Nocuma is the creator god of the coastal (Playano) Acjachemen tradition recorded by Boscana at Mission San Juan Capistrano, distinct from the Sky-and-Earth cosmogony of the inland Luiseno. An invisible and all-powerful being, he made the world, the sea and everything in them. The earth in its making was spherical and rested in his hands, but being in ceaseless motion he fixed it by setting at its centre a black rock called Tosaut, after which it stayed firm. He then formed the first man, Ejoni, out of the earth, and afterward the first woman, Ae. Boscana notes that the mountain (Serrano) people told a different creation, so that the two accounts he preserves diverge on the origin of the world and its first inhabitants.