In Polynesian mythology, the Ponaturi are a group of spirits who killed Hema. In revenge, they were locked in a house by Hema's wife, Urutonga, and their sons, Tawhaki and Karihi, until the sun came up. The doors were flung open and the Ponaturi died at contact with sunlight.
... of the first book, De imitatione Christi
et contemptu omnium vanitatum mundi. It consists
of four books and seems to have been written in
meter and rime, a fact ...