Ga-gorib, 'the thrower down', sat at the edge of a deep pit and dared all who passed to throw stones at him; each stone rebounded and struck the thrower dead, and the body fell into the pit. When Heitsi-eibib came he refused the dare, drew the monster's eyes aside, and hurled a stone that caught him beneath the ear, so that Ga-gorib tumbled into his own pit. In another telling the two chased one another around the pit until Heitsi-eibib himself slipped in, escaped, and after a long struggle threw the monster down at last. His destruction is the chief victory credited to the hunter-hero, and the felling blow beneath the ear so closely echoes the stroke with which Tsui-ǁgoab felled ǁGaunab that some scholars have read the two combats as one myth in different dress.