Conquered Associated with rule and conquest of the seven seas and especially with the mediterraneanPhoenicians because of familiarity with the island of Phut (Bantu). Under the rule of Solomon, and are supposed the tribe was important in directing voyages through the Indian Ocean to Tarshish (from whom some Philipinians descend) from a port in Madegascar. Their genetic marker is Y-chromosomal Haplogroup O common among people now calling themselves Bnei Menashe. The name change is because the coasts of Dan came under the Hegemony of Manasseh whose name they eventually adopted. Their "totem animal" has always been the serpentine Dragon or Leviathan. It may be that this is how certain passover traditions came to have settled as far as Portugal and even Ulsterappear in Chinese spring-festivals.