One or another type of throwing weapon, such as a disc, was used by almost all the peoples of the earth. For example, the Australian aborigines still use a similar, but even more mysterious weapon for hunting - the boomerang.
Weapon of the Gods
How, without knowing the wheels, without knowing about aerodynamics, could you have come up with such a shape? The natives explain this simply - the knowledge about the boomerang: its shape, technique of application and manufacture, they were taught by spirits that live in some plants.
Throwing discs of various sizes and shapes were widely used by the ancient Aryans, the progenitor people of all white peoples of Europe, whose languages belong to the Indo-European group. The use of throwing discs by the Aryans as weapons is described in detail in the Mahabharata.
It says that the discs were originally a powerful weapon of the gods.
The Indian Vedas tells of the Sudarshan fiery disk which was made from the Sun itself and had two rows of ten million fiery tongues at the edges, moving in opposite directions.
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In the Mahabharata, a similar divine weapon is described - a fiery throwing disc with a steel bar attached to the middle, which was Krishna's favorite weapon.
It is likely that in ancient times there was a secret throwing technique that allowed throwing a disc along a boomerang-like trajectory, or along some other special trajectory.
Sports equipment
If it were not for the Olympic Games, where discus throwing is one of the official disciplines, modern mankind would know even less about this mysterious ancient weapon.
Greek disco thrower and Japanese shurikens.
It is believed that discus throwing was one of the favorite physical exercises of ancient people. Therefore, it was included in the program of the Olympic Games of antiquity as part of the pentathlon (pentathlon).
It is noteworthy that in ancient Greece (Hellas) during the Olympic Games, all athletes had to perform naked. And this is not someone's erotic whim, but one of the methods of checking to make sure that the athlete is a man and a person, and does not have any additional devices. All sporting achievements were to be carried out exclusively thanks to the strength and abilities of the human body.
By the way, the invention of throwing discs could well be explained by divine origin. However, official science also denies the gods.