Doing things twice (→ 2 * 161) will normally annull the effect of doing it once. ... I knew of two men who lived in another settlement on the Noatak river. They did not believe in the spirit of the string figures, but said they originated from two stars, agguk, which are visible only when the sun has returned after the winter night. One of these men was inside a dance-house when a flood of mist poured in ... His two companions rapidly made and unmade the figure 'Two Labrets', an action intended to drive away the spirit of the string figures, uttering the usual formula ... but the mist kept pouring in ... For instance, if you would turn around 180° and then would do it again you will be back at the beginning. Likewise will inverting a number twice, say 5, result in the same number 'returning' again; 1 / 5 = 0.2 and 1 / 0.2 = 5. And if the operation for using the points of an octahedron to generate the central points of the sides of a cube will be followed by the same kind of operation on the points of a cube it will 'return' the octahedron.
Maybe Manasseh was regarded as corresponding to the antediluvian constellation of the Serpent Carrier;
i.e. half at right and half to the left and twisted around in the center.
It seems reasonable to assume there was a time before the ecliptic plane rose up to become the central stage.
Viz. a time when the stars on the equator of the sky had defined time-space. E.g. Virgo, Orion, and Ophiuchus are still on the equator.
In July 6 AD 1908 the pentagram was completed and it therefore ought to here have 'returned':  We can compare the place of Venus in July 6 AD 1908 with that of July 8 AD 1900:
Ophiuchus was no longer present in the calendar, and only his 'ghost' remained: ... The divine names Bran, Saturn, Cronos ... are applied to the ghost of Hercules that floats off in the alder-wood boat after his midsummer sacrifice. His tanist, or other self, appearing in Greek legend as Poeas who lighted Hercules' pyre and inherited his arrows, succeeds him for the second half of the year; having acquired royal virtue by marriage with the queen, the representative of the White Goddess, and by eating some royal part of the dead man's body - heart, shoulder or thigh-flesh.
He is in turn succeeded by the New Year Hercules, a reincarnation of the murdered man, who beheads him and, apparently, eats his head. This alternate eucharistic sacrifice made royalty continous, each king in turn the Sun-god beloved of the reigning Moon-goddess. But when these cannibalistic rites were abandoned and the system was gradually modified until a single king reigned for a term of years, Saturn-Cronos-Bran became a mere Old Year ghost, permanently overthrown by Juppiter-Zeus-Belin though yearly conjured up for placation at the Saturnalia or Yule feast ... ... But in the fullness of time an obscure instinct led the eldest of them towards the anthill which had been occupied by the Nummo. He wore on his head a head-dress and to protect him from the sun, the wooden bowl he used for his food. He put his two feet into the opening of the anthill, that is of the earth's womb, and sank in slowly as if for a parturition a tergo. The whole of him thus entered into the earth, and his head itself disappeared. But he left on the ground, as evidence of his passage into that world, the bowl which had caught on the edges of the opening. All that remained on the anthill was the round wooden bowl, still bearing traces of the food and the finger-prints of its vanished owner, symbol of his body and of his human nature, as, in the animal world, is the skin which a reptile has shed ...
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