According to the research of the Hungarian Asian religious art historian Zsuzsanna Gulácsi , this painting mainly presents three themes: glory, incarnation , and birth celebration. The top of the center of the picture depicts ten Ji Letian in brightly colored costumes, driving two colorful auspicious clouds from the sky. Their position in the picture and the headlights behind their heads indicate their extraordinary identities. On each side of Ji Letian, there are four gods dressed as generals, wearing gold armor and black boots, standing on the colorful clouds and fog. They are holding tributes or banners. They may be the eight heavenly soldiers (English: soldierly angels ; Latin: angelorum exercitibus ) appearing in Manichae literature and art , belonging to the King of Glory. The image of these generals is also seen in the seventh heaven in the " Manichaean Diagram of the Universe ".
