and transform through the Cosmic Music, represented by the Cosmic Mother. Secondly, reality is shaped by Mago, the Cosmic Mother, and HER Progenies; Reality is Matriversal. Thirdly, humans are the cause for the two terrestrial catastrophes, which inflict the terrestrial community; (1) dietary-biological-ecological fall, predation, and (2) epistemic-calendric-political fall, patriarchy. Lastly, humans are missioned to reinvent the original symbiotic ontology, Matriversal Ontology (the Way of Becoming), in harmony with the Cosmic Music. The legacy of Ceto-Magoism (the Whale-guided Way of Mago, the Creatrix) is ultimately soteriological; The destiny of the terrestrial community lies in collective human endeavor to awaken and teach forthcoming humans about Matriversal Ontology. The legacy of Ceto-Magoist/Matriversal Cosmology manifests through worldwide female, maternal, divine or demonic, and numeric symbols-narratives-cultural expressions.
Biography: Dr. Hwang is the founder of Mago Academy and the field of Creatrix Studies. She is a born poet, philosopher, and advocate for Life of ALL and has encountered Ceto-Magoism (the Whale-guided Way of the Creatrix) through her doctoral research on Mago, the Cosmic Mother/Creatrix. She is currently leading the Matriversal Feminist Movement together with Mago Work volunteers. Dr. Hwang received an M.A. and a Ph.D. degrees in Religion with the emphasis on Women’s Studies. To support her research on Magoism (the Way of the Creatrix), she enrolled in an M.A. program in East Asian Studies and specialized in Korean Buddhism at UCLA. Authored, edited, and published many books and essays by Mago Books and the peer-reviewed academic journal, S/HE: An International Journal of Goddess Studies, and Return to Mago E-Magazine. She is currently teaching the core and elective courses of Creatrix Studies.
Participants include:
Leslene della-Madre
Coral Wynter
Janet Rudolph
Kaarina Kailo
Lynn Genevieve
Danica Anderson
Shelly Nixon
Louise Pare
Heather Gehron-Rice
Barbara Daughter
Presenters on August 8
Helen Hye-Sook Hwang Ph.D.
Title: Trans-patriarchal Matriversalism
Summary: The pre-patriarchally originated matriversal consciousness did not die. It lives on as the legacy of the Goddess. The Goddess represents Matriversal Ontology, the Becoming of the Matriverse. The Goddess and her associations encode how the pre-patriarchal world shaped soteriological ontology for the terrestrial community. I will explain the first two premises: “Firstly, ALL in the Matriverse are born, grow, and transform through the Cosmic Music, represented by the Cosmic Mother. Secondly, reality is shaped by Mago, the Cosmic Mother, and HER Progenies; Reality is Matriversal.” The following questions will selectively be discussed: What is the Cosmic Music or the Music of Spheres? How do we assess cetacean-human hybrid intelligence? How do we understand that the ninefold symbolism including Nine Magos and Nine Dragons represents the Ninefold Cosmic Music? What does trinity imply? How do we take the fact that the major world-wide Goddesses and Gods come in numerological and/or themes of weather and rain? What about the dragon symbol? Why is the dragon demonized in the world’s major myths and religions? What about the theme of slaying the nine-headed dragon/serpent/sea-monster by patriarchal heroes?
Biography (see above)
Leslene della-Madre
Title: The PlasMA Goddess and Her Iconography
Summary: I offer a point of view that I feel adds a different dimension to an inquiry into the goddess story. I believe plasMA mythology and EU (Electric Universe) cosmology take us in a new direction of true wonder and excitement in reinterpreting physics, biology, astronomy, cosmology, mythology, and other disciplines, giving us an interdisciplinary map of our multidimensional being in a vast web of autopoietic, electric connection. EU cosmology casts a wide net of questions across the various scientific domains, as does plasMA cosmology. In this discussion, I show how dancing plasMA displays seen in the skies of our ancestors might have been the backdrop for the global goddess imagery, dating from the Paleolithic into the Neolithic. Given that, I will look at some of the more well-known prehistoric goddess iconography from the Paleolithic and then look at some imagery that embodied the imprint of the more recent celestial occurrences that continued on into the Neolithic.
