It is assumed that these people are being punched in the eye as that is commonly how people get black eyes. Another theory is that they are having a substance injected into their eye that creates "Vril consciousness" via a Vril proboscis. It sounds outlandish until you realize that a five day festival to honor Vril called the Vril-ya Bazaar and Fete was held at the Royal Albert Hall in 1891.
Its centerpiece was an obelisk called Cleopatra's Needle, which came from Ancient Egypt and of which two exist in the world. One is in London and the other is in New York City. I thought that obelisks represented Nimrod's penis, but there could be a connection between Nimrod and Vril, with Vril's appendage being on its head. The word, Vril, is Sumerian for godlike.
Maybe the phallic mask that Alex DeLarge wore in A Clockwork Orange is also a reference to this, and the long eyelashes he wore on one eye are the theatrical version of a black eye. There is also a scene where one of his "droogs" gets a black eye.
The 1978 version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers may be a reference to this as well. In that version, people are being bodysnatched when they visit a bath house where mud baths are offered. This could be a reference to the Mayan goddess, Ixchel, who inhabited a bath house, and had a lizard-like creature on her head with an appendage sticking out. She was also the goddess of midwifery and making children, which could be a reference to the way that bodysnatched people were essentially being reborn out of pods in the movie. Whatever Ixchel is holding appears to resemble one of these pods more than a baby. And "Vril consciousness" is essentially the same as being bodysnatched in my opinion. These are just theories. Let me know what you think.
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