In Chinese yi means "change", jin means "tendons and sinews", while jing means "methods". Here was a character with flesh, blood and sinews. The internal organs, including generative system, veins, sinews, bone etc. You saw the sinews rippling beneath the cheap stuff of their sweaty shirts. Liver Xue nourishes the sinews, therefore, allowing physical exercise. Homer relates that Hermes invented the lyre from dried sinews stretched over a tortoise shell. The rope coils were often made of twisted bovine sinews, horsehair or women's hair. Spanish explorers described composite bows strengthened with buffalo sinews and "excellent shields" of buffalo hide. Other materials used were animal guts, animal sinews, and rawhide. Hunter-gatherers have used animal sinews as lashings and bindings. She had sewn the feather dress together using whale sinews. They made thread from the sinews of different animals and fish guts. The knee-pan of one was smashed, and the back sinews of the other torn. According to Apollodorus, Typhon managed to cut away Zeus' sinews from his body. This is made of water-tight skin with the hair removed, and is sewn with sinews.