Under the earth are our dead and our wealth. Planes, cars, refrigerators, buildings and much of our material surroundings comes from Carajas, the largest iron ore mine in the world, located in the heart of Brazil's rainforest. Today, it generates billions of dollars in profits for corporations but once it was the site of the most important guerrilla movement in Brazil. In 1982, 10 years after the fighting ceased, the Great Carajás Project was launched by the Brazilian government, with assistance from the US. This undertaking built a legacy of historical erasure as human rights violations were buried along the 900.000 km² of the region. Pasteurized history is a problem across all Latin America, but especially in Brazil. This project proposes to examine the voids that were created both in the earth, from mining, and in the people who live in Carajas, who carry in their memory the complex history of this region. This is an alternative story than the one that lives on in streets and public squares, sometimes even in the local museums. I investigate how myths and syncretisms are instruments of subversion to the status quo, looking at the intersection of culture, dependence and exploitation. I aim to create a narrative that portrays these people as protagonists of their own history, reaffirming their centrality in our complex relationship with our environment and our history.