Muse (Moses) is the supreme prophet and lawgiver of Beta Israel, through whom the Orit (the Octateuch, the tradition's core scripture) is given. He is the protagonist of the Mota Muse, the Geez 'Death of Moses' recited by Beta Israel at funerals. In it, Moses is told the day but not the date of his death and is troubled at leaving his family; God reassures him through the parable of the worm nourished in the stone. Granted leave to bid farewell to his mother, wife and children, Moses meets the angels who prepare his grave, and the angel Suriel comes to take his soul. The narrative shows signs of an Arabic source and is generally dated to the fourteenth or fifteenth century.