in atl in tlachinolli (TR21v)

This painted example of iconography features the visual diphrasis, "water and fire," or "flood and conflagration (or scorched earth)" (in atl in tlachinolli). It is included here for the purpose of making comparisons with hieroglyphs and diving deeper into the intended meanings of the details. The water element is a light blue with lines of current (suggestive of movement) and splashes that have droplets or beads and turbinate shells at the tips of these short deviations. This example, somewhat unusually, has two droplets in the middle of the main stream. Also, the shells and droplets or beads do not alternate evenly, as there are two shells together at the bottom of the stream. As is typical of this diphrasis, the water and the fire are somewhat intertwined as they descend. The fire in this example has quite a bit of brown along with the gold and red. The light blue flame tips, however, are not as unusual. The flame takes on the shape something like a hand but with a total of nine fingers. At the base of these finger-flames are some stripes that run the opposite direction, perhaps something like the base of a torch. Above that, in the current-like stripes of colors, we see two segments, on purple and one brown or orange, both with dotted lines. Might these be cultivated fields of the type that would be put at risk by flood and conflagration?