Los guardianes de hikuri peyote

The back is inscribed and signed: "Los guardianes de hikuri peyote hecho por Santos M. de la Torre de Santiago y familia" (The guardians of hikuri, the peyote, made by Santos M. de la Torre de Santiago and family).

The piece shows two deer and a peyote. When the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana acquired Santos's mural La luz del mundo. Dos divinidades in 2024, James Ramey, a researcher in the Humanities Department of its Cuajimalpa unit, said that the deer in it is seen as "un mediador entre los mundos y un guía a lo largo de los caminos místicos del peyote" (a mediator between the worlds and a guide along the mystical paths of peyote).

Juan Negrín, founding director of the Wixárika Research Center, writes that pilgrims who reach Wirikuta hunt "el venado sagrado que ofrece su corazón en forma de peyote al que sigue su rastro visionario" (the sacred deer that offers its heart, in the form of peyote, to whoever follows its track in visions).

In Negrín's explanation of the painter Juan Ríos Martínez's 1973 yarn painting Kieraka guarda la entrada a Wirikuta, based on a recording with the artist, the guardian of the sacred land is a giant lizard called imukui or kieraka, "semejante a un monstruo de Gila y conocido como escorpión (Heloderma horridum)" (like a Gila monster, and known in Spanish as escorpión, the beaded lizard), which guards Wirikuta, where the peyotes are, "para que no pasen los que no han cumplido sus devociones" (so that those who have not kept their devotions do not pass).