Biography: Author, poet, artist, feminist shamanic practitioner, birth doula, death midwife, feminist philosopher, independent scholar, mother and grandmother. A cousin of Einstein, she has challenged mainstream beliefs in physics, cosmology and patriarchal religions. She has written two books, Midwifing Death: Returning to the Arms of the Ancient Mother and She Who Spins the Coils of Creation: Sacred Female Cosmology in the Electric PlasMA Universe, and co-edited a textbook, Trauma-Informed Care. She established a center for shamanic healing, Winged Women Return, over forty years ago offering feminist shamanic teachings, classes, individual sessions, ceremony and rituals for life passages.
Presenters on August 22
Helen Hye-Sook Hwang Ph.D.
Title: Two Human-caused Colossal Catastrophes and Matriversal Soteriology
Summary: The divine matriversal force guides humanity through the principle of symbiotic causality or causal becoming. Mago, the Cosmic Mother, intervenes in terrestrial reality according to the principle of symbiotic causality. Early humans lost paradisiacal ontology from which condition patriarchy rose and spread. Whatever has happened on the planet Earth impacts on the Matriverse operated by the Cosmic Music. Humans, the progeny of the Cosmic Mother, are entrusted to assist in controlling the terrestrial sonic resonance in harmony with the Cosmic Music. The Human Story is ever-presently written in the matriversal reality of WE/HERE/NOW. This session builds on the first session’s contents and discuss the following: “Thirdly, humans are the cause for the two colossal catastrophes, which inflict the terrestrial community; (1) dietary-biological-ecological fall, predation, and (2) epistemic-calendric-political fall, patriarchy. Lastly, humans are missioned to reinvent the original symbiotic ontology, Matriversal Ontology (the Way of Becoming), in harmony with the Cosmic Music.” Matriversal Ontology is currently revised as a continuum with the two human-caused terrestrial catastrophes.
Biography (see above)
Coral Wynter Ph.D.
Title: The Ancient Goddesses, the planet Venus and the Origin of the Patriarchy
Summary: This talk will concentrate on the status of women and how it changed 5000 years ago.I will explain the myths, religions, the rise of patriarchy and the intervention of the cosmos. Two main points are that the gods and goddesses worshipped by the Egyptians and in Mesopotamia were actually the planets, some of which were much closer to Earth than they are now. Secondly my hypothesis is that the downfall of women is linked to the planets, particularly Venus. I will try to show how this resulted in the removal of women from society. Thirdly, I will explain further from where the new comet and planet Venus emerged. I have listened carefully to the earlier talks on Mago from the June conference and I will try to incorporate explanations to some of the events mentioned.
Biography: I graduated in science at Sydney University, in chemistry, mathematics and biochemistry. I completed a PhD in neurochemistry at the University of London. I worked at the Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas. In Sydney, I continued my biochemical research, for 15 years on colon cancer genetics at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research. I have published 30 papers in science. I have been a socialist and feminist activist for 40 years, fighting for jobs, education, wages and abortion rights. I wrote a book, Behind the Downfall of Women (2019), conflating new ideas in astronomy and early human society.
Dancia Anderson Ph.D.
Title: The Matriversal Epigenetic Convergence of Herstory, Ritual, and Biology
Summary: This course examines the convergence of epigenetics, archaeology, film, and oral tradition through a matriversal lens that understands biology as fundamentally female, relational, and diverse. Drawing on Marija Gimbutas’ work on the Civilization of the Goddess, Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum and Louise Pare’s scholarship on the Black Madonna, and contemporary filmmaking, participants explore how ancestral experiences become embodied and transmitted across generations.
Recent advances in epigenetic research demonstrate that environmental experiences and trauma alter gene expression and create biological memories that influence future generations. The course examines mitochondrial DNA, oral memory, ritual, and artistic expression as interconnected archives of human experience. By bridging social science, psychology, archaeology, and biological science, this course offers an interdisciplinary framework for understanding how women’s histories, cultural practices, and visual storytelling preserve and reactivate ancient knowledge systems that continue to shape identity, memory, and collective becoming.
Biography: Danica Anderson, Ph.D., BCFT, FAAETS, DAAETS, is a forensic traumatologist, social scientist, and founder of The Kolo: Women’s Cross-Cultural Collaboration. Her fieldwork across Afghanistan, Bosnia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Sri Lanka centers the forensic study of women’s war trauma, social epigenetics, and the transmission of embodied memory. A UNESCO Scientific & Education Council and former expert with the International Criminal Court, Dr. Anderson examines how female bodies archive collective trauma across generations. Her work interrogates dominant scientific narratives and reclaims somatic knowledge systems rooted in archaeology, gender-based justice, and intercultural interpretation of trauma.
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