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Reinstating Matriversal Motherhood: A Study of Dandong Siphun (Ten Instructions for Dan Children), the Magoist Pretoddler Childrearing Custom of Traditional Korea
Helen Hye-Sook Hwang
Abstract: This essay introduces the Magoist infant-rearing custom of traditional Korea known as Dandong Siphun (檀童十訓 단동십훈 Ten Instructions for Dan Children). Relevant lore, language, mytho-history, and thought of traditional Magoist Korea are discussed. The Dandang Siphun (hereafter DDSH) custom of Magoist Korea reenacts the reality of matriversal motherhood through mother-infant interplays conducted during the pretoddler period, creating a postnatal foundation for an infant to grow into a healthy, intelligent, and happy matricentric person. DDSH mothers implement a series of progressive interplays stage by stage in a timely manner. The mother guides her infant to mimic her crafted actions and vocalizations, which are to induce an optimized developmental (physical, cerebral, linguistic, emotional, and spiritual) growth in the latter. During this period of childhood dependency, Magoist mothers lay the foundation of a matricentric personhood in her child.
Keywords: matriverse, motherhood, pretoddler, childcare, Mago, Magoism, Creatrix, Great Mother, Goma, the Tree of Life, Korea, East Asia, folksong, whales, cetaceanism, Goddess, patriarchy
This essay undertakes the task of introducing, exploring, and discussing the Magoist infant-rearing custom of traditional Korea known as Dandong Siphun (檀童十訓 단동십훈 Ten Instructions …
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