Mago Whale Pilgrimages

Since 2021, Dr. Hwang launches Virtual Mago Whale Pilgrimages to Korea. All inquiries should be emailed to Dr. Hwang (magoacademy@gmail.com).

2022 Virtual Mago Pilgrimage to Cetacean Korea: The Calling of Whales and Dragons to WE/HERE/NOW

2021 Virtual Mago Pilgrimage to Cetacean Korea: The Calling of Whales and Dragons to WE/HERE/NOW

What is Mago Pilgrimage? It is an annual program that undertakes a travel, actual or virtual, to the homeland of Magoism, primarily but not limited to South Korea. One may take it toward Magoist Certificate Programs as Mago Scholar. Dr. Helen Hye-Sook Hwang has led Mago Pilgrimage to Korea since 2013.

What Mago Pilgrimage means to me by Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, Ph.D.

Helen Hye-Sook Hwang is scholar, activist, and advocate of Magoism, anciently originated tradition that venerates Mago as the Great Goddess. She earned her MA and Ph.D. in Religion with emphasis on Feminist Studies from Claremont Graduate University, CA. She also studied toward an MA degree in East Asian Studies at UCLA, CA. Hwang has taught for universities in California and Missouri, U.S.A. Since 2012, Dr. Hwang has founded, directed, co-edited, written for the Return to Mago E-Magazine (https://magoism.net), Mago Academy (https://magoacademy.org), and Mago Books (https://magobooks.com) and co-founded and directed Mago Pool Circle, Spiral Journey in the Cosmic Mother and Gynapedia… (Continue to read).

2019 Mago Pilgrimage to Korea

Theme Reunited in the Land of Goma (Ungnyeo), the Shaman Queen of Old Magoism

When May 29-June 11 (14 days)

Goma or Ungnyeo (Female Bear/Sovereign), the best known but most misconstrued Goddess of Old Magoist Korea who laid foundation of modern civilizations once and for all before the rise of patriarchal rules in East Asia. It was Goma who taught us about Mago, the Nine Mago Creatrix, and whose gynocentric civilizations were carried out across cultures in the fourth millennium BCE and thereafter. We will trek the mytho-historical-cultural heritages of Goma permeated in traditional Korea including topographies (Mago Cave, Peaks, Rocks/Boulders, Stonewalls), Buddhist Temples, and Mago Stronghold as well as seemingly isolated but intriguing customs (sea mustard birthday soup), slow food (femented food preparation), Samsin Halmi (Triad Great Mother) dinner altar, and carrying a baby on one’s back by using the podaegi blanket, and museums (whales and the Seon).

2018 Mago Pilgrimage to Korea

Theme The Origin Story that saves all, the Nine Mago Creatrix and Mago Stronghold

When July 3-11 (9 days)

Facilitator Helen Hye-Sook Hwang

Places to visit

Magoist (indigenous faith) practices in Korean cultures and religions including the main hall of Daeung-jeon in Buddhist Temples
Mudang (Korean Shaman) Shrine
Mago Stronghold, Jiri Mountains (July 8th)
Peak of Nine Wells in Mt. Moon Rising (Wolchul-san), Yeongam (Spiritual Rock) County, South Jeolla Province (July 9th)
Other cultural places

2016 Mago Pilgrimage to Korea

Upcoming in June 9-22, 2016. Its theme is “In Search of Acoustic Balance in Ancient Magoist Korea.” We will explore how the Magoist cosmogonic mytheme of cosmic music is manifested in the hidden treasures of traditional Korean culture. New discoveries in modern times are imminent! Committed participants are Anna Tzanova and Dr. Mary Ann Beavis from outside Korea and Dr. Jooyoung Hong, Dr. Myungjoo Kim, Dr. Jongmyung Kim, and Dr. Heejong Woo from Korea. Places to visit include Seoul, Mago Stronghold (Jiri Mountains) and South Coastal Region, Busan, Ulsan (South Gyeongsang), Gyeongju (North Gyeongsang) and Yeongju (North Gyeongsang). All are tentative at this point.

마고아카데미 활동사항 2016

2015 Virtual Mago Pilgrimage to Korea!