Ano, the Coyote, is the trickster animal-person of Luiseno and Acjachemen narrative, best known for his part in the death of Wiyot. When the first captain died and his body was laid upon the first funeral pyre, Coyote, who had been sent away or held back, leapt over the heads of the assembled mourners into the flames, tore out the heart, and devoured it. The episode is central to the mythology of death and cremation, and is cited as the origin of the ritual watchfulness kept over a burning body. In wider narrative Coyote is the familiar ambivalent trickster, cunning and greedy, distinguished in the texts from Wiyot and the ordering deities.