Coquena

Also called Coquena of the Puna.

A small man in white who drives vicuna herds through the Andean night and punishes anyone who kills them wantonly.

Tradition: Quechua mythology
Region: Atacama Desert (place of origin)
Trait family: The Ward-Holders

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Traits

Read from the figure's description, which a model wrote. Open "why" for the sentence a trait came from.

Behaviour

Forest guardian punishes poachers
why
He punishes those who try to harm the vicunas, and specifically those who destroy them wantonly.

Defensive powers

Guardianship
why
Coquena is the guardian of the vicuna in the Quechua folklore of the Puna de Atacama, and the descriptions agree with each other unusually closely: a little man, dressed in white clothes, moving large herds through the mountains at night.