229 (→ 366 - 137). So the Forgetful (Manasseh) was presumably a name given to him because he had forgotten the strict rules of his monotheistic ancestors (although the rules had been written in stone, on a pair of stone tablets).
... For they say that the course of human life resembles the letter Y, because every one of men, when he has reached the threshold of early youth, and has arrived at the place 'where the way divides itself into two parts', is in doubt, and hesitates, and does not know to which side he should rather turn himself´... As a kind of proof Manasseh was buried in his own garden instead of in the traditionalal way in the City of David. ... When the man, Ulu, returned to his wife from his visit to the temple at Puueo, he said, 'I have heard the voice of the noble Mo'o, and he has told me that tonight, as soon as darkness draws over the sea and the fires of the volcano goddess, Pele, light the clouds over the crater of Mount Kilauea, the black cloth will cover my head. And when the breath has gone from my body and my spirit has departed to the realms of the dead, you are to bury my head carefully near our spring of running water. Plant my heart and entrails near the door of the house. My feet, legs, and arms, hide in the same manner. Then lie down upon the couch where the two of us have reposed so often, listen carefully throughout the night, and do not go forth before the sun has reddened the morning sky. If, in the silence of the night, you should hear noises as of falling leaves and flowers, and afterward as of heavy fruit dropping to the ground, you will know that my prayer has been granted: the life of our little boy will be saved.' And having said that, Ulu fell on his face and died ... According to the list in The White Goddess compared to the rongorongo text on the G tablet we can indeed deduce that Manasseh was given land corresponding to half the norm, i.e. to half 28 = 14 days, and we can therefore update the list from The White Goddess (the Moon) accordingly:
The 'land' (half-month) of Manasseh stretched from September 2 to September 16:
Unless I have completely fooled myself we have now uncovered a correspondence between the leading stars - for instance the place where the tail of the Lion would disappear, where he would changed his sex
- and the dates in the Julian (Gregorian) calendar. ... When this tremendous task had been accomplished Atea took a third husband, Fa'a-hotu, Make Fruitful. Then occurred a curious event. Whether Atea had wearied of bringing forth offspring we are not told, but certain it is that Atea and her husband Fa'a-hotu exchanged sexes. Then the [male] eyes of Atea glanced down at those of his wife Hotu and they begat Ru. It was this Ru who explored the whole earth and divided it into north, south, east, and west ... Which remarkably seems to have been defined already at the time of the Old Testament. Which thus simultaneously in a way verifies both the list in The White Goddes and my way of reading these rongorongo texts.
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