From mythology to pop culture, and from pop culture to the sheer stupidity of certain people mistaking them for Bigfoot, I hereby declare the cyclops the most gorgeous beast of all. To me, at least. According to Othenio Abel, the origin of this legend came from the Greeks getting confused after finding an elephant skull. Because of the trunk, there’s a hole right in the forehead that, to their eyes, looked like a great spot for a single eye
Unfortunately, that theory got debunked later on, since, well, there are zero records or proof that the Greeks actually found an elephant skull to come up with the cyclops. Othenio literally just went with whatever the voices in his head told him.
Either way, I'm still glad this beast has so many visual representations. There are paintings that portray cyclopes as blind men with an eye on their forehead, while others depict them as humanoids with no ears and not-so-pleasant faces, also with a single eye. Mike Wazowski works for me, I think he hits the sweet spot. Maybe he wasn't considered scary because he was the size of a golf ball, or because he didn't have a nose. If he had a nose, he might've actually been frightening. Honestly, that movie doesn't make much sense anyway—Sulley was way too handsome to be terrifying.
I draw cyclopes a lot, too. I even edited some My Candy Love sprites to make Candy even prettier than she already is
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