 This suggests that chasms, like caves, represent potent cosmological and religious places where ancestral and supernatural spirits can be reached.The features and natural phenomena observed at the Main Chasm at Aguateca provide a window into the complex manipulation of the transformative properties of the elements and their significance.At Aguateca, within the interiors of the earth where the wind blows clouds onto the hill from the depths of the chasm, wind instruments were played and fires were burned.