Breaking News! She’s Italian! This famous 30,000 year old Goddess sculpture originated in the Italian Alps

by Theresa | Jan 21, 2023 | Goddess, Recent Posts

The recent issue of Archaeology reports that this 30,000 year old Goddess sculpture found in 1908 on the banks of the Danube in what is now Willendorf, Austria and known by the name Venus of Willendorf, originated in the Italian Alps. Doing a high tech scan, a team at...

Deverra: The Italian Sweeper Fairy—Polydaimonism in Ancient Italy

by Theresa | Jan 12, 2023 | About Divination, Recent Posts, Strega and Italian-Americana

“You need a sweep!” Was one of the common pronouncements on my way to becoming a  stick diviner. This meant one needed to have “dirt,” both psychic and physical, cleaned off of them. There were all kinds of “brooms,” one made of fern, one made of feathers, one made of...

An Invitation from the Darkness for this Weekend of the New Year

by Theresa | Dec 29, 2022 | Goddess, Interviews Given, Meditations and Inspirations, More on My Books, Recent Posts

The WINTER SOLSTICE AND JOURNALING RITUAL created by myself and Yael Wolfe is a perfect tool for getting in touch with your deep soul desires this coming weekend from which to better set your sails of intention for 2023. Yael and I created this as a solstice ritual...

December 21: Winter Solstice—Manifesting with the Goddess Diana and the Mirror of the Moon—Theresa C. Dintino’s Abruzzo-Americana Wheel of the Year

by Theresa | Dec 18, 2022 | Goddess, More on My Books, Recent Posts, Strega and Italian-Americana

Winter solstice is a time for birthing. It is the birth of light, the birth of the sun. What do we want to birth? What do we want to pull forward from the other dimensional realms into this one? What is this? Read about why I am creating an Abruzzo-Italiana Wheel of...

The Goddess Diana, Lake Nemi and the Mirror of the Moon South of Rome

by Theresa | Dec 16, 2022 | Goddess, More on My Books, Recent Posts, Strega and Italian-Americana

Italian Goddess Diana is often associated with Greek Artemis. The two are categorized as hunters and Amazons, implicating them as descendants of an ancient moon lineage. Diana, however, was interacted with long before the Romans and way before her eventual association...

Icamiabas: Amazon Warrior Women in Precontact Americas

by Theresa | Dec 8, 2022 | Goddess, More on My Books, Recent Posts, Strega and Italian-Americana

While researching the truth and myth around ancient warrior women called Amazons  for my book The Amazon Pattern, I stumbled into unexpected territory —Amazon warrior women—Icamiabas—in South America. It soon became clear that I was sitting atop a huge mountain of...