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Abya Yala (Inca’s South America)

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image by António Martins, 12 Feb 2000

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Continental flag

The Continental flag (used by the native peoples to represent Latin America (Awyayala, in Quechua): plain white.
Jaume Ollé, 1997

In Kara Chukiwanka’s article [qch9X] this flag pair is presented as «Janq’u Wip’ala», or white flag, one of the three flags of the Wiñaymarka culture. This is a flag pair, consisting of a square white flag and another flag. No explicit reference to the flag pair duality, apart from the illustration showing both flags (plain and two-triangle). No indication about its (modern?) use as the flag of Awya Yala (=South America).
António Martins, 03 Jun 2008

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Its pair flag

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Chakana with bicolor disc

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image by António Martins, 22 Dec 2006

The continental flag also is has a pair. It is white (?) with a zig-zag cross with a central disc of two-colors (I only have a black and white image). This symbol is named chakana and the disc represents the day and the night.
Jaume Ollé, 1997

Flag with a white chakana (outlined in black) on white background, which makes a poor design.
António Martins, 22 Dec 2006

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Red chakana

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image by António Martins, 01 Dec 2006

In this online 2005 photo (context), is also shown, but painted/pasted on a ribbon banner instead of held as a regular flag, the white square flag with large red chakana pierced with a black and white disc.
António Martins, 24 Nov 2006

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Chakana in 7×7 pattern

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image by António Martins, 05 Feb 2007

This flag can be seen in use, along with a Qullasuyu flag (white diagonal), as a lecture table cloth in a photo on line (context). Note that on this photo the hoist of the flags used for table draping is facing down: The pattern for the chakana and its placement on the flag is based on the 7×7 square suyu flag design, which is yet another way to draw and place the chakana.
António Martins, 04 Feb 2007

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Two triangles

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image by António Martins, 03 Jun 2008

In Kara Chukiwanka’s article [qch9X] this flag pair is presented as «Janq’u Wip’ala», or white flag, one of the three flags of the Wiñaymarka culture. This is a flag pair, consisting of a square white flag and a square white flag with two small triangles, yellow and red, joint in a figure of eight. According to Kara Chukiwanka’s article article [qch9X], this «signo bitriángulo de color amarillo y rojo »(…)« en base a las cuatro divisiones del Pusisuyu».
António Martins, 03 Jun 2008

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