The brief was to make the divination itself the subject: not the finished wall, but the moment the badva reads the offering and tells the household what it owes the gods. Central-deity symmetry put the seated diviner dead-centre with the spread of grain and pots before him and devotees kneeling in mirrored pairs, so the eye lands first on the rite and the rising incense smoke. Among the Rathwa the badva is the ritual specialist whose chant guides the Lakhara's hand — the painting answers a vow the badva has named — so giving him the centre is true to how a Pithora actually begins. The lower band keeps modern village life small and ordinary — a bus, a tractor, children at cricket — so the sacred reading stays the loudest thing on the wall.