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used as the logo of the Ministry of Finance. But the redesigned image of the wind-eating bird is different from the one on the official seal of Phrayā Rātchaphakdī (see figure 31). As regards the wind-eating bird, HRH Prince Kromphrayā Naritsarānuwattiwong gave the following explanation:
Nok wāyuphak, if translated literally, means wind-eating bird. A difficulty arose when the Cabinet charged HRH Prince Kromphrayā Naritsarānuwattiwong with adapting the seals of the ministries into patterns on uniform cuffs, stating that for old ministries which already had official seals, those old seals should be used if usable, and for new ministries without existing seals, the seals should be created anew. Having been thus ordered, the prince found that no ministry gave rise to such a difficulty as that from the Ministry of Finance. Phrayā Rātchaphakdī who acted as Secretary of State for Finance originally carried a Seal of Wind-Eating Bird and the wind-eating bird portrayed thereon was a bird from the Himmaphān Forest[b 1] which resembled an eagle. Believing that this was not correct, the prince pondered upon it and remembered that a regal headgear embroidered with feathers of a wind-eating bird had been mentioned somewhere. He then made a search and found it in a writ at the end of the book Royal Comments on the Records of Events According to the Memory of Krommalūang Narinthēwī. According to the passage thus found, wind-eating bird would denote kārawēk bird[b 2] because, in general, bird feathers used on every regal headgear could only be feathers of kārawēk birds. Upon comparing wind-eating birds with kārawēk birds, he found them to be compatible with each other. The kārawēk birds in our belief live normally amongst clouds in the heavens and consume wind as
