Among all the organs of the body, the eye is especially linked with the divine by its ability to capture light. In the age of the great myths of solar worship, the eye was considered a microcosmic equivalent of the sun and the gaze a radiant center with numinous properties. To intensify the numinous and irrational character of the eye, it shows itself in an "extraordinary and fascinating way", escaping the "anatomical orbit".

This symbolic eye appears either displaced, or diminished, that is to say reduced to one, or enlarged, increasing its appearance between three and up to a thousand. The eyes can also appear independently of the body, it is then when it leaves its "literal and physiological place to become a symbol", according to Juan Eduardo Cirlot (1916-1973) in a short treatise on the symbolism of the eye.

Following mystical traditions, I identify this visual organ with the cordial eye, which moves from the face to the depths of the heart. This eye, which has plunged into the depths of the body, has to rise again, Frithjof Schuon tells us, "like the sun rising, towards the forehead to illuminate the individual darkening". The symbolic associations between the eye and the primordial solar cults prevail and extend to the heart. "The eye is the sun of the body, the heart is the sun of the soul, and the sun is both the eye and the heart of the sky."