The next day officer Luis Martinez humoured Sebastian by returning to the cave with him before he was supposed to drive the boy home. His claims were dismissed as that of a wild imagination. He fled to the closest police station and informed the cops that he had seen a group of murderous vampires preying on ecstasy and gluttonously drinking human blood.
Attracted by the noises and lights coming from the caves, a local boy, 14-year-old Sebastian Guerrero stumbled upon the cult in the midst of a blood ritual. Something happened in May 1963 that would turn out to be the beginning of the end for the cult. The extent of the practice is debated by modern scholars. Human sacrifice was a religious practice of the pre-Columbian Aztec civilization, as well as other Mesoamerican civilizations such as the Maya and the Zapotec. One power-hungry cultist, Jesus Rubio, tried to join the inner sanctum of the High Priests, but was rebuffed. By the end the bloodthirsty cult had perfected the art of dissecting the still-beating hearts of their victims before they bled out. Four more dissenters were butchered in this manner. All the while they smoked vast amounts of dope and consumed peyote. Their blood was then collected in a chalice, mixed with chicken blood (animals were also sacrificed) and drank by all present to give them supernatural powers, eternal youth and immortality. Her blood rituals involved the cultists beating, burning, cutting and maiming the sacrificed until they bled to death. After that, any dissenting cultist became a human sacrifice in Magdalena's honour. The cultists, too afraid to defy Magdalena, obliged her by lynching the condemned pair. She sentenced the two would-be deserters to death as punishment for their betrayal. When two cultists tried to leave the group, she summoned everyone else before her and the High Priests. Magdalena ruled the cult with an iron fist. She became known as the High Priestess of Blood. She soon took over control of the cult and took it in an even darker direction, involving drinking blood and sadomasochism. The only problem was that the trick worked too well! Magdalena took her role too seriously and began to believe her own deceptions, developing a severe theological psychosis. Eleazar became the third High Priest of the cult. She presented as the reincarnation of the Aztec goddess Coatlicue.
At the next cave ritual Magdalena appeared to the stunned cultists through a smoke screen. They joined them and returned with them to the cult.
It was here that Magdalena and Eleazar met the Hernandez brothers. They went to Monterrey to find prostitutes to join in on the scam and keep the ruse going. Eventually though, the followers began to tire of the promised treasure failing to materialise and began to voice dissent. Santos and Cayetano kept the Yerba Buena people as sex slaves and held narcotic-fuelled orgies in the caves. For a while the Hernandez cult prospered. The bumpkins worshipped them as High Priests of the powerful and exiled Inca gods, providing them with tribute in exchange for treasure supposedly hidden in the nearby mountain caves.
The Hernandez brothers had taken advantage of the local hicks' naiveté and established a cult. It was a marginalised community of 50 poor, illiterate inhabitants. Meanwhile, brothers Santos and Cayetano Hernandez, a pair of petty thugs, had struck up a scam in the nearby small town of Yerba Buena. Though she didn't know it yet, her life was about to take a wild and violent turn. Born in the 1930s to an impoverished dysfunctional family in Monterrey, Mexico, Solis became an underage prostitute to make ends meet. Magdalena Solis never stood much chance at leading a normal life.
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