YIMANTUWINGYAI

[Native American] A culture hero of the Hupa (California) and the one who established world order. He was the leader of the beings (the Kihunai) who inhabited the world before the Hupa. He combined trickiness and eroticism with heroic qualities. His name means something like "The One Lost [to us] Across [the ocean]". He is also known as "Old Man Over Across".