Joe Geronimo Martinez
UNESCO World Heritage Centrethis is the Unesco official site.
The tomb is of Antiochus I so he would have been a descendent of Alexander the Great when his empire collapsed.
According to the UN the tomb itself has not been found. But it would be likely to be a mausoleum
Antiochus I Theos of Commagene
Looking at Antiochus himself, he is unlikely to have gold
he wasnt conquered by the Romans and that usually involved a pay off.
The area was at the edge of Parthian territory. The Romans spent a long time in a genocidal war against the Parthians a deal would have been unlikely
The truth is no one knows what is under the site for sure.
Antiochus is a weird figure: he wanted to set up a religious cult
think of a 0BC
L Ron Hubbard. The area has mystical inscriptions over it semi- religious statues.
everybody get your tin-foil hats on
The turkish entries for these pages have disappeared from Wiki.
Antiochus practised astrology of a very esoteric kind, and laid the basis for a calendrical reform, by linking the Commagene year, which till then had been based on the movements of the Sun and Moon, to the Sothic-Anahit (Star of Sirius) and Hayk(Star of Orion) cycle used by the Egyptians as the basis of their calendar. This would suggest that Antiochus was knowledgeable about, if not fully initiated into Hermeticism.
this is from the Wiki, but it is absolutely astounding for those interested in the esoteric.
This would link him directly to the bible story at least the three wise men.
But its even creepier than that. I am going to check out what I can but if you place this with the archeology. at around 60 BC and consider the translation of
Hayk as "our father" and Anahit as "love"
then every Hermeticist should be rushing to the site.
The basic symbolism is God is love
reborn.
I have added Wicca to the topics. It would be good to here from a Wiccan or someone with Hermetic Knowledge.
Its a mystery.
See question on Quora
Credit: way-of-witch.blogspot.com
