The Mixtec Storyboard
Line 5

The fifth line shows the death of a fire person (volcano again dormant) on top of a new feather-mantled earth (covered with alluvial soil) controlled by a new present-day Tlaloc figure, probably mountain-born rain storms. A second larger Tlaloc figure is separated from the smaller by a round stone from which flows golden waters. One can assume that the present day Tlaloc, as an violent rainstorm in mountains over 4,000 feet high, could kill a small volcanic fire. The round broken stone with its golden waters might have been caused by the ancient version of Tlaloc, the great god of fire-rain and lava who controlled the volcanic mountains and allowed the land to be split asunder to create the golden fountain (Chapultepec ?).

This powerful Tlaloc is illustrated in the southwestern square of the Olin glyph found on the giant Aztec Calendar Stone. Another story teller continues the narration by relating the story of the rain of meteorites by the ancient Tlaloc (third epoch) and the journey out of the maw of the earth (caves?) where was created the first tree (generation) of survivors. The feminine Tlaloc is of the gentle life-giving rains of the fourth epoch. She is opposite the destructive male and she appears in the next row of narrative (line 6).