本文探討蘭嶼雅美族之始祖遷移記憶的典範論述構成，透過分析雅美地詩記憶中所口傳的各種遷移記號，嘗試以移民社會的族群互動觀點，來重新檢視異人幽魂所隱含的微言大義。本文指出始祖遷移記憶，是雅美人將過去事件遙遠化以及地景化的重要符碼化過程。遷移典範藉由身體與土地的占卜模擬，來瞭解其轉變雅美緣運的徵兆，並提供多元社會一系統的象徵磋商機制，以達成實質上的共議共識。始祖遷移記憶一如其衍生不同層次的模擬，諸如家屋遷移、甚至到名字遷移，都旨在召喚過去記憶中不時浮現的記號，以整合當代族人創新的與守舊間的行動。
The memory of Yami ancestral migration is a discourse paradigm. In the analysis of topogenic signs, the lehleh memory signifies the hidden pasts of between-group negotiation in Lanyu. Place remembering becomes a signifcatory process to transform past events into landscape monuments, which invite manipulating lag and ngilin in order to shape cosmic fate, as well as collectively divining interpretation on body and landscape. The mimicry of such a fate-integrating model can further apply to house founders and different renaming processes.
