Vale do Amanhecer founding tradition

Record summary

Vale do Amanhecer emerged around the mediumistic leader Neiva Chaves Zelaya, known as Tia Neiva, in late-1950s and 1960s Brazil. Its ritual system combines Spiritist, Catholic, Indigenous, Afro-Brazilian, Egyptian, and science-fictional imagery, including named spiritual guides and “incarnations” understood to mediate cosmic and human history. It matters for comparison because it institutionalized intermediary beings in dress, architecture, ritual, and oral genealogy. Dates and early organizational stages should be verified through movement archives and scholarship; later descriptions may project the mature system backward.