Mago Academy seeks awardees for 2021 Magoist Cetacean Studies Scholarships. These scholarships are offered in the spirit of the Maternal Gift Economy. Co-sponsored by The Kolo Women’s Cross-cultural Collaboration.
- Scholarship A: 3-9 awardees per month for (1) Magoist Studies Salons (September, October, and November). Every fourth Sunday 10 AM-11:20 AM. (2) Budoji Reading/Commenting Sessions.
- Scholarship B: 3-6 awardees for Tour 1 Mago Whale Pilgrimage (October 11-17), 6 daily Zoom sessions (each session 1 hr). 6 daily meetings within a week. If one misses a session, she can’t return to the next session due to the cumulative nature of contents.
- Scholarship C: 3 awardees for Tour 2 Mago Whale Pilgrimage (December 6-12), 3 Zoom sessions (each session 1 and half hr). 3 meetings within a week. If one misses a session, she can’t return to the next session due to the cumulative nature of contents.
Methods: All sessions takes place via Zoom and email.
Deadlines: Your early applications can help deciding session times for world-wide participants.
- Scholarship A: Fourth Friday of September, October, and November 2021 (9/24 10/22, 11/26)
- Scholarship B: October 1, 2021
- Scholarship C: November 1, 2021
Application requirements (multiple scholarships will be considered). All awardees are required to submit a post-event reflection in writing or creative means by no later than one month after the event. The length of writing (a short essay, one paragraph, or poem etc) and the medium are open.
- Scholarship A: One must qualify two of the following conditions or the equivalent. See qualification criteria below.
- Scholarship B: One must qualify three of the following conditions or the equivalent. See qualification criteria below.
- Scholarship C: One must have completed Tour 1 Mago Whale Pilgrimage.
Submission: Email to Dr. Helen Hwang (magoacademy@gmail.com).
Qualification Criteria (Some of these qualifications are required due to the complex and multifaceted nature of Magoist Cetacean Studies):
- Have read Dr. Hwang’s books, The Mago Way and Mago Almanac Planner.
- Have participated in Magoist Studies Monthly Salon.
- Have been a close reader of Dr. Hwang’s research on Magoism via Return to Mago E-Magazine and Goggle’s academia.edu.
- Have taken the course, Reading the Budoji.
- Have participated in Mago Pilgrimage to Korea.
- Have contributed to Mago Books anthology projects such as She Rises trilogy, Seasons of the Goddess, and Goddesses in Myth, History and Culture and/or Return to Mago E-Magazine.
- Have been an affirmative member of The Mago Circle, Facebook group, for a significant period of time.
Application must provide the following questions as well as the type of scholarships, your name, contact information, place of residence, and C.V. or Resume. Do not exceed 300 words in answering all three questions below.
- How are you qualified the above criteria?
- Why are you interested in a scholarship or more?
- How do you foresee that your scholarship can better yourself, your people, and/or the world, if chosen?
Magoist Cetaceanism has come to me as soteriology for All at this critical time of the planetary journey. I am grateful for this new venture of Mago Academy! You are invited to the feast of what I have researched and discovered about this fascinating topic. Offering scholarship is a fruit of my visions, which is made possible by Mago Sisters and Associates as well as my personal sponsors and patrons who have shown me the maternal way of sharing our gifts widely. Looking forward to seeing you in these events! Cetacean Mother Blessings to All in WE!
