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Puna (mythology)

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Vahi-vero goes by way of the pool to the place where Puna guards the girl in a house with round ends, and leaves her sister Huarehu in her place, taking Tahiti-tokerau away with him. Tahiti-tokerau bears him the boy Rata. Puna comes in
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daily emerges. Kui teaches him how to lie in wait and seize her, and never let her go until she says his name. Having mastered her, he finds that Puna, king of Vavau, is his rival.
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form for vengeance and kills Vahi-vero before taking his wife back. He turns her eyes into lights for her sister to make
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but long since swallowed in the sea." The bird Matatata‘ota‘o bites off the
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belonging to the Puna, king of Hiti-marama, "an island north of
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Other sources describe Puna as 'king of the underworld'. See
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single source
talk page
improve this article
introducing citations to additional sources
"Puna" mythology
news
newspapers
books
scholar
JSTOR
Polynesian narrative
Tuamotus
Hiti-marama
Vavaʻu
Vahieroa
Matamata-taua
Tahiti To‘erau
Rata's
fishing
bird
Pitcairn
Elizabeth
chief
Vahi-vero
Kui
demigod
Hawaiki
goblin
Rima-roa

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