Pas-taai is held every two years, and the celebration is carried out by representatives from communities from north and the south. The proceedings involve three stages. At the first stage, knots of silver grass will be tied on a long string to mark the total number of days in which Pas-taai takes place, and a committee of chiefs will be held. The second stage of Pas-taai, being the body of the festival, involves resolution of disputes, acknowledging the ancestors, sets of dancing addressing to the advent and departure of the spirit of Short People, and finally a thanksgiving banquet. The Pas-taai celebration ends with the seeing of Short People’s spirits on the eastward stream. The festive and ceremonial proceedings unify community-tribes on both sides by binding everybody’s fate together in a single rite shared by all Saysiyat people. Pas-taai consummates a symbolic unification of the Saysiyat society across the boundaries of bloodlines and tribe borders.
矮靈祭每兩年舉行一次,分南北祭團同時舉行,大致可分為祭前、祭典和祭後三階段,祭前為結芒草約期、長老會議,祭典包含告解調解、告祖、迎靈、薦矮靈、靈至之舞、本舞、催歸之舞、遣歸之舞與送靈、酬謝之宴,祭後則是要將矮靈們送往東方的河流上,矮靈祭便完整落幕。藉由南北兩祭團儀式的安排及儀式過程的福禍相依,將儀式結合成一個整體,進而強調pas-taai是賽夏族人共有的儀式,超越血緣與地緣的劃分,完成賽夏族社會象徵性的整合。
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