Garuda Physiology

The power to use the abilities of the Garuda. Variation of Mythical Avian Physiology and Hindu Deity Physiology.

Also Called[]

Garuda Mimicry
Suparna Physiology

Capabilities[]

User with this ability either is or can transform into a Garuda, which is either a monstrously powerful Hindu demigod whose sheer might eclipses the likes of Indra & his army and is also the companion of the god Vishnu, or in Buddhism, Garuda is the name of a race of enormous predatory birds with immense intelligence and social organization. They have the golden body of a strong human with an eagle's beak & red or golden wings large enough to block out the sun.

They also have the ability to grow large or small, to appear and disappear at will, and at least some of them have the magical power of changing into human form when they wish to have dealings with people.

Applications[]

Absolute Immortality (According to Vaishnavite beliefs, he will survive the end of the universe and survived the beginning of creation)
Absolute Strength (Garuda can carry the entire universe on his single feather as he possesses "infinite physical power")
- Absolute Condition (The thousand-eyed Purandara was surprised and concluded that the bird must be a great being. He said, “O supreme among birds! I wish to know the extreme limits of your incomparable strength. I wish to be your eternal friend.”’ ‘Garuda said, “O Purandara! As you wish, let there be friendship between us... On a single one of my feathers, without any fatigue, I can bear the wide world with its mountains, forests, oceans and even you suspended there, even all the worlds together, with all their mobile and immobile objects. Know this to be my great strength")
- Absolute Defense (Via even a single feather as well as the fact that he could fight several deities)
Absolute Speed (In Adi Parva Chapter 26 Garuda, the lord of all the birds, flew over 100,000 yojanas in the briefest possible time. As if in a moment, he reached the mountain his father had described and released the branch, which fell down with a great roar. On being struck by the wind unleashed by the bird’s wings, the king of mountains trembled)
Absolute Speed Flight (He has the power to swiftly fly anywhere)
- Meta Teleportation (According to the rites, these great sages, rigid in their austerities, poured libations into the sacrificial fire and chanted mantras saying, “The gods will have another Indra, capable of going anywhere at will and capable of summoning up any power at will. He will bring great fear to the present king of the gods. Through the fruits of our austerities, there will be born one, swift as the mind, who will be a hundred times better than Indra in strength and valour)
Nigh-Complete Arsenal (Should possess almost all powers as the Vahana or mount of Vishnu)
Size Manipulation (Garuda is infinitely strong (whose size can go beyond universe))
Avian Manipulation (King of all birds)
Combat Mastery/Absolute (Defeated every single Deva, including Indra)
Divine Element Manipulation (Can control divine elements)
- Divine Lightning Manipulation (He could likely control the divine lightning that the Vajra attacked him with)
- Divine Winds Manipulation (His wings when they are flapped cause heaven and earth to shake, according to the Puranas)
  - Stagnation (According to another interpretation of the Puranas, his wing flaps cause heaven, earth and hell to stop spinning)
- Holy Fire Manipulation (Is said to be able to control fire in the Vishnu and Garuda Puranas).
Archetype: Divine Slayer (Souti said, ‘O best of the twice born! When this turmoil was going on, Garuda, the king of the birds, swiftly came to where the gods were. Having seen his great strength, the gods began to tremble in fear. They even began to attack each other with their weapons. Among those guarding the soma, was Bhouvana,95 as radiant as the lightning and fire and unparalleled in his great valour. But after an instant’s great fight, he lay dead, ripped apart by the beaks, talons and wings of the Indra among birds. Darkening the worlds with a great storm of dust created by his wings, the giant bird overwhelmed the gods, and overcome with that dust, the gods were deluded. Those who were guarding the amrita could not see it because of that dust. Thus, Garuda brought complete turmoil to the world of the gods. He ripped the gods apart with his wings and beak)
Absolute Fear Inducement (Even when people jump off his back, fear shakes throughout the entire universe. After saying this, Jagannatah raised his closed right fist. Without any weapon, he jumped down from the back of Tarksya (Garuḍa) and dashed (against the Daitya). While Govinda was running, all the three worlds shook. The entire universe swooned. Devas and demons became excessively afraid)
Fire Mimicry - Was born as an inferno so vast & intense that the gods thought he was either: Agni, the god of fire, & praised him as such "the fire which ends all existence" & begged him to spare them)
Guardianship (In most iconography especially Vaishnavite iconography, he guards Vishnu)
- Soul Embodiment (According to the scholar George Williams, Garuda is the embodiment of Atman, or the soul, at the deepest level)
- Absolute Law Manipulation (In the same Purana, he is able to control laws)
- Meta Time Manipulation (Can also control time)
Invisibility (Can turn invisible)
Omni-Immunity and Omni-Negation (In Adi Parva chapter 30 Various omens began to appear among the gods foreboding fear. Indra's favourite thunderbolt blazed up in a fright. Meteors with flames and smoke, loosened from the welkin, shot down during the day. And the weapons of the Vasus, the Rudras, the Adityas, the Sabhyas, the Maruts, and other gods, began to spend their force against one another. Such a thing had never happened even during the war between the gods and the Asuras. And the winds blew accompanied with thunder, and meteors fell by thousands. And the sky, though cloudless, roared tremendously. As the bird, the enemy of the gods, flew on with the amrita, Indra powerfully struck him with his vajra. Struck by the vajra, Garuda, supreme among those who fly, tauntingly told Indra in a pleasant voice, “I shall respect the rishi from whose bones the vajra has been constructed. O Shatakratu! I shall respect the vajra and you too. I will cast off one of my feathers and you will never be able to find its ends. I have not felt the slightest pain at being struck by your vajra)
Personal Size Manipulation (Can change size at will)
Raw Power - Has terrified the ocean into returning a bird's egg & ignored the strike of Indra's greatest weapon, the Vajra
Transcendent Bird Physiology (Is a godly bird)
- Wing Manifestation (One of his wings, in terms of wingspan, according to the Garuda Purana is able to block out the Sun)
  - Flight (He can fly anywhere)