hamsa

…r tiger means Durga, the warrior Goddess; the swan or wild goose, the hamsa , means Saraswati and Brahma; the mouse means Ganesha; the peacock means Murugan; the owl means Lakshmi.

Her mount is the hamsa , the swan or wild goose, which the tradition credits with the power to separate milk from water when the two are mixed, the perfect emblem of viveka , the discernment that tells the true…

Brahma takes the form of a swan, hamsa , and flies upward to find its crown.

He is pictured with four heads, usually read as the four Vedas he utters, seated on a lotus, riding a haṃsa , the goose or swan, with the goddess Sarasvati as his consort.

And a great many are the sound's own first syllable wearing a costume. Haṃsa , the goose, is HA.

Srividyayukta - joined with the Sri Vidya mantra itself. Hamsamatrika - with the Hamsa breath-mantra.

And hamsa means "the swan," the bird that has been, since the Vedas, the symbol of the liberated soul, the one who moves between the worlds and is at home in neither, who can, the old image says, separate milk …

… that differ from what the Paramananda Tantra , the Para Tantra , the Hamsa Maheshwara , and the Kadi Mata preserve as correct.