Submitted by Berkana on Sun, 08/27/2006 - 12:50pm.
A message passed along by the Priestess of Sekhmet Temple, regarding a Korean shamanic ritual for the healing of Comfort Women - women who were taken as sex slaves by the Japanese in WWII.
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Dear ones in my beloved community,
Greetings and blessings!
from In Hui Lee.
I am calling for your prayers and candle lighting for a Korean shamanic ritual for healing the comfort women. I have asked a permission from Korean shamans for this.
If possible you can send your prayers and light a candle sometime during the ritual is being offered.
On August 27, 2006, from 10 am to 10 pm, in Korean time. In the Pacific Standard Time, this will be on August 26th, 2 am to 2 pm. Sometime during the day please offer your prayers and candle lighting for the comfort women.
On August 27th, in the city of Incheon , South Korea , (mostly) female shamans will be holding their annual ritual for healing the comfort women. This ritual is called Haewon Jinhonkut. Haewon means resolving grievances, deep sorrow, anguish; Jinhon means comforting, or appeasing the spirit of the dead, and kut (sometimes written in gut), means a shamanic ritual
Since 2003, Korean shamans have been holding this ritual for leading the restless spirits of the deceased comfort women to their final resting place, and for helping surviving comfort women heal from the traumatic scars of history--of the comfort women.
I am leaving on 24th, to attend the ritual. I will tell you about the ritual experience later.
Thank you for your compassionate hearts and healing and helping hands. Please spread the words as far, wide, and deep as you can.
If you have time and would like to find out more about comfort women and the shamanic ritual, please read on.
In healing solidarity
Inhui
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The term comfort women literally means women who comfort, in this case, comfort men. In Japanese, it is ianfu, and in Korean, yianbu, both means women who comfort, connoting prostitute. In the literature on the Comfort Women, it is written in capital and in lower cases. However, there was simply no word for the systematic rape of women on the magnitude conducted by the Japanese government during World War II.
In 1992, at the First Asian Solidarity Conference for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan, in Seoul, delegates defined Comfort Women as Military Sexual Slavery by Japan during World War II.
The term, Comfort Women, is first, a sexual slavery system that was officially installed and regulated for providing sexual comfort, in addition to cooking, cleaning and doing laundry, to the Japanese Armed Forces in war zones during the Second World War. The military built facilities to serve this purpose called comfort stations. Researchers seem to agree that comfort stations had been established long before World War II, as early as in 1932, in Shanghai, when Japan invaded Manchuria.
Second, it means the women from many occupied territories of Japan, including some Dutch women in Indonesia who were forced to serve the Japanese military men. Women and girls, sometimes as young as ten years old, were deceived, or drafted for the slavery. It is estimated that 100,000 to 200,000 women were in the system, and most of them, 80%, were believed to have come from Korea, a colony of Japan in 1910-1945. These women were taken by the Japanese troops to the front line of battlefields as the Japanese military advanced to occupy many countries in Asia and in the South Pacific. It is estimated that only 25% of comfort women have survived the ordeal.
Feminist activists in The Korean Council for Women Drafted for Sexual Slavery by Japan During World War II, continue to collect historical documents and photos of the Comfort Women to build the Memorial for the Comfort Women and the War and Women’s Human Rights Museum. For now, there is a cyber Memorial, at http://www.womenandwar.net/english/index.php.
At present, in South Korea 211 survivors are known to exist. They are passing away fast because they are in their old age, and the ordeal took its toll on them.
On July 13, 1990, some shamans were invited by civic and women’s groups to perform a ritual for the comfort women in Seoul. At the ritual, these shamans were possessed by spirits of dead comfort women who shared their suffering and anguish, and pleaded with them to ease their suffering. The spirits of the dead comfort women spoke to shamans:
I am hungry, unnie (my sister).
I am cold, so cold, freezing here. I want to sleep in a warm and nice place.
I don’t know where I am. . . . I want to go back my home
I miss my mom and my friends terribly.
I am in pain. I am dying.
Give me some nice clothes.
The heart-wrenching plight of the deceased comfort women prompted shamans to organize an annual ritual that is dedicated exclusively to these women. It took ten years of research and organizing by shamans themselves to finally create a ritual that served the purpose. This ritual is called Haewon Jinhonkut, which is a combination of a traditional shamanic ritual for the dead from Hwanghae-do in North Korea and a variation of contemporary interpretation of it for the cause of the comfort women. The shamans titled this particular ritual Haewon Jinhongut. Haewon means resolving grievance, or grudges, and Jinhon means comforting, or appeasing the spirit. Kut (gut) means a ritual. In order to dedicate this ritual to the comfort women exclusively, some shamans formed the Association for Preservation of Hwanghae-do-kut.
Because it is impossible to hold a Jinhongut for an individual comfort woman, the shamans hold a ritual for groups of women from each province. Before the division of Korea, there were eight provinces; afterwards, there are fourteen--eight in South Korea and six in North Korea. Because in the time of the comfort women, there were eight provinces, the shamans plan to hold eight rituals. In 2003, the ritual was held in Seoul; in 2004, in Kyungsangdo; in 2005, Jeollado. This year, 2006, the ritual, which is delayed due to lack of funding, will be held in August, in Incheon, that is located in Kyunggido.
How about the comfort women from provinces in North Korea? When I asked Sang Soon Kim, a boardmember of the Association, she said that since Koreans are forbidden to visit the other Korea, the shamans might have to hold a ritual in a place that is the nearest to North Korea.
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