..Presently
they reached many-fountained Ida, mother of wild beasts,
and Lectum where they left the sea to go on by
land, and the tops of the trees of the forest.
Iliad book 14th line 284
It is so mentioned about BABABURNU (Cape Lektos or
Lektum) in the unique poetry ILIAD from immortal poem HOMER.
Its history: During the
war of Troia, Troian army gets great superiority
against the armies of Akhaian and Danoes.Cow eyed great HERA
doesn't like this situation.HERA is scared from the great God ZEUS
who ordered to all God and Goddess to be impartial. She thinks How she
can turn the war against Troians A trick is stroke her mind.She
wears nice clothes and has very nice smells to charm ZEUS and
she will make love with ZEUS. When ZEUS gets deep sleep after love,she
turn the war to the side of Akhaian and Danoes.
|
Hera and Zeus |
HERA goes to APHRODITE
and wants to borrow her sexy,charming and enchanted chest
wear.APHRODITE gives it.And than She
crosses mountains ,rivers and seas .She finds God SLEEPShe wants him to help
to get ZEUS to deep sleep. At first SLEEP doesn't accept her. Because
like everybody, SLEEP too is scared from ZEUS so much.But cow eyed
great HERA promise to him to give very famous in beauty PASYTHEA. She
persuades him at last. And each of them crosses the seas,They got
out of the sea from Cape Lektos ,
..Presently
they reached many-fountained Ida, mother of wild beasts,
and Lectum where they left the sea to go on by
land, and the tops of the trees of the forest.
|
Zeus and Apollon |
Aphrodite |
Cape Lektos is metioned in Iliad like this (Lektos
, Lekton)
Again the same unique work Iliad from Homer of Symirna( today IZMIR)
mentioned about CHRYSE in the first lines. CHRYSE is 5 km far
from BABAKALE. CHRYSE is in GÜLPINAR . In ancient time CHRYSE is the
center of prediction and science.Very important temple of
APOLLON SMINTHEUS is in GÜLPINAR.
Hear
me,..., O god of the silver bow, that protects Chryse and holy Cilla and
rulest Tenedos with thy might, hear me oh thou of Sminthe. If I have
ever decked your temple with garlands, or burned your thigh-bones in fat
of bulls or goats, grant my prayer, and let your arrows avenge these my
tears upon the Danans."
(Iliad, I, 37-42, Samuel Butler) |
Apollon |
In the ILIAD, the immortal epic of Homer
of Smyrna (Izmir), greatest poet of his time, the priest of the temple of
Apollo Smintheus says like above.These lines were addressed to Anatolian god
APOLLON, the son of LETO and ZEUS.
During the war of Troia,the
commander of Danaos AGAMEMNON kidnapes CHRYSES, the daughter of the priest
of the temple of
APOLLON SMINTHEUS.In spite of the all
begging and gifts of the priest, AGAMEMNON doesn't give her back. APOLLON
hears the priest and gets angry.He throws his poisonous arrows to beetwen
all Danaos during the 9 days . Mortal illness(probably plague) tip of the
arrows is spread between Danaos army.Whole Danaos army begin to die.The
commanders of Danaos are gathered right now.They make decision to give
CHRYSES back to his father.Brave ODYSSEUS takes her back himself.
After the first excavations in 1866 the temple was forgotten. Since 1980
Prof. Dr. A Coskun Özgünel conducted the ongoing excavations of
the second largest temple of Apollon (after Didyma) in Anatolia.
Click here for details of
APOLLON SMINTHEUS TEMPLE
