Blood and rain are essential to Kavalan society. Blood (consanguinity,menstruation,placenta), in particular,is an instrument of power;power ”talks”through it. This is not only a fact belonging to the past. Indeed,since the launch of their own”rectification of names”monvement two decades ago,the Kavalan,who live in defferent locales around Taiwan,have started to exhume the culture and rituals of their past.