"The ritual of Corpus Christi was celebrated to replace the Inca celebration of the solar deity...at the summer solstice. Incan nobility participated in the procession of the new Christian rite wearing traditional costume that included a solar disk....Yet in creating this substitution via subordination, the Christian rite of Corpus Christi preserved the pre-Christian meaning."

Morgan, David. The Sacred Gaze: Religious Visual Culture in Theory and Practice. Berkley: University of California Press, 2005.

In this passage, Morgan discusses how during iconoclasm, religious icons are not necessarily destroyed, but often repurposed. However, in spite of the attempts to remove their original meaning, their underlying connatations remain; thus, the Sun Disk continues, to the Incans, to have its meaning while appearing Christian, which gives some credence to Chidester's theory of plasticity.