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.
Day 5: Who is Goma, the Heavenly Queen Mother, and the Danguk Confederacy of Nine States? Better known as Ungnyeo (Bear/Sovereign Woman) among modern Koreans, Goma remains much underrepresented and misrepresented in the world. When it comes to the topic of Goma, a large number of primary sources are available. Once assessed within the mytho-history of Magoism (see the charts in Day 2), she is everywhere, visible in the very foundation myth of Korea, place-names, cultural manifestations, religions, lore, literature, and more. Goma was the founding Shaman Queen of the Danguk Confederacy of Nine Hans (pre-patriarchal Magoist Peoples) dated ca. 3898 BCE-2333 BCE. She was defied the greatest deity on earth (born of a woman), the Heavenly Queen Mother. And she was venerated throughout generations in the ancient world, according to the Handan Gogi (Old Histories of Han and Dan), one of the two principal texts of Magoism together with the Budoji.
Magoist Spirituality owes to Goma. We humans are able to know the Great Mother thanks to Goma’s teaching of the Magoist Cosmogony. Self-awakened to the metamorphic force of Sonic Numerology, Magoists undertake the terrestrial task of administering the sonic quality of all beings in harmony with the nine-fold cosmic music. Because she is the teacher of Magoism, the Way of the Great Mother, her divinity is expressed as the Magoma divine, a merged persona of the Great Mother (Mago) and the Shaman Queen Mother (Goma). Such examples are Gurang (Mago with her eight Shaman daughters), Mazu (the Heavenly Queen Mother), Xiwangmu (the Queen Mother of the West), and Amaterasu (the Ancestral Mother of Japan’s Royalty). As an originator of the symbol of nine, Goma manifests as the nine-fold female divine as well as the nine-fold patterns of the ancient world including Nine Muses, Nine Matrikas, the nine-headed Gwaneum (Guanyin), the Dark Woman of Nine Heavens, and the nine forms of Durga, to name a few. Goma’s none-human symbols include nine dragons, nine-tailed fox, the nine-headed phoenix, and the nine heavens.
Goma is the teacher, civilizer, and savior of the human world. Standing at the pre-patriarchal time in the late fourth millennium BCE, she foresaw the arrival of patriarchal rules and prepared the human world from the ensuing suffering, chaos, and annihilation. Revealed to the cetacean divine as she, having invented the sea-traveling technology, traveled widely to the pre-patriarchal world, Goma inscribed the unbreakable bond between humans and the natural world represented by whales in the socio-cultural-political organizations of the Danguk confederacy of N. Put differently, Goma cultivated human consciousness/intelligence/civilization as the prime means of self-redemption. The Magoist Calendar, the 13 month 28 day, owes to Goma (see Day 1).
Below is my introduction to the topic of Goma and Magoism for a monthly meeting of Magoist Studies Salon:
Goma is a much underestimated and misrepresented Goddess from Old Magoist Korea (the pre-patriarchal people of the Great Mother). She is the Goddess who taught us about Mago, the Creatrix. In other words, we are able to understand Mago, the Creatrix, thanks to the teaching of Goma. Goma is better known as other names, Ungnyeo (Bear/Sovereign Woman), Heavenly Queen or Mazu, Gwaneum (Guanyin), the Queen Mother of the West, Amaterasu, Jiutianxiannu (Spiritual Woman of Nine Heavens), and others. Because of her teaching on Mago (Magoism), she is often conflated with Mago in folk traditions. Thus, her divinity manifests as the Magoma divine, a merged persona of Goma and Mago. Goma was a Shaman (Mu) Queen who is attributed to the foundation of the Danguk confederacy of nine states (Nine Hans) dated 3898 BCE to 2333 BCE. Deified as the greatest deity of the world, Goma was widely worshipped in the form of Nine Mothers or Nine Sisters. Goma is the greatest teacher, civilizer, and queen. In fact, Goma is the most favored deity among those who were born of a woman. Goma’s symbols include the Tree of Life, the nine-tailed fox, the nine-suns. We will focus on the Goma Myth, which tells us who she was and what she did. In short, Goma, foreseeing the rise of patriarchy in the course of time, instated the teaching of Mago (Magoism), or the Origin Story of the Creatrix, with which we who are born under the patriarchal tribulation won’t be destroyed. She is the ultimate savior for all terrestrial beings. Her teaching is reflected in the Budoji (Epic of the Emblem Capital City), the principal text of Magoism.
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, “Goma, the Shaman Ruler of Old Magoist East Asia/Korea and Her Mythology” in Goddesses in Myth, History and Culture (Mago Books, 2018).
Goma and Magoism as the June Topic of Magoist Studies Online Salon:
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.