Rabie is the maiden of the Wemale moon-and-death myth, a mortal-born figure who becomes a celestial dema. The Sun Tuwale desired her, but when he came for her, her people tried to deceive him with a pig; in his anger the Sun drew Rabie down into the earth. Her family seized her by the hair to hold her back, yet she slipped from them and sank away below, and thereafter rose into the sky as the moon, whose waxing and waning mirror her passage between death and return. Like Hainuwele, Rabie is a slain maiden whose loss establishes a permanent feature of the human world; hers grounds mortality and the moon, and her tale stands beside the Hainuwele cycle as the second great origin-of-death myth of West Seram.