![]() ![]() Cylon Centurions in sci-fi franchise Battlestar Galactica.Alpha Centauri, a green hermaphrodite hexapod with one huge eye Doctor Who character first seen in The Curse of Peladon.Horus, an Egyptian god whose left eye represents the moon, healing, protection, and restoration.Ra, an Egyptian god whose right eye represents life, immortality, and light, often portrayed as a sun.Tepegoz, a one-eyed ogre in the Oghuz Turkish epic Book of Dede Korkut.Snallygaster, a one-eyed dragon-like creature said to inhabit the hills surrounding Washington, D.C.Psoglav, a one-eyed dog-headed monster in Serbian mythology.Popobawa, a Tanzanian shetani (evil spirit) that often takes the form of a one-eyed bat-like creature.Papinijuwari, Australian sky deities with vampiric tendencies.A one-eyed giant in a story from a from Georgia, in the Caucasus, whose story parallels the story of Polyphemus (see Polyphemus#Possible origins).One of three sisters in the Brothers Grimm fairy tale One-Eye, Two-Eyes, and Three-Eyes.Ojáncanu, one-eyed giant with a ten-fingered hand, a ten-toed foot, a long beard and red hair of Cantabrian mythology who embodies evil, cruelty and brutality.Odin, a Norse god (he was born with two eyes, but traded one for a drink from Mimir's well).Mapinguari, giant sloth-like cryptid of Brazil and Bolivia often described as having one eye.Likho, an embodiment of evil fate and misfortune in Slavic mythology.Kabandha appears in Hindu mythology as a character in the Ramayana. Kabandha, a demon with no head or neck with one large eye on the breast and a mouth on the stomach.A pair of such birds were dependent on each other and inseparable. Jian, a bird in Chinese mythology with only one eye and one wing.Kasa-obake, one-eyed sentient umbrella yokai of Japanese folklore.Hitotsume-nyūdō could pass for really tall human priests if not for the large, single eye in the center of their faces. ![]() Hitotsume-kozō, monsters ( obake) in Japanese folklore, with a single giant eye in the center of the face.Some yokais, in the Japanese folklore, have a single giant eye:.Hagen or Högni, a Burgundian warrior in German and Norse legend, depicted as one-eyed in some accounts.They were forced by Perseus, by stealing their eye, into revealing the location of Medusa. The Graeae, the three witches (or sisters) that shared one eye and one tooth between them often depicted as clairvoyant.The Eye of Providence is a representation of Divine Providence.Fachan, a creature from Celtic mythology with one eye, one arm and one leg.Duwa Sokhor, an ancestor of Genghis Khan, according to The Secret History of the Mongols, who had one eye in his forehead.Dajjal, a figure in Islam akin to the Antichrist, who has one eye.Steropes, one of the three Cyclops smith gods in Greek mythology.Brontes, one of the three Cyclops smith gods in Greek mythology.Arges, one of the three Cyclops smith gods in Greek mythology.Polyphemus, a giant Cyclops shepherd in Greek mythology.They had a single eye in the centre of their forehead. Cyclopes (singular: Cyclops), one-eyed giants in Greek mythology, including Polyphemus.Bungisngis, one-eyed giants of Philippine folklore.Balor, a giant in Irish mythology, with one eye in his forehead that would wreak destruction when opened.They had a single eye in the centre of the forehead. Arimaspi, legendary people of northern Scythia, "always at war with their neighbours" and stealing gold from griffins.There are many creatures in the mythology, folklore, and fiction of many cultures who are one-eyed, this page lists such one-eyed creatures. ![]()
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