Case file · Sacred site
Vale do Amanhecer
In 1969 the medium Neiva Chaves Zelaya, known as Tia Neiva, moved her spiritual community to Planaltina near Brasília. The Vale do Amanhecer mixes Spiritism, Afro-Brazilian, Catholic, Egyptian and extraterrestrial imagery.
1969 CE · -15.66, -47.69 · status: account
The account
Tia Neiva, a former truck driver, began having visions in 1957 and founded her first community in 1959 near Alexânia. Followers believe in spirit healing and in ancient visitors from other worlds called Equitumans and Tumuchys. The temple at Planaltina draws thousands of visitors and the movement now has hundreds of branch temples.