Ancestors beneath the stones Like the Puyuma, the Rukai buried deceased family members under their houses. Their reasoning was that "family members are not animals, so why should they be buried out in the fields where they will suffer from the wind and rain?" explains Auvini.
魯凱和排灣族一樣都是行室內葬，顧名思義就是把死人埋在石板屋底下，他們傳統的觀念認為，「自己的祖先又不是動物，為什麼要葬在野外，任其受風霜之苦」，歐威尼解釋。