Kubaba's Pomegranate

With her first-hand account Luisa Francia encourages other women to take responsibility for their own health and healing.

To celebrate the gift of life is Luisa Francia’s initial reaction when she is diagnosed with an abdominal tumour. Her journey back to health turns into a shamanic initiation rite, during which she connects with the Goddess Kubaba and the forces of female spirituality. She learns to accept her mortality, and, flying in the face of reason, sets out for Anatolia, Kubaba’s homeland. Luisa Francia is not opposed to orthodox medicine, but it is important for her to encourage women to go their own way – regardless of what others say. Includes an appendix which sets out a healing ritual.


Luisa Francia is an author, an artist, an expert on sorcery, a traveler; she has an adult daughter, speaks five languages and has published more than 30 books, some of which became bestsellers. She keeps a web-log www.salamandra.de. Her favorite concern is the re-enchantment of the world.