Citation: S/HE: An International Journal of Goddess Studies V1 N2 (2022)
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Published date: October 31, 2022
Publisher: Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, Ph.D.
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Abstract:The Budoji (Epic of the Emblem Capital City), compiled and written by Bak Jesang (363-418?) of Silla (57 BCE-935), is an ancient Korean testimony to the mytho-history of matriversal (maternally universal) Koreans. Reappeared in the 1980s, the Budoji unleashes the forgotten story of the (M)Other World. Its teaching of Magoism, the Way of the Creatrix, culminates in matri-cosmology, which magnetizes severed entities in the patriarchal mind and pieces them into the original whole. The Budoji offers a soteriological roadmap to the matriversal consciousness with which human individuals and societies may overcome the consequences of the two colossal tribulations of the human world: the consequential loss of an innate self-regulating ability caused by the eating of living beings for food and the patriarchal takeover of matriversal sovereignty. Ultimately, humans are summoned to the task of restoring a harmonic terrestrial sonic resonance, in alliance with the natural world, to the Cosmic Music (Sonic Numerology), the metamorphic force of the matriverse. The Budoji defines Korean identity as the People of the Creatrix who flowered, spread, and bequeathed the legacy of matriversal confederacies prior to the rise of patriarchy. The course of Korean mytho-history unveils the lineage of Mu (Shaman) Head Mothers, also known as Mountain Deities, for the period of seven millennia (from ca. 7199 BCE to the early 5th century CE) and their socio-political-civilizational efforts to uphold matriversal sovereignty on the planet Earth.
Keywords: cosmology, cosmic music, sonic numerology, mu shamans, confederacy, matriversal sovereignty, Budo, Magoism, Silla, Korea, Mother, Mago, Goma, Creatrix, cetaceanism, Wusheng-laomu, methodology
This essay offers an introductory discussion of the Budoji (Epic of the Emblem Capital City),[1] the principal text of Magoism,[2] compiled and written by Bak Jesang[3] (363-418?) of Silla (57 BCE-935).[4] Reappeared in public in the mid-1980s with its Korean translation, the Budoji comes to moderns a text of the (M)Other World. The Budoji’s thus-far unheard of but convincing narrative flings the door open to the suppressed mytho-history of pre- and proto-Chinese (read pre- and proto-patriarchal) Koreans. Declaring human ancestors as offspring of the Creatrix, the Budoji chronicles the story of ancient Koreans and the legacy of Magoism that defined them. According to the Budoji, Koreans as the People of Mago, the Creatrix, flowered, protected, and bequeathed Magoism, the Way of the Creatrix, from time immemorial….
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[1] The book titles of the Budoji, the Handan Gogi (Old Records of Han and Dan), and the Jingsimnok, too frequently referred to in my work on Magoism, are not italicized.
[2] Magoism is a term coined by the author. Expressed as “the Way of Mago,” and the like, the concept of Magoism is fully manifest in the Budoji and a large volume of other sources including the Handan Gogi. For more on Magoism, see Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, The Mago Way: Re-discovering Mago, the Great Goddess from East Asia (Lytle Creek, CA: Mago Books, 2015), 85-87.
[3] Regarding romanization of Korean, I followed the style of Revised Romanization of Korean with some exceptions. In the case of proper nouns and personal names, some confusion arises as they are variably used by individuals today. For example, surnames of Gim and Bak would be written as Kim and Park. Also, I placed the surname before the first name, according to the Korean convention with some exceptions when they are already noted for otherwise.
[4] I have made an initial introductory discussion about the Budoji in my translation of the Budoji’s first four chapters concerning the Magoist Cosmogony. See Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, The Magoist Cosmogony (Chapters 1-4) Budoji Workbook (Volume 1): The Budoji (Epic of the Emblem Capital City) in English and Korean Translations with the Original Text in the East Asian Logographic Language (Lytle Creek, CA: Mago Books 2020), 1-6.
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S/HE: An International Journal of Goddess Studies Volume 1 Number 2 (2022)