I would like to extend my special thanks and sincerest gratitude to the following institutions, publishers, esteemed authors and others who helped me during the composition of this monograph.
I am indebted to Academia Sinica (中央研究院-Taipei) for granting copyright permissions to republish lengthy excerpts from 1. Liu, B. X. (1981). The Legend of the Ancestors of the Yami Iratay Tribe; 2. Hsu, S. C. (1956). The Origin of Man in the Legends of The Formosan Tribes; 3. Li, P. (1975). Rukai Texts; and 4. Zhan, S. J. (1995). The Origin, Distribution and Migration of the Kavalan Tribe in the Yilan Plain. In Pan Yinghai and Zhan Sujuan (Eds.), Pingpu Research Papers.
My appreciation is extended to SMC Publishing Inc. (南天書局-Taipei) for granting copyright permissions to republish lengthy excerpts from 1. Benedek, D. (1991). The Songs of the Ancestors, A Comparative Study of Bashiic Folklore; and 2. Shimizu, J. (1998). Kvalan Myths and Traditions as Recorded in the Original Language.
My thanks go to Fang, Chun-wei (方鈞瑋) for granting copyright permissions to republish lengthy excerpts from his inspirational 2016 PhD Dissertation Transforming Tradition in Eastern Taiwan: Bunun Incorporation of Christianity in their Spirit Relationships.
My deepest gratitude to Kwang Ok Kim (김광억) for granting copyright permission to republish lengthy excerpts from his 1980 PhD Dissertation “The Taruko and their Belief System.”
Also, thanks to my two fantastic research assistants Elle Chen (陳采詩) and Julia Deng (鄧芊柔) for their help in obtaining source texts and copyright permissions to republish some of the aforementioned texts.