Hecatoncheires is the name of a giant with one hundred arms that appears in Greek
myths. He apparently gave the gods a lot of trouble by throwing rocks. Among peoples the Greeks conquered, perhaps
there were stone-throwing combat units of fifty or more warriors....
Throwing stones isn't exactly an admired activity, but it was apparently a very effective form of
combat. Rock-throwing sticks, bows (sort of working on the same principle as combat versions of pin-ball machines),
and anti-fortress catapults all were impressive, I'm sure, but nothing beats the simplicity of old-fashioned rock-throwing
by hand.
Compared to the first primitive guns, it seems likely that bows and crossbows were extremely
fast to use and effective in slowing down the enemy. On the news today, even though we now have advanced firearms
and other weaponry, we still see ordinary people dressed in street clothes using waves of stone throwing to take
on fullyequipped riot police (Ahh, humans and their history...).
After being defeated battling with a variety of gods and being confined, perhaps the huge hundred-limbed creature
here is really a Cthulhu? I made it look humanoid since it was supposed to be a "giant"....
For the background here, I used a view of the sunset as seen from underwater. It was one
of the images I had stockpiled in hopes of using someday, but when I actually did use it, it didn't quite have
the effect I had hoped for. It's another case of just missing the mark.
