A verifiable area that had a place with the nation of Commagene, a little, free Armenian country that was laid out in 162 B.C., is Mount Nemrut (otherwise called Nemrut Dagi in Turkish). This was the point at which the once-strong Seleucid Realm was starting to go to pieces, permitting a locales of its domain to evade the Seleucids’ concentrated rule. The fourth and conceivably most notable ruler of Commagene, Antiochus I Theos (the “God Lord”), developed an old complex on Mount Nemrut, which is arranged in the eastern Taurus mountain range in southern Turkey, near the town of Adiyaman.
From 70 BC to 36 BC, Ruler Antiochus I controlled Commagene. He was an extremely unconventional ruler. He professed to be plunged from both the Persian Lord Darius the Incomparable and the Greek winner Alexander the Incomparable on his dad’s side, combining the west and the east. In any case, what stood apart most about this lord was his immovable pride and swelled self image. Antiochus I laid out a regal clique in the Greek rendition of the religion Zoroastrianism with the conspicuous expectation of being revered as a divine being after his passing. He professed to have a unique contact with the divine beings.
By associating the Commagene year, which up until that point had been founded on the developments of the Sun and Moon, to the Sothic-Anahit (Star of Sirius) and Hayk (Star of Orion) cycle involved by the Egyptians as the reason for their schedule, Ruler Antiochus I established the groundwork for a calendrical change. This would suggest that Antiochus knew all about Hermeticism, while perhaps not completely started.
On Mount Nemrut (Nemrud Dagi), a 2,100-meter-high mountain, Antiochus requested the development of a wonderful sacred sanctum so that individuals might come and petition him.at request to be comparable to the divine beings, Antiochus believed his holy place should be at a grand and loved area that was noticeable to the whole realm and sufficiently high for everybody to recall him. The burial chamber safe-haven, which has a pyramid-formed hill of stone chips with a perimeter of 145 m and a level of 50 m, was developed in 62 BC. The east and west patios have two old processional ways that branch out of them. Indeed, even without anyone else, the size of the structure and the work concentrated nature of its development are essential. By and by, this landmark varies from most different superstructures in that it reflects social retention.
The hierothesion, or “normal abode of the multitude of divine beings close to the sublime privileged positions,” was what Antiochus himself named Mount Nemrut. On the eastern and western slants of the hill, one can see this undertaking to gather every one of the perceived divine beings on Mount Nemrut. Five huge limestone sculptures are organized straight on Mount Nemrut’s eastern porch. On the western porch, an equal column of sculptures might be seen. These situated figures are encircled by two watchman creature sculptures: a bird toward one side and a lion on the other. They are confronting away from the tumulus.
An engraving depicts the top as a blessed cemetery where Antiochus, the “God Lord,” would be covered and join different divine beings in the heavenly domain.
