La Corposfera divina: La Trinidad trifacial y tricorporal. Contribución a una TeoSemiótica

The present essay analyzes the trifacial and tricorporeal representations of the Christian Trinity, with emphasis on those made in the Pictorial School of Cuzco. From a semiotic perspective, and within the framework of what has been called the “Corposphere”, the essay concentrates on bodily representations as expressions of beliefs that, according to their historical and religious contexts, are sometimes accepted and sometimes rejected by the Catholic Church itself. In addition, the essay points out how these pictorial devices seek to solve the logical contradictions implied by the visual representation of the dogma of the Trinity, as well as the semiotic problem of the “the semiotic vacuum”. Finally, on the basis of such analysis, the essay proposes some general guidelines for a branch of the discipline called “Theo-Semiotics”, meant to account for the multiple ways in which the divinity manifests itself, through its discourses, mythologies and ritualizations, its actors, spaces and times.