 The sounds of drums and flutes accompany the dance.These dances that pit Christian against Moor are almost certainly Christianized versions of earlier, pre-Cortez dances that ritualized the battle between the tiger and the eagle.Similar to the Moor-Christian confrontation of the "morisca"—whether in Spain or in transplanted versions in Central America—there are also elaborate ritual dances in Mexico such as the "Danza de la Pluma" that exploit the trauma of the Spanish conquest of indigenous America.