A is for Ahoggyá

The Ahoggyá are one of Tékumel's intelligent non-human races. It is a squat creature with four legs and four arms spaced around a roughly cylindrical body with a carapace on top. There is no head as such, rather there are four sets of eyes that are spaced around the body between each set of arms and legs. Below each pair of eyes are it's other features - one each of mouth, "ears", "nose" and reproductive organs. The latter three just look like nobbly bits. It doesn't really have a front though I usually take the eyes with the mouth to be forward. Ahoggyá are generally considered brutish and rude - hell, they ARE brutish and rude. Human notions of polite behaviour and manners are lost on an Ahoggyá.