The houses on this street are actually mostly bicameral, with an entrance on each side of the fake. Maybe the cyclops was like that, his one-eye merely a fearsome decoration. HG once said to me, and it still makes me laugh for some reason: In the land of the one-eyed, the king is blind.
Excellent interview with someone from the CSIC with the promising name of Ángel de la Fuente. The news focus here is on set-piece declarations rather than combative cross-questioning, but that doesn’t mean that everyone is a primeval halfwit.