The Sunrise Valley
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Dates2018 - 2018
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- Topics Daily Life, Editorial, Documentary
- Location Planaltina, Brazil
Located few kilometers from the Brazilian capital city, The Sunrise Valley is the biggest exoteric community in Latin America. From a small ranch built 50 years ago, the place became a city considered the capital of the New Age.
During the new brazilian capital’s construction, the esoteric leader Neiva Zelaia moved to Brasilia and bought a small ranch in a valley to start a small esoteric community which according to her spiritual guides would light the humanity to a new era.
Based on this believe, Zelaia built a big religious complex mixing all those ancient civilizations’ aesthetics and symbols. From an Egyptian pyramid’s close to Hebrew 6 pointed start lake, or a huge Jesus Christ image in front to an Incan temple, a village grew around these esoteric structures and that mystical imaginary became part of its residents’ daily life.
Decades later, The Sunrise Valley turned into a 25.000 residents’ district where men driving mo-torcycles in Celtics wizard costumes or women holding Greek amazon’s spears while shopping are easily found in the streets, but also became a big spiritualistic doctrine with over 800.000 followers and 700 temples in Brazil, Europe and North-America.