Nāga
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In various Asian religious traditions, the Nāgas are a divine, or semi-divine, race of half-human, half-serpent beings that reside in the netherworld, and can occasionally take human or part-human for
A nāga couple, featured as a Chennakeshava Temple relief
Patanjali as Śeṣa.
Mucalinda sheltering Gautama Buddha (Buddha in Naga Prok attitude) at Wat Phra That Doi Suthep in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Nāga at the steps of a building in the Wat Phra Kaew in Bangkok.
Garuda
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Garuda is a Hindu deity who is primarily depicted as the mount of the Hindu god Vishnu. This divine creature is mentioned in the Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain faiths. Garuda is also the half-brother of th
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…Manthana, Vasuki, a nagaraja who abides on Shiva's neck, became the churning rope for churning of the Ocean of Milk. Their eternal archrival is the Garuḍa, the legendary semi-divine bird-like deity. Vishnu is originally portrayed in the form sheltered by Sheshanāga or reclining on Shesha, but the iconography…
Garuda, carved wooden sculpture, 19th Century. National Museum, New Delhi.
Lord Garuda, Raja Ravi Varma
Relief depicting a portable Garuda pillar, one of the oldest images of Garuda, Bharhut, c. 100 BCE.
Garuda is found in Vishnu temples; above: in Belur, Karnataka