This is the one overtly devotional piece in the set, and it stays true to Gond's own pantheon rather than borrowing one: Thakur Dev, the guardian spirit of the Gond village and its fields. The brief was a frontal, symmetrical icon with the dignity of a shrine figure but the grammar of the forest — so the deity wears buffalo-style horns and a petal-crown, holds a sun-disc in one hand and a flowering, fruiting branch in the other, signs of light and abundance. Two deer mirror at the feet and two birds at the corners hold the symmetry, because in Gond cosmology the protector is never separate from the creatures he watches over. The body is filled with fine dash-rows, the deer with dot-stripes, the crown with dot-rows. Keeping it medium-light lets the figure read as calm authority on the breathing green ground, not a crowded altar.