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Tonapa
Tonapa AmericaOr Conapa, ‘heat-bearing’. One of the divine assistants of Viracocha, the creator deity of ancient Peru. He may have been bound and set adrift upon Lake Titicaca as a punishment for rebellion against Viracocha. Tonapa's symbol, a cross, and his iconoclasm led early missionaries to associate him with Christianity.
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