USE THIS IMAGE AS BASE. Retain exactly: the cotton tree with portal ring embedded in trunk, liquid gold rippling event horizon, SEVEN lit chevrons around the portal ring, SEVEN stone steps rising from red laterite earth to the portal threshold, deep indigo pre-dawn atmosphere, portal as dominant light source, crowd of 200 in dark silhouette with ceremony white at mid-ground, processional axis open, buttress roots of flanking trees in extreme foreground left and right, scattered oil torch amber pools at ground level, aerial hanging roots framing the portal on both sides, incense smoke low across the red earth. CHANGE ONE — AKUA: The figure at the far right margin must be made almost invisible. Reduce her to a silhouette — no lit face, no prominent dark robes, no foreground presence. She stands at the absolute edge where lamplight ends and forest begins. Only the faintest edge of her face catches the last oil torch. She is the same height as the crowd figures. She is not in the foreground. She is at the crowd margin, barely there, facing the portal while everyone else faces the centre. She should be discoverable on second viewing, not immediately visible. CHANGE TWO — THE STOOL: Remove the dark throne figure at the step base. Replace with the Golden Stool on its carved hardwood plinth — a wooden seat covered in hammered gold sheet, small and bright, catching the portal light from above and throwing gold back upward. Four small clay braziers with white smoke columns flanking it. Eight Okomfo priests in pure white standing still beside it. The gold of the Stool must rhyme visually with the gold of the portal above — two golds in conversation across exactly SEVEN steps of vertical distance. CHANGE THREE — SEVEN STEP ADINKRA: There are exactly SEVEN stone steps rising from the red earth to the portal ring. Each of the SEVEN step risers must carry one large distinct Adinkra symbol carved in deep relief across the full width of that step. Seven steps, seven different symbols, one per step, ascending in order from ground level to portal threshold. The symbols are lit from below by the nearest torch. They are readable from the processional axis. The SEVEN steps correspond directly to the SEVEN chevrons on the portal ring above — steps are the key, the portal is the lock. This one-to-one correspondence must be visually legible: count the steps, count the chevrons, the number is the same. Everything else locked. Do not change the atmosphere, the tree, the portal, the crowd, the colour temperature, or the foreground buttress roots. 2.39:1 cinematic anamorphic. 35mm grain. Extremely slow forward push toward portal. Photorealistic painterly. Barry Jenkins deep-shadow cinematography. NEGATIVE PROMPT no more than seven steps, no fewer than seven steps, no steps without Adinkra carving, no plain step risers, no uncarved stone, no eight chevrons, no six chevrons, no dark throne at step base, no prominent figure at right margin, no lit face at crowd edge, no drums as fixed structures, no warm ambient fill light
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USE THIS IMAGE AS BASE. Retain exactly: the cotton tree with portal ring embedded in trunk, liquid gold rippling event horizon, SEVEN lit chevrons around the portal ring, SEVEN stone steps rising from red laterite earth to the portal threshold, deep indigo pre-dawn atmosphere, portal as dominant light source, crowd of 200 in dark silhouette with ceremony white at mid-ground, processional axis open, buttress roots of flanking trees in extreme foreground left and right, scattered oil torch amber pools at ground level, aerial hanging roots framing the portal on both sides, incense smoke low across the red earth. CHANGE ONE — AKUA: The figure at the far right margin must be made almost invisible. Reduce her to a silhouette — no lit face, no prominent dark robes, no foreground presence. She stands at the absolute edge where lamplight ends and forest begins. Only the faintest edge of her face catches the last oil torch. She is the same height as the crowd figures. She is not in the foreground. She is at the crowd margin, barely there, facing the portal while everyone else faces the centre. She should be discoverable on second viewing, not immediately visible. CHANGE TWO — THE STOOL: Remove the dark throne figure at the step base. Replace with the Golden Stool on its carved hardwood plinth — a wooden seat covered in hammered gold sheet, small and bright, catching the portal light from above and throwing gold back upward. Four small clay braziers with white smoke columns flanking it. Eight Okomfo priests in pure white standing still beside it. The gold of the Stool must rhyme visually with the gold of the portal above — two golds in conversation across exactly SEVEN steps of vertical distance. CHANGE THREE — SEVEN STEP ADINKRA: There are exactly SEVEN stone steps rising from the red earth to the portal ring. Each of the SEVEN step risers must carry one large distinct Adinkra symbol carved in deep relief across the full width of that step. Seven steps, seven different symbols, one per step, ascending in order from ground level to portal threshold. The symbols are lit from below by the nearest torch. They are readable from the processional axis. The SEVEN steps correspond directly to the SEVEN chevrons on the portal ring above — steps are the key, the portal is the lock. This one-to-one correspondence must be visually legible: count the steps, count the chevrons, the number is the same. Everything else locked. Do not change the atmosphere, the tree, the portal, the crowd, the colour temperature, or the foreground buttress roots. 2.39:1 cinematic anamorphic. 35mm grain. Extremely slow forward push toward portal. Photorealistic painterly. Barry Jenkins deep-shadow cinematography. NEGATIVE PROMPT no more than seven steps, no fewer than seven steps, no steps without Adinkra carving, no plain step risers, no uncarved stone, no eight chevrons, no six chevrons, no dark throne at step base, no prominent figure at right margin, no lit face at crowd edge, no drums as fixed structures, no warm ambient fill light
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USE THIS IMAGE AS BASE. Retain exactly: the cotton tree with portal ring embedded in trunk, liquid gold rippling event horizon, SEVEN lit chevrons around the portal ring, SEVEN stone steps rising from red laterite earth to the portal threshold, deep indigo pre-dawn atmosphere, portal as dominant light source, crowd of 200 in dark silhouette with ceremony white at mid-ground, processional axis open, buttress roots of flanking trees in extreme foreground left and right, scattered oil torch amber pools at ground level, aerial hanging roots framing the portal on both sides, incense smoke low across the red earth. CHANGE ONE — AKUA: The figure at the far right margin must be made almost invisible. Reduce her to a silhouette — no lit face, no prominent dark robes, no foreground presence. She stands at the absolute edge where lamplight ends and forest begins. Only the faintest edge of her face catches the last oil torch. She is the same height as the crowd figures. She is not in the foreground. She is at the crowd margin, barely there, facing the portal while everyone else faces the centre. She should be discoverable on second viewing, not immediately visible. CHANGE TWO — THE STOOL: Remove the dark throne figure at the step base. Replace with the Golden Stool on its carved hardwood plinth — a wooden seat covered in hammered gold sheet, small and bright, catching the portal light from above and throwing gold back upward. Four small clay braziers with white smoke columns flanking it. Eight Okomfo priests in pure white standing still beside it. The gold of the Stool must rhyme visually with the gold of the portal above — two golds in conversation across exactly SEVEN steps of vertical distance. CHANGE THREE — SEVEN STEP ADINKRA: There are exactly SEVEN stone steps rising from the red earth to the portal ring. Each of the SEVEN step risers must carry one large distinct Adinkra symbol carved in deep relief across the full width of that step. Seven steps, seven different symbols, one per step, ascending in order from ground level to portal threshold. The symbols are lit from below by the nearest torch. They are readable from the processional axis. The SEVEN steps correspond directly to the SEVEN chevrons on the portal ring above — steps are the key, the portal is the lock. This one-to-one correspondence must be visually legible: count the steps, count the chevrons, the number is the same. Everything else locked. Do not change the atmosphere, the tree, the portal, the crowd, the colour temperature, or the foreground buttress roots. 2.39:1 cinematic anamorphic. 35mm grain. Extremely slow forward push toward portal. Photorealistic painterly. Barry Jenkins deep-shadow cinematography. NEGATIVE PROMPT no more than seven steps, no fewer than seven steps, no steps without Adinkra carving, no plain step risers, no uncarved stone, no eight chevrons, no six chevrons, no dark throne at step base, no prominent figure at right margin, no lit face at crowd edge, no drums as fixed structures, no warm ambient fill light
