The subjective experience of the people involved — their beliefs, their understanding of what was happening, their emotional responses — is not accessible through any archaeological method.

We can reconstruct the material dimensions of the past with increasing precision.

We cannot recover the interior lives of the people who lived it.

It cannot definitively connect the specific ritual practices at this chultún to the specific narratives of the Popol Vuh or any other surviving text.

The connection between the material evidence and the mythological framework is interpretive, made by researchers working across different domains of expertise, and it carries the uncertainties that all cross-domain interpretation carries.

It cannot establish that the selection of twins, or related children, for this specific ritual context was a conscious and deliberate policy that persisted across the centuries of the chultún’s use, as opposed to patterns that might have complex and varied explanations across different episodes of use.