🜁 Forgotten Origins
Before Rome, the peninsula was a crossroads of Etruscans, Illyrians, Celts, Samnites and more, each carrying their own rites. When the witch-hunts came, the Old Ways were forced underground; goddesses borrowed Catholic names and healers became “folk magicians.” What looked extinct was merely disguised.
🜃 The Lineage Lives
Out of that hidden current flows one unbroken, matrilineal line:
Michela Chiarelli
7th-generation Priestess. Last hereditary Shaman of her house.
Born with second sight and initiated first by the four Elements themselves.
Trained by Nonna Malva—the village healer who prayed to Isis behind a Marian veil.
Further schooled by scattered Priestesses from Calabria to Greece, each guarding a fragment of the Mediterranean Mother cult.
Michela carries formulas, songs and bone-healing rites untouched by academic guesswork or outsider reconstruction. In her family the title only ever passed to women; she has two sons, so the line ends with her—unless her books keep it breathing.
“In my family, only the women carried it—and I’m the last.”
🜄 Why It Matters Now
The West is rediscovering the Goddess, but often through pop iconography and imported traditions.
Italian Shamanism offers:
A European indigenous practice - rooted in the same soil that shaped Western civilisation.
A living female lineage that survived in silence, proving the Goddess never left.
A medicine for cultural amnesia.
🜂 Much of today’s Goddess culture celebrates empowerment and archetypes, but often overlooks the grounded, devotional roots these traditions once held. The Goddess was not just a symbol — she was a lived presence, honoured through daily rituals, offerings, and ancestral memory. At IN HER GENIUS, we return to these origins: embodied, earth-based, and quietly powerful. Through Michela Chiarelli’s lineage, we offer not just stories, but transmissions from a living tradition.
