There seems to be a certain contemporary relevance to these images, despite their ancient Indo-European provenance. Black playwright August Wilson, in his 2003 play Gem of the Ocean, set in Pittsburgh's in 1904, features a tyrannical black constable (Caesar Wilks) with one good eye (the other damaged in a prison brawl, earlier in life when he was a thug)who rules through intimidation, juxtaposed with a freedom fighter (Solly Two Kings) who has one good arm (the other was mangled by bloodhounds when he was escaping from slavery). The figures don't quite match up with the myths as well as the figures from True Grit do, but the general idea is there.