Wohpekumeu is the foremost culture-hero and trickster of Yurok narrative, one of the woge, the immortal spirit-people who inhabited the lower Klamath before human beings. His name is understood as 'the widower from across the ocean.' He is credited with shaping the conditions of human life: he loosed the salmon and the acorns, established many of the arrangements by which people live, and figures in the coming of death. He is at once a benefactor and an insatiable seducer whose appetites drive much of his cycle, and in the end, thwarted, he withdraws westward across the ocean. Sources differ on how far he is a creator as against a transformer of a world already in being.