The Mixtec Storyboard
Line 4

The fourth line starts with a native being taught by a bearded man. Is he telling the story about the fires in the heavens and the fires on the earth as depicted by the next figure? An "offering" of fire is being presented to the star platform and to the double headed earth monster which did not make any sense whatsoever. The stone man (Mixtec?) with a split head is admiring a strange new plant. The plant is clearly corn. Next, the gentleman who held the fire to the sky and land is presenting a knotted cord to the double headed earth monster. In the Maya group, it was found that a knotted cord was a number counter. Is the man presenting a cord of a newly counted year; calculated anew after the conflagration of the blazing star in the heavens?