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USE THIS IMAGE AS BASE. Retain exactly: the cotton tree with portal ring embedded in trunk, liquid gold rippling event horizon, SEVEN lit chevrons around the portal ring, SEVEN stone steps rising from red laterite earth to the portal threshold, deep indigo pre-dawn atmosphere, portal as dominant light source, crowd of 200 in dark silhouette with ceremony white at mid-ground, processional axis open, buttress roots of flanking trees in extreme foreground left and right, scattered oil torch amber pools at ground level, aerial hanging roots framing the portal on both sides, incense smoke low across the red earth. CHANGE ONE — AKUA: The figure at the far right margin must be made almost invisible. Reduce her to a silhouette — no lit face, no prominent dark robes, no foreground presence. She stands at the absolute edge where lamplight ends and forest begins. Only the faintest edge of her face catches the last oil torch. She is the same height as the crowd figures. She is not in the foreground. She is at the crowd margin, barely there, facing the portal while everyone else faces the centre. She should be discoverable on second viewing, not immediately visible. CHANGE TWO — THE STOOL: Remove the dark throne figure at the step base. Replace with the Golden Stool on its carved hardwood plinth — a wooden seat covered in hammered gold sheet, small and bright, catching the portal light from above and throwing gold back upward. Four small clay braziers with white smoke columns flanking it. Eight Okomfo priests in pure white standing still beside it. The gold of the Stool must rhyme visually with the gold of the portal above — two golds in conversation across exactly SEVEN steps of vertical distance. CHANGE THREE — SEVEN STEP ADINKRA: There are exactly SEVEN stone steps rising from the red earth to the portal ring. Each of the SEVEN step risers must carry one large distinct Adinkra symbol carved in deep relief across the full width of that step. Seven steps, seven different symbols, one per step, ascending in order from ground level to portal threshold. The symbols are lit from below by the nearest torch. They are readable from the processional axis. The SEVEN steps correspond directly to the SEVEN chevrons on the portal ring above — steps are the key, the portal is the lock. This one-to-one correspondence must be visually legible: count the steps, count the chevrons, the number is the same. Everything else locked. Do not change the atmosphere, the tree, the portal, the crowd, the colour temperature, or the foreground buttress roots. 2.39:1 cinematic anamorphic. 35mm grain. Extremely slow forward push toward portal. Photorealistic painterly. Barry Jenkins deep-shadow cinematography. NEGATIVE PROMPT no more than seven steps, no fewer than seven steps, no steps without Adinkra carving, no plain step risers, no uncarved stone, no eight chevrons, no six chevrons, no dark throne at step base, no prominent figure at right margin, no lit face at crowd edge, no drums as fixed structures, no warm ambient fill light
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USE THIS IMAGE AS BASE. Retain exactly: the cotton tree with portal ring embedded in trunk, liquid gold rippling event horizon, SEVEN lit chevrons around the portal ring, SEVEN stone steps rising from red laterite earth to the portal threshold, deep indigo pre-dawn atmosphere, portal as dominant light source, crowd of 200 in dark silhouette with ceremony white at mid-ground, processional axis open, buttress roots of flanking trees in extreme foreground left and right, scattered oil torch amber pools at ground level, aerial hanging roots framing the portal on both sides, incense smoke low across the red earth. CHANGE ONE — AKUA: The figure at the far right margin must be made almost invisible. Reduce her to a silhouette — no lit face, no prominent dark robes, no foreground presence. She stands at the absolute edge where lamplight ends and forest begins. Only the faintest edge of her face catches the last oil torch. She is the same height as the crowd figures. She is not in the foreground. She is at the crowd margin, barely there, facing the portal while everyone else faces the centre. She should be discoverable on second viewing, not immediately visible. CHANGE TWO — THE STOOL: Remove the dark throne figure at the step base. Replace with the Golden Stool on its carved hardwood plinth — a wooden seat covered in hammered gold sheet, small and bright, catching the portal light from above and throwing gold back upward. Four small clay braziers with white smoke columns flanking it. Eight Okomfo priests in pure white standing still