Yucatan is a flat limestone shelf with no surface rivers, and its religion is shaped by that geology. Rainwater drains straight through the rock into an underground water table, reachable where the roof of a cavern has collapsed into a natural well, and those wells, cenotes, were treated as openings into the underworld and as the domain of the rain deity. Objects and human remains have been dredged from several, most famously from the large cenote at Chichen Itza.
Maya religion here is documented better than most of the pre-Columbian Americas because it was written down twice, in two scripts. The first is the Maya script itself, a full writing system combining logograms and syllabic signs, carved on monuments and painted in folding bark-paper books. Only four of those books survive, and they are almanacs and astronomical tables rather than narratives: the Dresden codex contains a Venus table of considerable accuracy and eclipse tables.
The second is alphabetic. After the conquest, Maya scribes wrote their own language in the Latin alphabet, producing the books of Chilam Balam, town by town, which mix prophecy, history, ritual and medicine and preserve material from before contact alongside material from after it.
The Long Count calendar, which places every day in a continuous tally from a fixed origin, is the reason Maya inscriptions can be dated to the day, and it made the region's chronology the firmest in the Americas.