225">We focus on the primitive basaltic magmas that bypassed Etna central conduits.
Magma heterogeneities are linked to the melting of heterogeneous Hyblean-type mantle.
None of the pre-1970s magmas are parent of present-day basalts.
The ongoing selective alkali-enrichment of Etna magmas is a mantle source process.
The decoupling of Rb–K and 87Sr–Cl reveals multistage events of mantle metasomatism.