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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 of the mountain. She tells him they must fly on the cosmic swan on an interstellar journey to save the Earth from destruction by a powerful wave of plasma from an exploding star which she learned from the mother of the Cosmic Swan.