Garuda and Icarus - Winged men who flew close to the sun

Icarus - Son of Daedalus. He and his dad both were prisoned by King Minos, after they helped Theseus to survive the labyrinth they built.To escape from prisonhood, Daedalus built two pairs of wings made out of wax and feathers for himself and his son.
Icarus was warned by his dad not to fly too close to sun, yet he did and after wax melted the wings came off and so did he.

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Garuda - Half-man,half-eagle. Born to Kasyapa and Vinata. He and his mom became slaves to his aunt and her kids/his half-brothers-serpents after losing a bet. As part of servitude he had to take all his step-brothers(snakes) on his back and fly them close to sun, one day he flew too close and all the snakes burnt and fell down. He felt guilty and wanted to free him as well as his mom from the slavery and he took the challenge to fly to heaven and retrieve Amritha.

Moral of the story: This is one good reason why god clipped human race's wings. And clearly here Garuda took "take somebody under your wing" in complete wrong way.

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