Mago Academy is happy to announce the 3 Day New Year/Solstice Celebration for Year 4 (5918 Magoma Era or 2021 CE)! (December 17 is the New Year and December 21 is the Solstice in the 13 Month Magoist Calendar). Check out the Magoist Calendar here.

Mother Time Restored in Mago Almanac: 13 Month 28 Day Calendar.

Theme Women and Dragons in Magoist Cetaceanism, the Union that Saves All in WE

When Dec. 19, 20, and 21 (Time and date may vary according to your local time) with Dec. 16, 2019 for Virtual Midnight Vigil.

Why these 3 Days? We begin a new tradition according to the 13 Month Magoist Calendar. Tune in with Mother Time in Mago Almanac: 13 Month 28 Day Calendar (Year 4). Dec. 17 is the New Year according to the 13 Month Magoist Calendar and Dec. 21 is Winter Solstice. New Year on the new moon before the December Solstice, the first lunation we began in Year 1.

Day 2 (Dec. 20): Dragon riders and dragon slayers: A cross-cultural insight

St. Martha leashes the dragon slain by patriarchal saints/heroes, from the Hours of Henry VIII.

Dragon Palace Mother, Yonggung Buin, Korean folk painting

Ancient cultures of the world may be categorized into three groups: (1) Dragon riders, (2) Dragon slayers, (3) Dragons unknown. Put differently, the attitude toward a dragon defines a culture to be matricentric/matriarchal or patriarchal. Why is the dragon to be the criteria for defining the nature of a culture? That is because dragons represent the matricentric veneration of whales, i.e. Magoist Cetaceanism, signifying the pre-patriarchally originated bond between humans and the non-human natural world maintained by Shaman Mothers. As the paragon of Magoist Shaman Queens, whales sing/dance to bring life to all beings on earth. In short, the kind of relationship between a dragon and women or men is an indicator for a people’s attitude toward whale totemism. In patriarchy, dragons have to be slain for they symbolize the tie between women and the natural world, the latter administered by whales.

Traditional Korea belongs to the first group. The motif of riding a dragon comes in a literary and artistic expression, which indicates a whale back riding by ancient Magoist Shaman Queens, Goma, the Queen Mother, and Chiu, the Warrior Mother, in particular. That the whale-back riding homecoming journey to the Great Mother, Mago, is at the core of soteriology in religions remains esoteric at best. In this case, the dragon is portrayed as a ship, which carries people to the other side of the world (underworld), the Mother World.

Contrastingly, many mythologies and religions display the theme of slaying dragons by saints or heroes. In fact, we moderns are more familiar with dragon-slayers than dragons-riders. While such mythological and historical figures as Zeus, Perseus, Hadad, Marduk, Teshub, Apollo, Archangel Michael, and Saint George are noted for slaying a dragon, they are only a modicum of the worldwide dragon-slayers. Below are two segments on patriarchal heroes and saints who are told to have slain the dragon.

https://www.magoism.net/2019/03/special-post-1-nine-headed-snake-slain-by-patriarchal-heroes-a-cross-culural-discussion-by-mago-circle-members/

https://www.magoism.net/2020/06/special-post-9-nine-headed-snake-slain-by-patriarchal-heroes-a-cross-cultural-discussion-by-mago-circle-members/

Lastly, the veneration of dragons and whales have been simply forgotten by many peoples of the world today. Thus, many patriarchal cultures have no need to assault the female-dragon/whale bond.

2020 3 Day New Year-Solstice Celebration

Gift Sharing Event Free PDF of Mago Almanac Planner Year 4 (via email) upon free registration

Venues

The Mago Way, Mt. Shasta Goddess Temple App.

https://goddesstemple.disciplemedia.com/groups/magoway

The Nine Mago Festivals Facebook group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/353059021788526/
Email: Each day’s program will be emailed to you upon registration

Registration Free of charge. Send your application to Dr. Helen Hye-Sook Hwang (magoacademy@gmail.com) with the following information. Please indicate “New Year/Solstice Celebration Application” in the Subject.

About yourself including the place of residences and accomplishments
What makes you interested in this year’s 3 day New Year/Solstice celebration?
Are you familiar with Magoism or Magoist Cetaceanism?
Questions, suggestions, or comments

Programs

Virtual Midnight Vigil to the New Year 4, 5918 ME (Dec. 16, 2020): The Cetacean Code of the Korean Temple Bell (We begin Dec. 16, 11:50 PM). The Whale Bell Striking on Dec. 16 Midnight is free for the public. Join us at 11:50 PM on Dec. 16 and meet the New Year by the Whale Bell ringing (for 20 min).
Day 1 (Dec. 19): What is a dragon? How does it related with whales?
Day 2 (Dec. 20): Dragon riders and dragon slayers: A cross-cultural insight
Day 3 (Day. 21): Women and Dragons in Magoist Cetaceanism that saves All in WE

Upcoming Event: December 27 Magoist Studies Salon through Zoom.

See previous 3 Day New Year-Solstice Celebrations here.