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Garuda - a semibird-semiman, able to speak on-human

Many Indian legends contain plots (stories) about a huge mythical bird garuda which was capable to carry people. One of them tells about the theft of soma-amrita by this bird - a beverage of immortality from Indra garden on a top of the Meru mount. In the colourful ancient description a garuda appears before readers

in the appearance of "a tsar of feathery, a bird-man or a bird-human", who can speak on-human. According to one myth a garuda (or, more possibly, the garuda or simply Garuda) had been created the first among the birds and then became the rideable ( or rather flyable) bird of Vishnu.

The "Vishnu-purana" names a (the) garuda the son of Kashyapa, the tsar of the birds, the rideable animal of Vishna.

Garuda - the tsar of the feathered, endowed with great force

According to the "Vishna-purana", a (the) garuda had received authority all over the birds. It (or he) had been endowed with great power and immeasurable force, on his back the bird could deliver several sacred wise men simultaneously to the distant northern mount Meru. The colourful appearance of a (the) garuda in the description is amplifyed by the next fantastic details:

"the body from gold, the wings is of dazzling red colour, a human head with a beak, when a garuda had a seat on trees, under his heaviness branches and trunks were broken".
The appearance of the ancient Aryan igneous bird - the source of the dazzling red light (at the garuda birth, gods dazzled by his glowing have accepted this bird-man for an embodiment of the sun) bears a strong resemblance to

the appearence of the Firebird from Russian legends and the tsar of the birds - Simurg from Persian legends.

A garuda - the peculiar magic bird, exceeding by his size the sizes of eagles, with horns on a head, which symbolized in ancient times the energy of light considering in the Bon religion as the most active element among the five elements. A garuda - one of the main deities of the Bon.

Descriptions and images of garuda

The image of a garuda was saved in myths of many northern people and people of Central Eurasia. Buryats know him under the name Herdig, Kalmyks - Herd, Mongols - Hangaruda. In the Northern Ural Mountains a great number of bird-men's bronzed figures is discovered. Some of the discovered bronzed figures show beings with three heads. Metallic amulets of a garuda occur very often in the Western and Northern Tibet.


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On many statuettes and pictures a garuda is imaged with horns and resembles a little the "old people" from the "Popol-Vuh" and the other works of Maya, Naua and Aztecs, and a mythical basilisk (cockatrice) . All of them had imposing sizes, large wings, as a rule, had a bird's beak and membranous paws, "wore" horns. However, if the first two types of mythical beings with a high probability was dragons-people or demons-snakes (reptiles), a garuda had no any ratio to them. To the contrary, according to the "Vishnu Purana" and the "Mahabharata", it (or he)was an ardent opponent and a fighter of snakes.