Abstract

In this essay it is studied the topic of «maná» in three autos by Calderón, although we focus mainly in La piel de Gedeón, as this is the text in which the topic we mention is better structured and organised. We take into account its artistic relevance in a detailed analysis of the six axes of the perspective from which the topic is poetically and dramatically observed, giving way, at the same time, to two holy realities: the incarnation of Jesus Christ and the conception of the Virgin. Both of them symbolized in that dew-manna of Gedeón, who is a historical prefiguration of the Holy Spirit inside the fleece.