V3N2 (Fall 2024)

Table of Contents

EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION

POETRY

“To My Cousin” by Helen Benigni

“The Doors of Precession” by Helen Benigni

“The Original Trinity” by Helen Hye-Sook Hwang

“The Magoist Calendar of the 13 Months and 28 Days” by Helen Hye-Sook Hwang

ESSAYS

“Goddess Veneration and Cave Rituals: Unveiling the Spiritual Landscapes of Matricultural Crete” by Freia Serafina 

“Red Tents and the Embodying of Women’s Stories” by Alisha Pomazon

“Goddesses in Translation: The Apocalyptic Persephone” by Mary Ann Beavis

BOOK REVIEWS

“Philip C. Almond, Mary Magdalene: A Cultural History” reviewed by Mary Ann Beavis

“Dvora Lederman-Daniely, Sarai: Is She the Goddess of Ancient Israel?” reviewed by Mary Ann Beavis

“Joanna Kujawa, The Other Goddess: Mary Magdalene and the Goddesses of Eros and Secret Knowledge” reviewed by Susanna de Chenonceau 

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V3N1 (Spring 2024)

Table of Contents

EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION

ESSAYS

“Slip, Slip, Pray: The Spiritual and Societal Benefits of Knitting and Crochet” by Francesca Tronetti

“Art as Text: The Adoration of the Magi, Collyridian Bread Offerings, and Theotokos” by Alley Kateusz

“South Slavic Archeology of Mythic Memory Narratives” by Danica Anderson

INVITED ESSAY

“Mago Halmi (Great Mother) Shapes Topographies with Her Skirt: An Introductory Discussion on Magoist Cetacean Folklore and Toponymy” by Helen Hye-Sook Hwang 

BOOK REVIEWS

“Mann, Barbara A. and Kaarina Kailo, The Woman Who Married the Bear” reviewed by Vivien Gibbons

“Helen Hye-Sook Hwang and Helen Benigni (Eds), Celebrating Intercosmic Kinship of the Goddess” reviewed by Kaarina Kailo

“Max Dashu, Women in Greek Mythography: Pythias, Melissae, and Titanides” reviewed by Lisa R. Skura

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V2N2 (Fall 2023)

Table of Contents

EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION (Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, Ph.D., Helen Benigni, Ph.D. and Mary Ann Beavis, Ph.D.)

ART AND POETRY

“Mother-roots” by Mary Saracino

“Meet Me in the Forest” by Mary Saracino

“Comfort Zone” by Alshaad Kara

“Representtions of the Goddess in her many manifesttions” by Andrea Redmond

“The Circle of Samsara” by Veronica Leandrez

“Persephone” by Veronica Leandrez

“Yemaya” by Veronica Leandrez

ESSAYS

“From Lilith to Mary Magdalene: The Divine Feminine in the Art of Lilian Broca” by Mary Ann Beavis

“Flesh of the Goddess: A Compassionate and Critical Examination of Western Consumptive Practices from Ice Cream to Ayahuasca” by Alison Newvine

“Thesmophoria: Women’s Mysteries of Fertility and the Foundation of Greek Civilization” by Mara Lynn Keller

INVITED ESSAY

“The Homeric Hymn to Demeter” by Susan Hawthorne

BOOK REVIEWS

“Rachel S. McCoppin, Goddess Lost: How the Downfall of Female Deities Degraded Women’s Status in World Cultures” (McFarland & Company, 2023), reviewed by Pegi Eyers                               

“Margaret Barker, The Great Lady: Restoring Her Story” (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2023), reviewed by Ally Kateusz

“Glenys Livingstone, A Poiesis of the Creative Cosmos: Celebrating Her within PaGaian Sacred Ceremony” (Columbia, SC: Girl God Books, 2023), reviewed by Francesca Tronetti

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V2N1 (Spring 2023)

Table of Contents

EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION by Mary Ann Beavis, Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, Francesca Tronetti

