Within decades, the Inquisition arrived in Brazil, and many of the pioneers escaped inland to the plateau region. There could be no doubt that the descendants of the Valley of the Dawn included many Marranos. She then proclaimed that the skyport of the aliens was directly above the Valley of the Dawn, and hundreds of local residents erected a temple there. Today, the sect numbers some 5,000 people who devote their lives to praying to the space entities. They beseech the sky people to return to the Earth.
Many visitors claim to feel powerful, unexplained energies at the pool.
Contact I approached our guide and asked him to call the priest over to me. As we began our conversation, the UFOlogists gathered to listen. The priest did not. I told him Marranos were Jews who were forced to convert to Christianity in the sixteenth century. I took a chance that my own research was relevant to the situation.