About the product:

🪨 Mineral Type: Agate 'Eye of Shiva' or 'Cyclops Eye'

🌍 ⛏️ Origin: India

📐 Dimensions: 24 millimeters high x 15 wide x 15 high or 23 millimeters high x 15 wide x 15 high

⚖️ Weight : 6 or 7 grams

✨ Finish: Polished

🔬 Treatment: None

• 🎁 Comes with a Gem and Zen certificate, ideal for giving as a gift or treating yourself!

Bonus 'Short stories for 'a great mineral':

Cyclops Eye Agate is a stone that naturally attracts legends and stories due to its mysterious appearance—a unique circular “eye” that seems to be watching us. While it is not a stone directly derived from ancient mythology like some other gems, its name and appearance have inspired several modern stories, folk beliefs , and mystical tales . Here are some stories and legends surrounding this stone:

🌋 1. The Malagasy legend of the Eye of the Volcano

Origin: Madagascar

In parts of Madagascar, where the majority of cyclops eye agates come from, an ancient legend tells of an ancient volcano guarding the spirit of a giant cyclops , who watched over sacred lands. As it breathed its last, the volcano is said to have "cried" a stone eye—a symbol of protection and eternal vigilance. This "stone tear" was reportedly found as a circular agate, with a perfect eye motif.

👉 It is said that wearing this stone means being under the guard of the giant , who protects against invisible enemies and betrayals.

🧿 2. The All-Seeing Eye Talisman

Origin: Modern esotericism

In contemporary Western esotericism, some practitioners nickname this stone "the eye of the Ancients" or "the eye that sees beyond" . According to these beliefs, each cyclops eye agate would be linked to an ancient spirit or a higher consciousness , capable of seeing beyond the visible , including dreams, hidden intentions and thoughts.

🔮 Psychics would sometimes use it to:

divination (by meditating on the eye),

psychic protection (against entities or manipulations),

or to open the third eye in spiritual rituals.

🛡️ 3. The Silent Warrior Stone

Origin: Inspired fiction

Some modern storytellers create fables inspired by this stone. One tells of a blind warrior , in a distant era, who was given an agate stone with a magical eye embedded in it. Although he could no longer see the world, the "eye of the stone" allowed him to perceive the presences around him, intentions, and even to see lies. He became a legend under the name "the Silent Eye," and his stone was passed on to those who sought justice and truth.

💭 4. Modern and spiritual symbolism

The name "Cyclops Eye" directly evokes Greek mythology , where the Cyclopes are giants with a single eye in the middle of their foreheads. Some see in this stone a connection to the third eye (frontal chakra or Ajna), a symbol of clairvoyance, lucidity and intuition.

📜 Mineralogical sheet:

Characteristic	Details

Name	Cyclops Eye Agate

Other names / Variants

Eye Agate, Cyclops Agate

Color

Brown, beige, red, sometimes with concentric light and dark circles, “eye” effect

Chemical composition

SiO₂ (silicon dioxide – microcrystalline quartz)

Crystal system

Trigonal

Hardness (Mohs)

6.5 – 7

Main source

Brazil, Uruguay, India, Madagascar

Virtues / properties

Protection, courage, inner strength, grounding, wards off negative energies, promotes self-confidence

Astrological sign

Aries, Taurus, Leo

Purification

Distilled water, fumigation

Recharging

Soft sun, moonlight

Short story

Named for its concentric pattern reminiscent of a single eye; used as a stone of protection and strength since Antiquity, highly valued in lithotherapy and jewelry