Blind in Latin is "caecus" and in Old Irish "caech" means "one-eyed" and in Spanish is "tuerto". It is strange that in English there is no word for "one-eyed". One goal of Pandora WordBox is to enhance our vision - most of us are caech and can gain vision by knowing of how others think.

In medicine, blindness is called "Amaurosis", as if to stress "Darkness". The same idea is in "Mauritania", "Moor" and "Mulberry" (in Spanish "Moro", "Mora").

"Cecum" and "Celiac" point to the "blind" intestine (the start of the large bowel which includes the appendix - blind pouches tend to become infected and appendicitis in times passed killed scores of otherwise healthy people).

The importance of the notion "blind of one eye" or "Tuerto" in Spanish is that it points toward "Tort - Torture and Contort". In Latin "Tuerto" is "Lusculus" as described below. One common cause of monocular vision is a deviated eye or "squint" which is akin of one eye being "contorted" or "twisted".

A "Mole" (In Spanish "Topo" or BORGNE in French) is a nearly blind animal. "Topo" leads to "Topar" and "Tropiezo" which denote "Stumble". An extension of these ideas have to do with "Topic".

Perhaps a leap toward "topical" education is justified since it may "blunt" or "blind" the mind, or perhaps provide a "monocular" or "a single view" of the Universe. "Tuerto" or "Lusculus" for "Blind of one eye" links with "Lusor, Lucis" for "Blunder" "Deceit" and lack of light or lucidity thus with "Hallucination". Perhaps the ancients already realized that "topical" education represents a type of mental damage or "tort".

Partial blindness and color blindness are called "Meropia" and "Deuteropia". Mero and deutero denote "lacking" and "partial lack", as in "Deuterium" (lacking electrons). "Meromelia" denotes maldevelopment of limb segments.

Blind bards linked people with their myths, poetry, music and history. Western European civilization shares ideas found in Oedipus, Plutus, Orion, Tiresias, and Phineus. In the case of Plutus, the dispenser of Fortunes, he was blinded by Zeus to enhance justice. Hera blinded Tiresias for suggesting that women enjoyed sex more than men. Zeus granted Tiresias the gifts of prophecy, one of the subjects in "Oedipus Rex". Homer speaks of Polyphemus, a giant cyclops (single round eye) who was blinded by Odysseus. In the Russian empire, roving blind Bards were musicians, poets and oral historians. With the advent of the USSR they disappeared soon after Stalin called for a Bard convention. Many historians believe that Stalin liquidated Bards to minimize resistance to an impending state planned famine to be imposed on Ukraine where resistance to collectivization of land was growing. The state planned famine claimed over 10 million victims.

Wormwood in Ukrainian is called Chornobyl (Russified to Chernobyl). Chornobyl is now etched in all idioms as a symbol of the bitter consequences caused by a massive nuclear plant explosion. In this instance, Plutus showered humanity with Plutonium, a misfortune that did not deter "blunt" and "blundering" efforts by the nuclear power industry to make efforts to "blind" public opinion. In any case, many continue to hold the view that using nuclear power is the "silliest and most dangerous way of boiling water".