Source of ‘Saint Death’ Cult Venerated by Mexican Drug Cartel Members Uncovered, Media Says

Last year, an altar made by a Mexican gang and dedicated to La Santa Muerte, featuring “satanic masks” and containing “human remains along with skulls covered with blood”, was reportedly found during a police raid in the municipality of Cuauhtemoc, Mexico City.

The origins of a macabre death-worshipping religious cult may lie in a small Mexican town where locals stopped venerating Jesus, the Daily Star reports.

The object of the cult adherents’ devotions is known as La Santa Muerte, or Saint Death, usually depicted as a “skeletal grim reaper”, and “has roots in Aztec and Mayan death gods”, as the newspaper puts it.

As Almonte explained, when he visited a Santa Muerte “cathedral” in the city of Pachuca back in 2007, which he described as “a beat-up old warehouse building with a lot of really dark stuff in there – statues of Santa Muerte, witches, and The Devil”, he spoke with the caretaker of the place and was directed to Tepapetec.

Almonte also said that he managed to visit that shrine and that the locals told him “the same story”.

Members of the fearsome Los Zetas drug cartel have also “come to embrace the cult”, the newspaper adds.

Sourse: sputniknews.com