So a message was sent up to them that henceforth no man should be permitted to return to earth from the place of darkness.

In the age of the heroes not only the realms below but the realms above could be reached by the daring.

Hear the tale of Tawhaki, the Maori Endymion! When young he became famous by many feats, among others, by destroying the submarine stronghold of a race of sea-folk who had carried off his mother.

Into their abode he let a flood of sunshine, and they, being children of the darkness, withered and died in the light.

The fame of Tawhaki rose to the skies, and one of the daughters of heaven stole down to behold him at night, vanishing away at dawn.