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.
September 2026 S/HE Creatrix Studies Forum: Women and Shamanism
Organizer: Helen Hye-Sook Hwang Ph.D.
Time: Saturdays September 12 and September 26 at 12-2 PM PT
If you are interested in serving as an organizer or a presenter, please email Dr. Hwang (magoacademy@gmail.com) or Dr. Helen Benigni (benignih@dewv.edu). Go to the invitation announcement to serve as an organizer and presenter here. Deadline by August 31.
Registration: Free of charge, email the following information to Dr. Hwang (magoacademy@gmail.com).
- Your name and email (if you are new)
- Your country of residence (at the time of this forum session)
- What makes you join this forum?
- Would you be interested in receiving the semi-monthly Mago Pod Bulletin?
Summary: Many would agree that Shamanism is the oldest if not foundational religion of the human world. We explore the female-centered worldwide “shaman” traditions from interdisciplinary and cross-temporal perspectives. Apart from these questions, Who were/are shamans? Have shamans been subjected to persecution in the course of patriarch history? Why do I think restoring shamanism is critically important today at the threshold of the AI-baptized era? Etymology, origin, cosmology, soteriology, Goddesses, women, rituals, songs, and histories concerning Shamanism will be discussed.
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:
Kaarina Kailo
Laura Shanon
Jsabel (Ashlynd)
Leslene della Madre
Janet Rudolph
Coral Wynter
Lynn Genevieve
Max Dashu
Deepak Shimkhada
Glenys Livingstone
Luan Danaan
Christina Aro-Harle
Annie Finch
Vajra Ma
Noris Binet
Aidan Moor
Dilsa Deniz
Presenters on September 12
Helen Hye-Sook Hwang Ph.D.
Title: The Ceto-Magoist Origin of Old Korean Mu-Shamanism: The Four Elders of the Primordial Clans in the Paradisiacal Home
Summary: TBA
Presenters on September 19
Helen Hye-Sook Hwang Ph.D.
Title: The calling of Mu-Shamanism: Restoring the Matriversal Origin in the Human World in harmony with the Cosmic Music
Summary: TBA
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