At the crucial time the Maya used to throw their old gods into the water:

"And the statues, hewn in either wood or stone, kept in each man's home and regarded as gods, were all cast into the water."

Water extinguishes fire. Another way to subdue 'fire' is music:

"Lyra, the Lyre or Harp, is the Leier in Germany, Lira of Italy, and Lyre of France, and anciently represented the fabled instrument invented by Hermes and given to his half-brother Apollo, who in turn transferred it to his son Orpheus, the musician of the Argonauts, of whom Shakespeare wrote:

Everything that heard him play, / Even the billows of the sea, / Hung their heads, and then lay by."

(Allen)

This affirms my thoughts about GD54 and I ought to write about its meaning, fairly clear as it is. The time for music is at the time of festivities, like at new year. But then people also will be off their guards and start smiling.

The Inuit used half-smiles when greeting the first Sun, but the real reason (to stay alive, I would say) seems to be forgotten.