The sacrifice of the Eye of Odin- it is so evocative of the awakening of the Third Eye of Shiva. Certainly both being Indo European cultures and the emphasis upon odd numbers in IE mythopoetic symbols.... very interesting....

Odin One-Eye. The sacrifice of an eye has often been symbolic of gaining spiritual vision. The idea is that by giving up physical vision, the eye that has past on to the spirit world can now see in the spirit world. Odin gave his eye up for many gifts, which eventually made him the head of the pantheon. The eye was only a part of his full sacrifice of himself on Yggdrasil.

"(Lenny- any place I could look for more information on crane magic?)"

I don't know much about it myself. In *the Religion of the Ancient Celts* (1911) J.A. MacCulloch suggests it was commonly used for both divination and incantation (he gives as his source Revue Celtique xii 98, xxi 156, xxii 61). MacCulloch suggests that the practice gave rise to the myths of mythological personages or divinities using the method, and of beings with one eye, one arm and one leg. It seems equally likely to me that it worked the other way though, with the draoi using the posture in imitation of the god Lugh who used it in the 2nd Battle of Magh Tured against the Fomoirí themselves. Lugh may have used it in imitation himself as a means of appropriating the might of the Fomoirí and turning it against them. The motif is repeated fractally in the story since Lugh is himself half Fomoirí and the grandson of Balor of the (single!) Baleful eye, so the combat in which Lugh kills Balor is blood turning against itself, and the manner in which Balor is killed (Lugh strikes him in the eye with a slingstone, bringing it out the back of his head and turning its magic against the Fomoirí. who are killed in great numbers) also suggests a weapon turned against its wielder. But that just brings us back to the original question of why the Fomoirí are represented as one eyed, one armed, one legged in the first place, and for that I have no answer.