See what drove Magdalena Solis to believe she was a goddess and start sacrificing her followers.
See what drove Magdalena Solis to believe she was a goddess and start sacrificing her followers. Magdalena Solis was born in the Mexican state of Veracruz in 1945. She grew up in a poor family and had limited opportunities for education and advancement. In the late 1960s, she moved to the town of San Francisco del Rincón in the state of Guanajuato, where she became involved in a local cult called "The Palomar." The Palomar was led by a man named Santos, who claimed to have supernatural powers and the ability to communicate with the gods. Santos convinced his followers that he was a divine being and that they needed to make sacrifices in order to appease the gods and bring about a new era of prosperity and abundance. Santos eventually died, and Solis and her brother Eleazar took over the cult. They renamed it "The Order of the Solar Temple" and began to demand even more extreme sacrifices from their followers. They convinced their followers that Sol