beside it. The gold of the Stool must rhyme visually with the gold of the portal above — two golds in conversation across exactly SEVEN steps of vertical distance. CHANGE THREE — SEVEN STEP ADINKRA: There are exactly SEVEN stone steps rising from the red earth to the portal ring. Each of the SEVEN step risers must carry one large distinct Adinkra symbol carved in deep relief across the full width of that step. Seven steps, seven different symbols, one per step, ascending in order from ground level to portal threshold. The symbols are lit from below by the nearest torch. They are readable from the processional axis. The SEVEN steps correspond directly to the SEVEN chevrons on the portal ring above — steps are the key, the portal is the lock. This one-to-one correspondence must be visually legible: count the steps, count the chevrons, the number is the same. Everything else locked. Do not change the atmosphere, the tree, the portal, the crowd, the colour temperature, or the foreground buttress roots. 2.39:1 cinematic anamorphic. 35mm grain. Extremely slow forward push toward portal. Photorealistic painterly. Barry Jenkins deep-shadow cinematography. NEGATIVE PROMPT no more than seven steps, no fewer than seven steps, no steps without Adinkra carving, no plain step risers, no uncarved stone, no eight chevrons, no six chevrons, no dark throne at step base, no prominent figure at right margin, no lit face at crowd edge, no drums as fixed structures, no warm ambient fill light
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USE THIS IMAGE AS BASE. Retain exactly: the cotton tree with portal ring embedded in trunk, liquid gold rippling event horizon, SEVEN lit chevrons around the portal ring, SEVEN stone steps rising from red laterite earth to the portal threshold, deep indigo pre-dawn atmosphere, portal as dominant light source, crowd of 200 in dark silhouette with ceremony white at mid-ground, processional axis open, buttress roots of flanking trees in extreme foreground left and right, scattered oil torch amber pools at ground level, aerial hanging roots framing the portal on both sides, incense smoke low across the red earth. CHANGE ONE — AKUA: The figure at the far right margin must be made almost invisible. Reduce her to a silhouette — no lit face, no prominent dark robes, no foreground presence. She stands at the absolute edge where lamplight ends and forest begins. Only the faintest edge of her face catches the last oil torch. She is the same height as the crowd figures. She is not in the foreground. She is at the crowd margin, barely there, facing the portal while everyone else faces the centre. She should be discoverable on second viewing, not immediately visible. CHANGE TWO — THE STOOL: Remove the dark throne figure at the step base. Replace with the Golden Stool on its carved hardwood plinth — a wooden seat covered in hammered gold sheet, small and bright, catching the portal light from above and throwing gold back upward. Four small clay braziers with white smoke columns flanking it. Eight Okomfo priests in pure white standing still beside it. The gold of the Stool must rhyme visually with the gold of the portal above — two golds in conversation across exactly SEVEN steps of vertical distance. CHANGE THREE — SEVEN STEP ADINKRA: There are exactly SEVEN stone steps rising from the red earth to the portal ring. Each of the SEVEN step risers must carry one large distinct Adinkra symbol carved in deep relief across the full width of that step. Seven steps, seven different symbols, one per step, ascending in order from ground level to portal threshold. The symbols are lit from below by the nearest torch. They are readable from the processional axis. The SEVEN steps correspond directly to the SEVEN chevrons on the portal ring above — steps are the key, the portal is the lock. This one-to-one correspondence must be visually legible: count the steps, count the chevrons, the number is the same. Everything else locked. Do not change the atmosphere, the tree, the portal, the crowd, the colour temperature, or the foreground buttress roots. 2.39:1 cinematic anamorphic. 35mm grain. Extremely slow forward push toward portal. Photorealistic painterly. Barry Jenkins deep-shadow cinematography. NEGATIVE PROMPT no more than seven steps, no fewer than seven steps, no steps without Adinkra carving, no plain step risers, no uncarved stone, no eight chevrons, no six chevrons, no dark throne at step base, no prominent figure at right margin, no lit face at crowd edge, no drums as fixed structures, no warm ambient fill light
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