La construcción imaginaria del mal

Abstract

This essay analyzes the transformation of the social imaginary in several symbolic languages. It gives examples of how the idea of "evil" is constructed in the social imaginary in many cultures with multiples names and how they use symbols that depends in each particular characteristic of the culture. The Genii in the ancient roman religion, the devil in the Illustration, the Assures in India, Dionysius of Zagreo in Greece, Satan among the Christians, Jinni in the Islamic mythology and Bear East, and Tezcatlipoca, God of the nocturnal sky, in México