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“Garuda” (2010)
On my last trip to Bangkok, I went to Wat Pho, a temple which is known also as Temple of Reclining Budha. Apart from the giant Budha itself, I took a little closer to see Garuda, which are placed around the temple.
Garuda ‘the devourer’ is the mythical ‘Lord of birds’ in both the Hindu and Buddhist traditions. In the Hindu Puranic legends, Garuda is the son of Kashyapa and Vinata. He is said to have emerged, fully grown, from an egg, after incubating for five hundred years.
It is said that Garuda has always been the sworn enemy of snakes and nagas. The archetypal legend of the enmity that exists between birds of prey and serpents occurs across a wide spectrum of transcultural mythologies.
