ABSTRACT
Throughout the ages, human bodily members have played significant roles in people cosmological and magical belief systems and daily lives. Of the human magic bodily members, the eye and the hand have been among the most widely spread motifs to disclose opposing power. As an omnipotent and all-seeing power, the image of the human eye has been regarded in many archaic cultures as an archetypal representation of deity as well as of the entire cosmos. The eye has magical power that is simultaneously connected to psychological, natural, and cosmological spheres. The hand is a symbol of strength and power, and a picture of it has been regarded as a representation of God, or the Invisible Hand. In the literature of contemporary interactive computer software, one finds the healing hand and Holy Vision of the Paladin and the powerful and all-seeing Eye of Kilrogg among other features related to bodily members, whether attached to or detached from the body.
