PROJECTILES
Projectiles, that is arrows, both concrete causing death and metaphorical causing disease, where thought to originate from the chips of the Giant Oak that was felled by a hero.
This theme of felling the primaeval Giant Oak (or other tree or liana) is world wide.
According to the myth in the beginning there were four maidens who were making hay in a field. The hay was burnt by the god Tursas and from the ashes the Great Oak grew.
The tree served as a heavenly hinge or supporting pillar which connected the earth with people to the heaven and gods. This was before Our Time, in the primaeval chaos of the Dream Time.
When the tree was felled the connection was broken and the world with reason, as we know it, was originated.
In the Finnish mythology the feller of the Great Oak was a man, black and small that came out of the sea.
There came a small man from the sea
no longer than a span
hardly taller than a thumb
There came a small man
with knees thicker than a fathom
and thighs even twice as thick
Shoes of stone he had
and a rocky helmet
and mittens of brass
And with a copper helve was his axe
As the black man chops the Oak the chips are thrown to the sea and driven by the wind on a cape.
There a black dog finds them and takes them to a sorcerer who knows how to use them: he makes arrows.
So as the Cosmos is created with light and earth and the conscious man the arrows of evel are also made simultaneously.