Puna

Entered deity / male / immortal / mythic-prehistoric. ACCURACY NOTE: the prompt glossed Puna as 'the eel-lord of the deep', but the Tuamotuan sources firmly make Puna the SHARK-form king/sovereign of the lost sea-land Hiti-marama in the Rata/Vahi-vero cycle (the distinct eel of the Tuamotu cycles is Te Tuna, slain by Maui); Puna is authored accordingly. SOLITARY: his kin and the heroes he opposes (Kui, Vahi-vero, Tahiti-tokerau, Rata) are not authored figures in this batch, so no in-batch kin edge is asserted.

Domains

• kingship of the deep sea land
• sea and sharks

Powers

• reigns as sovereign of the deep-sea land Hiti-marama
• takes the form of a shark to enact vengeance

Sources

• Puna is the Tuamotuan king of Hiti-marama, a land of the deep 'long since swallowed in the sea', and the antagonist-sovereign of the Rata / Vahi-vero cycle: he abducts the water-nymph Tahiti-tokerau (wife of Vahi-vero), his demon-bird army seizes Rata's parents, and he comes in the form of a shark for vengeance.: Stimson, J. Frank. Tuamotuan Legends (Island of Anaa), Part I: The Demigods (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 148, 1937) (secondary); Beckwith, Martha Warren. Hawaiian Mythology (1940) (recounting the Tuamotuan Rata/Puna cycle) (secondary)