ART AND POETRY

“Metamorphose” by Anna Tzanova 

“Shackled” by Lillian Broca 

“purple horizon” by Susan Hawthorne 

ESSAYS

“The Spiral and The Goddess as a Symbol of Life and Regeneration” by Louis Lagana 

“The Goddess of the Eclipses” by Helen Benigni

“Women in the Eyes of Mahavira – Sinner or Redeemer?” by Deepak Shimkhada and LaChelle Schilling 

INVITED ESSAY

“The Ancient Korean Whale-Dragon Bell: An Encodement of Magoist Cetacean Soteriology” by Helen Hye-Sook Hwang

BOOK REVIEWS

“Max Dashu, Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1100,” reviewed by Carolyn Lee Boyd                                                                        

“Małgorzata Oleszkiewicz-Peralba, Mythology and Symbolism of Eurasia and Indigenous Americas: Manifestations in Artifacts and Rituals,” reviewed by Lisa R. Skura

“Susan Ackerman, Gods, Goddesses, and the Women who Serve Them,” reviewed by Mary Ann Beavis

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V1N2 (Fall 2022)

Table of Contents

“Editors’ Introduction” by Krista Rodin, Kaalii Cargill, Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, and Mary Ann Beavis

“Unveiling an Ancient Silla Korean Testimony to the Mother World: An Introductory Discussion of the Budoji (Epic of the Emblem Capital City), the Principal Text of Magoism” by Helen Hye-Sook Hwang

“Birthing Love through a Thealogy of Birth with Carol P. Christ” by Nané Jordan

“Space-Age Goddess: The Overview Effect as a Feminine Archetype, Evolving Myth and Participatory Transpersonal Practice” by Lila Moore

“Rebirthing Finnish Ancestral Mothers and Goddesses through Art and Research” by Kaarina Kailo

“Goddess Related Special Exhibitions at State-Supported European Museums in 2022” by Krista Rodin

BOOK REVIEWS

Kaarina Kailo. Finnish Goddess Mythology, the Golden Woman and Traditional Ecological Knowledge from Climate Change to Indigenous Earth Democracy and the Gift (Oulu, Juvenes Print, Lore & Loom/Myyttikehrä, 2021, c. 2018), reviewed by Krista Rodin.

Mary Ann Beavis and Ally Kateusz, eds. Rediscovering the Marys: Maria, Mariamne, Miriam (London/New York/Oxford/New Delhi/Sydney: T&T Clark, 2020), reviewed by Bojana Radovanović

Mary Ann Beavis and Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, eds. Goddesses in Myth, History and Culture (Lytle Creek, CA: Mago Books, 2018), reviewed by Jenny Cameron

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V1N1 (Spring 2022)

Table of Contents

“Editor’s Introduction” by Krista Rodin and Mary Ann Beavis

“The Sacred Music of the Sistrum and Frame Drum: Percussion Instruments in the Worship of Goddesses from Ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome” by Francesca Tronetti

“A Scottish Goddess: An Introduction to the Evidence” by Stuart McHardy

“Holy Spirit Mother and Intersex Jesus: Turning Point Nicene Creed” by Ally Kateusz

Kali Ma & Kundalini: Serpent Goddess Rising” by Tanya Lynne Brittain

“Goddesses in Every Girl? Goddess Feminism and Children’s Literature” by Mary Ann Beavis

INVITED ESSAY

“Reinstating Matriversal Motherhood: A Study of Dandong Siphun (Ten Instructions for Dan Children), the Magoist Pretoddler Childrearing Custom of Traditional Korea” by Helen Hye-Sook Hwang

BOOK REVIEWS

Raven Grimassi, What We Knew in the Night: Reawakening the Heart of Witchcraft (Newburyport, MA: Weiser Books, 2019), reviewed by Francesca Tronetti

Nané Jordan and Chandra Alexandre eds., Pagan, Goddess, Mother (Bradford, ON: Demeter Press, 2021), reviewed by Barbara Bickel

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