Puentes Cosmológicos y Religión Comparada

In this paper I propose to undertake a brief comparative analysis between currentcosmology of the Argentine Chaco Toba people and Eastern religious traditions such as the  Yoga of India. My analysis includes native drawings about the "Cosmic Tree", and the  notions of force, energy, consciousness, health and illness. In this regard, the work of  Mircea Eliade bridges the gap, and allows a dialogue between these two disparate cultural  horizons. Both seem to share common "structural" features as well as remote historical  connections. The religious and cosmological imaginery of Yoga appears as useful in  providing new images and metaphors to assess Toba shamanism and world view vis-a-vis  the classic ethnographic literature of the area. To sum up, this intercultural exploration aims  at finding structural and ontological analogies that can enrich the theoretical and empirical background of phenomena little known in the Argentine religious geography.