The space was not sealed after a single use and forgotten — it was returned to, opened, and used again, likely across the spans of individual human lifetimes and across the generational transitions of the city’s political and religious leadership.

This long-term, sustained pattern of use is consistent with the understanding of subterranean spaces — cenotes, caves, chultúns — as permanently significant places in Maya religious geography.

The underground was not a temporary destination but a persistent domain, a place that maintained its sacred character across time and whose use could be renewed and repeated as long as the community that recognized it survived.

The centuries-long use also means that the 11 close-relative pairings found in the genetic data were not all necessarily from the same time or the same family group or the same ritual event.