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The fire serpent is a symbolic element of the Mixtec and Nahua culture. It has various symbolisms in the codices. The fiery serpents carried the sun on its journey across the sky, thus providing light to the world every day. This figure also symbolized a comet crossing the skies a supernatural form of fiery meteor or comet that flies through the sky, and in many cases it has a flaming tail.
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Cocoa symbolized life and fertility. In maya mythology cocoa was associated with the underworld and regeneration. Mayas thought that the souls of the dead could be transformed and be reborn with this species. This explains its presence in funeral rites. The maya also used cocoa seeds as currency. For example, a turkey would be worth around a hundred cocoa seeds.
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Mythology aduces that the gods decided to hurl a rabbit at the moon in order to be able to differentiate it from the sun and so the moon would not compete with its luminosity and thus make it more opaque; the rodent was stamped staining the moon
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In this tablet we can see Pakal participating in a ceremony in which he is receiving the royal war headdress which is being handed to him by his mother Ix Sak K'uk'.