After this ritual had been finished, the ritual of The Holy Mountain began. The plot of the film is even more complex than El Topo. The film begins with the main character, The Thief, crucified and covered with flies, being ridiculed by a group of Mexican children. He is helped by a legless, armless dwarf who shares a joint with The Thief, and the two wander into a decadent Mexican city. A truck drives by filled with butchered, bloody corpses.
Soldiers rape women on the street.
There is a massive procession of soldiers marching, carrying crosses with crucified lambs on them, each with their heart hanging out. Citizens are lined up and executed en masse, with blue blood flowing from them and birds flying from their wounds. As the reptiles tear each other apart, blood covers everything and the entire set is blown up, with reptile blood and guts flying. Soldiers get The Thief extremely drunk, and he is placed on a cross and covered with plaster, and hundreds of plaster Christs are made from his mold. He awakens in a hall of mirrors, surrounded by the Christs, screaming, and begins to smash the Christs.