Le-hev-hev is the devouring guardian who sits at the threshold of the land of the dead. On the road every ghost must travel, she waits beside a completed geometrical figure, the labyrinth called the path; as the newcomer approaches she rubs out one half of it. The ghost must at once restore the missing half by tracing the correct line. One who learned the design in life, and for whom the proper sacrifices were made, passes on to the dead; one who cannot complete it is seized and devoured, and never arrives. Layard makes her the centre of the maze-dances and labyrinth ritual of Malekula, and reads her, with the ogress Nevinbumbaau, as a face of the devouring female. Deacon records the same guardian and test under a district name in the Seniang, so that the two accounts describe one figure known across the island under differing names.