tedglart
Does anyone have any ideas about the face on the Devil's stomach and especially about the eyes on his knees? The sticking-out tongue, I suppose, resembles a penis protruding from the vagina-like open mouth. So a sign of disrespect? Or simple coarseness? But even that seems odd when he has his hand raised in friendly greeting. Why advertise his disrespect when he wants to draw us in? Though I suppose the card is full of bisexual mixed messages. The face on the stomach makes him "two-faced" or duplicitous, and someone with his "eyes in his belly" suffers from greed. But what does it mean to have eyes on/in your knees? Eyes don't fold like knees, so do they force him to walk with straight legs and thus prevent him from kneeling to pray. So something about refusing to show reverence, maybe. Or is there a French verbal pun lurking somewhere in this arrangement that I wouldn't know about?