Suparna the "Golden Bird"

The word "Suparna", literally means, the 'Golden Bird'. It signifies Garuda the Vehicle of God Vishnu described in detail in many of the Puranas and epics like the Mahabharata. Although Suparna or Garuda is described as "A Golden winged Bird" with a body constituted in the form of Yajus and the Omkara or Pranava "Trivrith", constituted as his head while the rest of his wings and feathers are made up of Vedic vibrations or Chandas:

"Yas Suparno yajur nama

Chando gatrah Trivrit Shirah"

So described by Rishi Vedavyasa in the Mahabharata as "a heavenly bird whose feathers are really the Vedic Yajus Chandas and whose head represents the seed mantra and syllable "OM" called 'Trivrith'. Such, is the description of Suparna! The divine bird, is also described as the vehicle of the supreme God Maha Vishnu.

Strange, as the description is, it signifies nothing to the average modern reader, beyond a vague notion of a mythical bird which is more or less mystical imagination.

In the Greek and Roman mythology also the Gods of Olympus are Vedic gods described in Europeanized terminology, in a corrupted distoration of the names of Vedic Gods wherein the Sanskrit names have been corrupted linguistically, when Romanised and Italianised. When Anglicized it is even worse! So it becomes the Aquilla, is the heavenly bird of Greek mythology, just as Egyptian theology also had the national symbol of an Eagle with wide spread wings, described as 'Spread Eagle' which the modern Rosicrucians copied and parade it about!