Cosmic Swan

A Dramatic Science Fiction story about a geologist, Mark, who is exploring the Himalayan mountains to find the source of increasingly powerful earthquakes. He meets a beautiful woman cult leader, Kusoom, who tells him a great being is about to be born. He is skeptical until he sees its eye in a deep cave. He realizes the source of the earthquakes is the emergence of the 'great being', a colossal bird hatching from beneath Mt. Kailas. He is caught up with the cult after the giant bird breaks out