L16B. Eyes on my knees.
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Thecreature's eyes or mouths are located on the joints (knees, etc.).
Taiwan - Philippines. Paywan [The sun laid an egg, the first man hatched out of it; only brother and sister escaped after the flood, got married, they have two children, they have eyes on their feet; the children got married, their children have eyes on on their knees; they got married too, their children have eyes where they are now]: Egli 1989:31; puyuma [Vaangao people, aka Vais, used to have a second person on the back of their heads; they tried to go forward and then in on the other side, as a result, they stood still all day; the pregnancy took place in the calf of the legs, and the baby was born from the big toe {legs?} ; my eyes were on my knees; they realized that it was so uncomfortable, they gradually became normal people]: Schröder 1981:183-184.
NW Coast. The Tlingits: Gunther 1962, fig.45 [full-face shirt depicting an anthropomorphized Grizzly; arms and legs apart; eyes on feet and fingers]; Holm 1965, fig.1 [painted profile image of the Raven's paw; round eye where the claws diverge]; hyda: Holm 1965, fig.53 [image on a wooden coffin; anthropomorphic guise with tongue sticking out in the center; hands or paws diverge at the bottom; eyes on the palms], 54 [painting on the chest; hand or paw with an eye in the palm of your hand]; quakiutl [painted image of a bird's paw in profile; round eye where claws diverge; Thunderbird; Raven]: Boas 1927, figs.251, 253 in Rands 1957, fig.7d, e.
(Cf. Plains. Wichita [The Shooting Star kills warriors; when he walks, thunder is heard; he has lively human eyes on his moccasins; the Coyote kills him]: Dorsey 1904a, No. 40:252-253; Spyro Mound [ engraved image on a shell disc; eye on the elbow of a human hand]: Rands 1957, fig.3d).
Southeast USA. Mississippi culture, Moundville [a stone disc depicting two woven horned rattlesnakes forming a ring; an open palm in the center with an eye on it]: Coe et al. 1986:59 (other examples in Rands 1957, fig.1).
Big Pool. Southern Utah [cannibals have an antelope with eyes below their horns, on their hips, ankles, shoulders, knees]: Lowie 1924, No. 24, 24a: 49-51.
Mesoamerica The Aztecs [Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca descended from heaven to the goddess of Earth; all the joints of her body had eyes and mouths, she bit them; both gods turned into two snakes, tore her in half, one by the left leg and right hand, the other by her right leg and left hand; from the half where her shoulders made the earth, the other half of the sky; to reward the Earth for its violence, other gods said that fruits would grow out of her; they made trees, flowers and herbs out of her hair, small grass and flowers from her skin, wells, springs and small caves from her eyes, and from the shoulders of a mountain]: Histoyre du Mechique 1905:30-31; Krickeberg 1928:4-6; Mendieta 1870:81; Portal 1986 [translated in Spanish]: 41; Huasteca [painted vessel in the form of a sitting woman with images of faces on her knees and a different type of face on genitals]: Bernal et al. 1968, fig.99; Mayan hieroglyphs (Piedras Negras, Copan) [oval with a circle inside (eye?) in the palm of your hand; human face protruding from the palm]: Rands 1957, fig.3f, g.
Antilles. Taino [a vessel in the form of a stylized anthropomorphic figure lying (the container is on the abdomen) and circles (apparently with eyes) on the joints of the body]: Schuster, Carpenter 1996, fig.395.
Llanos. Sicuani [Munuani (Munuane, Munuanë) catches fish, notices the reflection or shadow of a fisherman who has climbed a tree, hits him with an arrow, takes him home by raft or boat to eat; on the way, a person slips into the water unnoticed and runs away; arrows do no harm to M.; when he learns that M.'s eyes are on his knees, a person kills M. by hitting the knee with an arrow]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1992, No. 115-118:404-412.
Guiana. Kalinya [Europeans bring cannibals with mouths on their right elbow, left knee, and stomach; when cut to pieces, everyone becomes a new cannibal; Indians call sharks, they devour cannibals]: Magaña 1987, No. 19:239.
NW Amazon. Baniva [toes, elbows, knees singing]: Saake 1968:266
The Central Andes. Peru's southern coast (depicted on Nazca vessels): Harcourt 1935 [man playing the trumpet and flute; his elbows and knees have mouths and eyes; personalities are also shown in the character's breasts (Blasco Bosqued, Ramos Gomez 1980, pl.v); sometimes they are replaced by flutes everywhere (e.g. Bushnell 1957, pl.31); the idea could be that the character's whole body sings)], fig.1, 2; Schuster, Carpenter 1996, fig.397 [a painted vessel in the form of a naked woman with guises on her shoulders and knees and depicting a monster in place of her genitals].
Montagna - Jurua. Ashaninka (river campas) [demon whistles through holes in his knees]: Weiss 1975:286
Bolivia - Guaporé. Siriono [the Eresa-ata bird has four legs, seven eyes on its face, bat wings; eyes on its legs too]: Coimbra Sanz 1980:98.
Southern Amazon. Iranshe [man was fishing; saw a blond boy and girl Neykyú come out of the water; the girl got her hair entangled in a trap, the boy disappeared into the water; the fisherman, his wife and N. are losing weight because . eat only fish broth, and the meat goes somewhere; at night, the fisherman saw that the thief was Wanali, he had a second mouth on his hand; he ate with his hand, throwing it to the fish through the wall of the house; the next night the man left Owl to guard, she gave a signal that the man cut off his ugly hand; Marten promises to find V.'s house on a trail of blood, instead collects honey; V.'s house finds the Maned Wolf; Parrot, Toucan, Mutum and other birds kill V., dye them with his blood; Parrot and Arara make beaks for themselves from his axes]: Pereira 1985, No. 30:138-142.
(Wed. Chaco. Chamacoko [mouth on ankle]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1987a, No. 79-82, 86, 92:279, 298-299, 311, 317, 341-342, 360)