十月-新年祭
October-Festival of New Year
以古法的自製陶鍋烹煮新粟,以製糯食及釀酒之用。象徵過去一年之結束,也是迎接(An-pasdu)新年之來臨。祝賀粟穀的收成和舊歲之更新,並兼具祭拜祖先之祭典。祭日家家戶戶之作麻糬Inaliv,釀酒Kadavus,家族耆老或家長以獸骨祭祀祖靈Mapatvis。旨意感謝祖靈在過去一年之庇佑,使今年五穀豐收,家人平安、健康。祈求天神繼續保佑家族明年更加興旺,獵物豐盛,五穀豐收,族人平安,部落強盛。祭畢,每人發給小麻糬食用。象徵族人年如麻糬般地團結在一起,之後開宴飲酒並歡唱通宵達旦。
Use hand- made and old style buckpot to cook new crop of millet, then use the cook thoroughly millet to make food and wine. This festival is symbolize this year has already gone and welcome the new year is coming. It’s also a festival to celebrate the harvest of millet and ring out of the Old and ring in the New. It’s even the time of sacrifices to the ancestor deities. When the day of the ceremony comes, each and every family will make rice cake and wine, the elder or the head of family will offer sacrifices to the ancestors with animal bones. The purpose is to thank the ancestors’ blessing in the whole year, the harvest and the whole family stays in safe and healthy. They will pray the god for the family’s prosperity, many animals prey to the hunters, have big harvest, clansmen stay in safe and the tribe is powerful and prosperous. After the ceremony, they will give everyone rice cake to eat. It symbolizes the clansmen are as united as the rice cake. Then, they will have a banquet and drink and sing all night.
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