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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thalia" data-source="post: 1680527" data-attributes="member: 16961"><p>True. Bows, and arrows in particular, are a strong motif in Shintoism (also Zen, but that came later.) For example, Japanese people go to a Shrine on New Year's Day and often buy a hamaya, or an "Arrow of Demon Slaying" (literally, this is what the Chinese characters mean.) These arrows are symbols of purification and truth. At the following New Year's Day one is supposed to return the arrow to the Shrine for it to be ritually burnt (to destroy the negative energy it has absorbed over the past year.) Also, the Japanese characters for medecine and healing contain the symbol for arrow, which is thought to stem from the "demon-exocising" power of the symbol. I played for a short time in an Oriental Adventures campaign where one player created a Shinto-esque archer-priest. Very cool.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>