Rodolfo Kusch belongs to that generation of Argentinean –and Latin American− thinkers who dared to deal philosophically with the problem of humanity from the perspective of our subcontinent's popular thinking. These pages propose a brief presentation of the philosophical recovery of the knowledge contained in popular religious symbols and the way they operate, concentrating in the analysis of two early works: América Profunda (Deep America) and El pensamiento indígena y popular en América (The Indigenous and Popular Thinking in America). In these works, Kusch develops a first approach to the popular religious symbol as production of a certain totality configuration, in other words, it is the configuration of a horizon of endness, where the possibilities of existence deploy and gather: the world, god and the man appear –in the mutual devotion of their “simple being” (“mero estar”)– as the so, the anger and the homelessness do.