Andeans becoming birds

In traditional Andean ritual contexts, rural kin-bound humans dance as particular birds and dance bird roles in myths; dancers experience becoming these birds:  the "choique" lineage of Mapuche dance the "choique" bird's lifecycle; herding communities around the cordillera La Viuda dance as "kiuyos" do.  In Pasco's "Mama Rayhuana" saga, dancers enact comic birds helping humans invent horticulture. In inverted versions of a widespread danced myth, a bird flock hatches an egg from which a human hero emerges OR bereft humans create an egg to resurrect a savior bird.  Ritual bird dances once confined to micro-regions have been progressively appropriated for public performance by troupes uniformly costumed to reference one bird.