Mago Whale Pilgrims Say:
“We are informed that the shaman queens of the archaic Mago civilization recognized the gigantic whale as the majestic mother of our planet – her deep infra-sounding tuning into the very song of Mother Earth 7, 8Hz. In this course, Dr. Helen Hwang takes you on an amazing tour to the oldest gynocentric civilization that invented housebuilding, heating systems, nursing babies – and the ethos and mythos of transpacific voyages on a whale’s back ….” Kirsten Brunsgaard (Stockholm, Sweden)
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“This Pilgrimage Tour 1 was a real adventure of awe and discovery of the Mother of All nations aka the most beautiful and meaningful and wholesome Mother World (Magoism). It seems like we are riding Serendipity (perhaps can be viewed as our dragon or our space) in our Whale Pilgrimage. Synchronicity is our time, the time given by us in making this Whale Pilgrimage to imprint the Dragon in our life, we, who are on board with Helen. What a dragon journey led by Helen, and each of us must have had a whale of a time!” Anna Chew (Singapore)
2021 Magoist Studies Monthly Salon
2021 Virtual Mago Whale Pilgrimage to Korea
Theme The Calling of Whales and Dragons to WE/HERE/NOW
Words of Invitation What is the call of whales and dragons? And what does it mean that we listen to the calling of whales? These questions will navigate our whale-seeking journeys. Listening to the call of whales is a journey. Cetaceanist seekers enter a collective pilgrimage with whales on Earth. Magoist Cetaceanism shows us that our lives are inseparable from the work of whales. Not just human lives but also all terrestrial lives. 2021 Mago Pilgrimage to Cetacean Korea aims to achieve the following four-fold goals. Firstly, participants will be introduced to the legacy of Magoist Cetaceanism thickly infused in traditional Korean culture. Secondly, we will invoke the Magoist Cosmogony to understand the cosmogonic feature of whale songs. Thirdly, we are given the cetacean identity of dragons in the myth of the pacifying flute. Lastly, we will explore and join the whale-back riding homecoming journey.
“The metaphoric perception that we humans live inside the body of a whale runs through the major cultural inventions of traditional Korea. That houses, temples, and palaces as well as tombs, mounds, sweat lodges, and temple bells are built in the shape of a whale’s belly remains esoteric even among modern Koreans. One may think that these insights are my wishful interpretations. Come see and listen to the Whale Bell! Its whale-shaped mallet and its numerous whale names can’t be mistaken! Behold the roof architecture in the image of a whale’s back! This is not just referring to a roof silhouette looking like a whale’s back. The roof ridge, the decorative end tiles, the male and female titles, and the structure profusely indicate cetacean designs and names. Behold the dragon head and tail carvings in the temple and palace buildings. They go with the whale back-like roof! Behold the ornate dragon spout of water spring channels. Behold the traditional floor heating system called the whale of a heated rock (온돌 고래 Ondol Gorae). And Korea’s Eastern Sea is formerly called the Sea of Whales (鯨海 Gyeonghae). There are more: Come see the postpartum nutrition of the sea mustard soup (미역국 miyeok-guk) or the birthday soup, served for Korean women, her baby, and the whole family, which is adopted from the custom of whale mothers. And like a mother whale carries her cub on her back (to help it breathing in the air), Korean mothers and grandmothers carry the baby on her back by using the blanket called “podaegi (포대기)” to wrap the baby around on one’s back with attached straps. A comprehensive discussion of the calling of whales in Magoist Cetaceanism requires field trips and audio-visual materials to see and feel.” (From my essay in Return to Mago E-Magazine (https://magoism.net), “Magoist Cetaceanism: Why do we listen to the calling of whales and dragons?“)
- Tour 1 (April 12-18, or June 14-20, or October 11-17, 2021) no prerequisites required
Tuning to the calling of whales: We will (1) examine bio-sonic-aquatic-environmental features of whales, (2) explore the legacy of whales by visiting the following sites: Bangudae petroglyphs and the Sea of Whales (Korea’s Eastern Sea), whale myths and tales concerning particular persons, towns, and place-names, cetacean terms and sayings, whales in postpartum customs (“miyeok-guk, the birthday soup” and “podaegi, the baby carrying blanket on one’s back”), whales in the house heating system (ondol, traditional floor-heating architecture), (3) the Whale Bell (the whale-shaped mallet and whale names) and (4) some cross-cultural parallels such as nine-fold patterns, musical instruments, ondol in native peoples of Alaska (U.S.), Okhotsk (Russia), and beyond.
(For details, please read below.)
2021 Virtual Mago Pilgrimage to Cetacean Korea: The Calling of Whales and Dragons to WE/HERE/NOW
“Having barely dipped my toes into the deeps of Whale-Mother Ocean or the far reaches of Her Cosmic Vibrations in the last few months of 2021, I have already tasted Her Beneficent Healing and influence in my studio work and look forward to getting my feet wet in the waves of to-gatherness in which dedicated women seek, support, and comfort each other, as they uncover ancient Woman Herstory and Womb-an Truth at long last. I look forward to the camaraderie of next year’s Whale Bell Ringing Ceremony with joy. Thank you for the opportunity!” (Lizzy Bluebell a.k.a. Stanis Vanous, Arkansas USA)