I think the distinction between “appreciate” and “worship” is important. That is why I said appreciate, rather than worship.
So too the distinction between “cuadrangle” and “temple”, because there are temples in that place and cuadrangles. This was clearly named a cuadrangle, not a temple.
Maya is still spoken here. It is one of two official languages of this state, and for many, the first language spoken. I take my cues about what Maya ancestors believed and felt from those for whom maya is their lengua materna: my friends and neighbors, my older son’s promised and her family, and Maya scholars at UADY and INAH. I work really hard not to presume or interpret it through my own lens, which I believe is cloudy for time, for culture, for my own experiences in other places.