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【Alikakay--Alikakay
story】 |
We
live in Jiali Village, which is right at the
foot of Meilun Mt. The
origin of Amis harvest festival that passes down
from the old generation .
[Alikakay
tale]
Illustrated by: Chian-chian Hsu, Wei-jun Liu, Yen-ting Wu.
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【Long】
long ago, the tall monsters who are good at
camouflage and wizardry have come down from
Meilun Mt., they call themselves as "Alikakay."
Alikakay have strange appearances: cat’s eye
like eyeball, white skin, long hair which has
spreaded to the navel, thick hand and toe
feather, they are idle all day long and
scattered in Meilun Mt.
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【Since】
the arrival of Alikakay, series of tragedies
happened to the always peaceful Amis: the
infants have been eaten, the stuff were stolen,
and the crops were damaged, and fires broke out
without reasons, someone pretended as the
husband to rape the wife, etc. Later the
tribespeople found out that all the evil things
are done by "Alikakay." |
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【Then】a
chief called Marang has summoned all the youth
of Amis and he divided the troop into southern
and northern part to siege "Alikakay." But the
crusade against "Alikakay" did not go on
smoothly, the tribespeople met great casualties,
while "Alikakay" was not hurt at all. |
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【One
day】
Marang chief was sleeping, he dreamed that the
Nereus Kafit has appeared from the sea, Kafit
told Marang: "Alikakay" were not human beings;
they were monsters and cannot be killed by human
weapon! They must make alfa to porong to shoot "Alikakay"
if they want to completely destroy them. |
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【And
then】,
the chief Marang made porong according to the
Nereus' word, and worshipped him before the
campaign, they offered sacrifice to their
ancestors to the south, and offer sacrifice to
the numen Malatao and then he took his army to
fight against monster "Alikakay." |
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【When
Alikakay】
saw that the Marang had brough along poron,
they fell on knees and asked for
forgiveness, Marang is very kind, and did not
kill
"Alikakay" and he said that:"you may go, but
please do not come back."
To
express their thanks to Marang, "Alikakay" said
that, "thanks for your mercy, to compensate your
kindness, each year please come to the seaside
or riverside to offer us pinang, drinking, three
pieces of glutinous rice cakes and porong on
today, we may bless that you may have millet
harvest each year, and you could also have a
good harvest of fish and shrimp." |
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【From】
then on, "Alikakay" does not show up in the
tribe, each year a great deal of fish and
shrimps may come to the river or sea for the
Amis to catch since June of every year, they
also have a big harvest of crops. This is the
reason that the Amis may hold harvest festival
and catch fish each year since June. |
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