Abstract
The paper deals with a comparison between the Trinity and its most outwardly similar counterpart outside Christianity, that is the Hindu model of trimurti (lit. “the three forms”). The common idea is one of divine nature as manifested in three personifications which don’t divide into parts and present themselves in mutually-supplementary relations. The most important difference emerges from the fact that Brachman, Vishnu and Siva are not personalities in the real sense, but only cosmic functions of the “anonymous” Absolute. This gives an opportunity to draw the Hindu model together with a wide range of heterodox triads beginning with the three “masks” of Sabellius (3rd century A.D.) and early antitrinitarians.
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