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          Apollon is the god of mythology, the god of music, arts, sun, fire and poetry. He can also transfer his pre-eminence ability to other people. Kassandra, the son of Zeus and Leto, is the twin brother of Artemis. Blonde and very handsome. The Greek, whose origin was Greek, passed the Roman mythology with the name Apollo. Apollon, one of the most important gods in mythology, is of Anatolian origin.

People who lived in centuries before Christ used to believe in things like magic, fortune telling, and prophecy. Moreover, these beliefs were the most important factor driving their lives. However, their religious sensitivity was quite complex and varied. They assumed that they were a separate god of everything useful and beautiful. For example, the god of the sea was Poseidon, the god of love Eros, the god of wine Dionysus, and the god of light and sun, Apollo.

According to the legend, God Apollo came to Brankhos, who was a shepherd in Didyma. He loves his pure spirit and gentle approach, and Apollo teach him the secrets of wisdom (the prophecy). The shepherd Brankhos, who aims to transfer the divine secrets to the people, establishes the first temple on behalf of his god Apollo near the bay forest and water source where the temple of Apollo exists today.

In time, the Brankhos descendants were called 'Brankhids'. For many years, the descendants of this line have ruled the Temple of Apollo. Hence 'Didyma' for centuries; 'Brankhidai', also called Brankhidler Country.

The Temple of Apollo, one of the excavators of the Aegean, was wanted to be built as a similar artifact of the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, in the name of Apollo's sister. After all, they were twin brothers and their temples should be the same. If the ancient architects had attained these goals, there would be mentioned today the 8 Wonders of the World, which will be the Temple of Apollo in Didim.

Historians and earth scientists unite in the thesis that the biggest destruction of the Temple of Apollo in 1493 was caused by a major earthquake affecting the entire Aegean geography. The temple, which suffered great damage in this earthquake that occurred 40 years after the conquest of Istanbul by Fatih Sultan Mehmet, became a ruin by abandoning its own state in the following centuries. However, the small settlement established by the local people who acquired the fertile land around the temple formed the foundations of the Yoran Village, which would gradually become a Greek village in the following centuries.

Starting from the sacred gate of the ancient Miletus, the 'Sacred Way' was as far as possible to reach the port of Panormos of Didim (now known as Mavişehir) following the seaside. From there, he curled into the south and ended up in front of the Temple of Apollo and the presentation terrace. The length of the 'Sacred Way', which was approximately 16.5 kilometers long between Miletus and the Temple of Apollo, ranged from 5 to 7.5 meters. The first 5-6 kilometer section of the 'Sacred Way' before reaching the Temple of Apollo; Apollo was built as a magnificent route decorated with statues of priests and nuns, sitting lions and sphinx figures (similar to those near Egyptian pyramids).

Didim, the blue eye of the Aegean, during the archaic period about 100 years until the rule of the priests known as Branchidler remained under. Especially from this date on, the fame of the temple had covered the whole of the ancient Front Asia. According to the famous Greek historian Herodotus - Heredotus, BC VII. In the 19th century, Necho, king of Egypt, and Kroisos, king of Lydia, presented a very precious gift to Didim, which had a sacred temple. Right next to us, Herodotus, who was born in Halicarnassos near Bodrum and referred to as the 'Father of History', writes in his work that King Kroisos sent gifts to the temple of Didyma in the same way that he sent gifts worthy and worth of gold.

The first temple belonging to the Archaic Didim, according to the excavations found in BC. VII. It is a temenost meaning 'land dedicated to gods'. It is assumed that the first temple, together with the colonnades made about 100 years later, has a structure which is not very majestic. B.C. VI. In the first half of the century, the temple of Apollo began to be transformed into a large temple in the most brilliant period of the Ion world. The architectural structure of this archaic temple was influenced by the temples of Ephesus and Samos, which were determined to have been built in the same period.

The temple of Apollo, the prophetic center, is a temple of 85,15 x 38,39 meters, ie a temple with a double row of columns around it. There are 21 double row columns on the sides, 8 on the front and 9 columns on the back. There are 104 columns surrounding the inner courtyard, called 'naos', which will be used by the public for worship, and a total of 112 columns with 8 columns in 'naos'. The sacred courtyard was surrounded by a 17.5 m high wall, giving the impression of being covered. However, the high costs and the ongoing wars did not allow the construction of the temple.

The temple's dimensions were enough to build the temple of Artemis at Ephesus and the Heraion Temple on the island of Samos. It was also very magnificent in terms of the height of its columns. Each column was 19,60 meters high, including pedestals and headers. There were two half columns at the entrance of the main hall where prophets accepted their guests and two columns inside the hall. Unlike the others, these columns were leafy, butterflyed, crowned as 'corinthian'.

The temple, which has a wide tree laurel, was built on a seven-step, 3.5-meter high pedestal and had 14-step entrance stairs on the middle side. In fact, it is clear that a structure of this size cannot be easily completed. Therefore, the construction of BC. III. and II. century, even a part of the Roman period. Despite all this, the temple has not been fully completed according to its original plans.

Built about 2,600 years ago, this sacred courtyard measures 53,63 x 21,71 meters and has a height of more than 25 meters. At the western end of the sacred courtyard there was a smaller structure (sekos) with a cult statue. To the east of the sacred courtyard was a staircase with a width of 15.20 meters and 24 steps. This staircase was opened to the hall where the prophecies were written and told, and this was a 20-meter-high marble hall with 14,04 x 8,74-meter roof. The estimated weight of each of the monolithic marble blocks on the floor of this hall is 70 tons. The cost of the columns of the Temple of Apollo at that time was 40,000 drakhme / drahmi. Hundreds of workers working in the construction were paid 2 drakhme daily.

 

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