DESIGN BRIEF: the brief was to build a true ancestor ikon — a shrine, not décor — around Kitung, the Saura creator-deity, and to give him the calm authority the centre demands. We chose the ritual-ikon-frame symmetry so an arched niche pins the larger Kitung figure on the vertical axis with his trident, and let the dancers, drummers, horses and elephant orbit him in unhurried registers. The fill stays medium-light on purpose, with an open fish-net frame rather than the packed mesh that imitations cram in, so the deep-maroon ground breathes and the rounded faceless figures stay legible. We refused faces, refused colour, refused perspective depth; a tree of life rises straight under the niche the way real Lanjia Saura inner walls grow life from the shrine, and sun, moon, deer and cow close the panel the way they do in the Rayagada hills.