Hamlet's Mill also informs us that the emperor of China had to draw his bow at Sirius:

May we have as a hypothesis that arrows are to be shot at celestial major objects in order to 'dethrone' them, in order to make the cosmic wheel of time move again?

But where is the arrow? Wilkinson informs us that a victorious king or god would invert his bow, showing the string towards the conquered enemies in what presumably is a gesture of dominance, while the surrendering warriors would hold their empty bows above their heads: