RITUAIS DO VALE DO AMANHECER: SINCRETISMO E PLURALIDADE DE SÍMBOLOS

Abstract

The studies, based on surveys made about the syncretism and the pluralities of symbols in rituals at the Vale do Amanhecer, show that many of the pioneers religious communities were formed from processes of incorporations, fuses, adaptations and compositions, that is, from syncretism that seems to be assented in the pluralism of symbols, which would make possible, for an individual, a continuing exploration of the sense. In that sense, it can be identified in the central planate of Brazil – Brasilia and Surrounds -, many of the characteristics of what would be the religiosities in the contemporaneity. One of them is the growing of the search for the mystic-esoteric. We can see, more and more, a series of religious manifestations, around the institutionalized religions. The posture has a sincretic character, which includes, collage, composition and combination of elements of various western and eastern religions, hermetic tradition, science, planetary conscience, world peace, ecology, and a great circulation among the groups and rituals. The Vale do Amanhecer, is directly associated to ritualistic practices sincretized of composite form with the spiritism, Catholicism, Afro-Brazilians traditions and Amerindians religions. The symbolic elements of these religious traditions were imported from their original contexts and there received new meanings. The analyses of these rituals permits apply acritically the hypothesis of the syncretism of composition present in religious rituals in that community.