The researchers who published the 2024 study noted the relevance of the Hero Twin tradition to their findings — the maleness of the children, the presence of identical twins, the subterranean location.

These connections are meaningful as cultural context, as a framework through which the archaeological evidence might be understood.

What they are not is proof of motive.

The specific ritual purpose of this specific chultún was not directly recorded in any surviving text.

The connection between the Hero Twin mythology and the children interred in the chultún is interpretive, not established as fact by the genetic data.

This distinction — between context and proof, between mythology as cultural background and mythology as demonstrated motive — is important to maintain.