Vale do Amanhecer in Brasília

Record summary

Vale do Amanhecer is the Brazilian esoteric religious movement founded by Neiva Chaves Zelaya, known as Tia Neiva, and established at Planaltina near Brasília. During the 1970s and 1980s it developed distinctive uniforms, ritual architecture, mediumship, reincarnation narratives, extraterrestrial imagery, and a syncretic cosmology. It matters for comparison as a documented modern movement rather than a single paranormal event. Researchers should verify early institutional records, practitioner testimony, photographs, and contemporaneous studies because later devotional accounts may standardize or mythologize the movement’s origins.