Paraíso y trascendencia en la cosmología zoroástrica: Garodemana como símbolo estructural de perfección, alienación y retorno
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Zoroastrismo, Paraíso, Cosmología iraniana, Garodemana, Avesta, Mitocrítica, Símbolo religioso, Trascendencia, Escatología, Alienación humana.Resumen
El presente artículo examina el mitema del paraíso en la cosmología zoroástrica a través de un análisis de sus manifestaciones en el Avesta, los textos pahlavi (especialmente el Arda Viraf Nāmag y el Bundahishn) y la literatura secundaria especializada. Se argumenta que Garodemana (la Casa de Alabanza), junto con sus variantes conceptuales (Humata, Hukhta, Hvarsta), constituye no meramente una representación geográfico-celestial, sino un complejo simbólico dinámico que articula la experiencia de exilio ontológico de la humanidad y su posibilidad de retorno mediante la práctica de las Tres Buenas Acciones (Humata, Hukhta, Hvarsta: Buen Pensamiento, Buena Palabra, Buena Obra). Frente a interpretaciones que reducen el paraíso zoroástrico a un simple reflejo del Cielo judeo-cristiano, este trabajo muestra que posee una estructura propia de extraordinaria sofisticación: es tanto manifestación del poder creador (ahūriš daēnā—la Ley eterna de Ahura Mazda) como experiencia vivida de alienación y redención cósmica en el combate
escatológico contra Angra Mainyu (el Espíritu Destructivo). El análisis comparativo con mitemas paralelos en tradiciones indo-iranias, neoplatónicas y abrahámicas revela convergencias y divergencias significativas que enriquecen la comprensión de cómo las culturas ancestrales articulaban el tránsito entre lo contingente y lo absoluto, lo corruptible y la perfección imperecedera.
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