In my continuing efforts to put together a complete outline for Project Goliath, I keep stumbling over new sling references online. My latest aim was to find out if slinging was present in Asia and the Pacific Islands, and it is. I knew the Chinese had trebuchets, so the sling-concept was definitely there. Here are a few links that peaked my interest:
The Northern Marianas Islands:
About 2/3rds down.
http://www.pacificworlds.com/cnmi/arrival/ancients.cfmThe 5 Shaolin Kung Fu Weapon Groups
"Rope Sling Shot - Dang Gong"
About 2/3rds down.
http://www.shaolin.com.au/weapon.htmlEaster Island and Hawaii
"They had hewn into the rock and constructed an artificial defence ditch with a rectangular bottom twelve feet deep, forty feet wide and nearly two miles long, Sling stones and carved wooden slabs (Rongo Rongo tablets) were found amongst the ashes."
http://www.users.on.net/~mkfenn/page4.htmChinese work Song:
"but i do allright with this sling i got
someone gimme a stone gimme a stone gimme a stone"
http://www.littlefeat.net/_Music/CWS.htmlChamorro People of Guam - sling makers
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/cultural/oldworld/asia/chamorro.htmlTibet - As It Was
near the very bottom.
To this the Lama replied, "Be not despairing; there is no cause whatsoever for such abject fear. We, the followers of Naropa and Maitri, possess those Truths which can save the greatest of sinners in the twinkling of an eye - just as one single stone from a sling serveth to frighten a hundred birds simultaneously. All those sentient creatures, and these birds and beasts which have been killed on this occasion by the hail storm shall be born again (in far future lives) as thy foremost disciples when thou shalt attain to Buddhahood."
http://www.cosmicharmony.com/Tibet/TibetBefore.htmChris