MAN, THE GOD OF THE PHRYGIANS.

Man was a god worshipped in the Western interior parts of Anatolia. The roots of the cult go back to Mesopotamia in the 4th millennium BC. Lunar symbolism dominates his iconography. The god is usually shown with a crescent like open horns on his shoulders, and he is described as the god presiding over the months. The Augustan History has the Roman Emperor Cara-Calla venerate Lunus at Carrhae, this has been taken as a Latinized name for Man. The same source records the local opinion that anyone who believes the Deity of the Moon to be feminine shall always be subject to women, whereas a man who believes that he is masculine will dominate his wife.
He is depicted with a Phrygian cap and a belted tunic. He may be accompanied by bulls and lions in religious artwork. The iconography partly recalls that of Mithras, who also wears a Phrygian cap and is commonly depicted with a bull and symbols of the sun and moon. In later times, Man have been identified with both Attis of Phrygia and Sabazius of Thrace; he may shared a common origin with Zoroastrian lunar divinity Mah.
In antiquity, Phrygia was a kingdom in the West Central part of Anatolia, centered on the Sakarya River. The River is the 3rd longest river in Turkey. The source of the river is the Bayat Plateau, which is located to the NorthEast of Afyon. Before reaching the Black Sea, it is joined by the Porsuk Creek.
In the Middle ages, the Valley of the Sakarya was the home of the Sogut tribe, which went to establish the Otto-Man Empire.
During the heroic age of Greek mythology, several legendary kings were Phrygians: Gordian Knot would later be cut by Alexander the Great, Midas who turned whatever he touched to gold, and Mygdon who warred with the Amazons.
According to Homer's Illiad, the Phyrgians were closed allies of the Trojans and participants in the Trojan War against the Achaeans. Phrygian power reached its peak in the late 8th century BC under Midas who dominated most of Western and Central Anatolia and rivaled Assyria and Urartu for power in Eastern Anatolia. Midas was also the last independent King of Phrygia before its capital was sacked by Cimmerians around 695 BC. Phrygia then became subject to Lydia, and then successively to Persia, Alexander and his Hellenistic successors, Perg-Amon, Rome, and Byzantium. Phrygians were gradually assimilated into other cultures by the early medieval era, and after the Turkish conquest of Anatolia the name Phrygia passed out of usage as a territorial designation.
The name of the earliest known mythical king was Nan-Na-Cus (Aka An-Na-Cus. This king resided at Iconium, the most Eastern city of the Kingdom of Phrygia at that time; and after his death, at the age of 300 years, a great flood overwhelmed the country, as had been foretold by an ancient oracle. The next king mentioned was called Man-Is or Mas-Des. Because of his splendid exploits, great things were called "Man-Ic"in Phrygia. Thereafter the Kingdom was fragmented among various kings. One of the kings was Tanta-Lus who ruled over the North Western Region of Phrygia around Mount Sipy-Lus.
Tanta-Lus was endlessly punished in Tarta-Rus, because he allegedly killed his son Pelops and sacrificially offered him to the Olympians, a reference to the suppression of human sacrifice. Tanta-Lus was also falsely accused of stealing from the lotteries he had invented.
Before the Trojan war, a Phrygian farmer became king fulfilling an oracular prophecy The kingless Phrygians had turned for guidance to the oracle of Saba-Zios (Zeus to the Greeks) at Tel-Mis-Sus (capital of Phrygia), in the part of Phrygia that later became part of Galatia.
They had been instructed by the oracle to acclaim as their king the first man who rode up to the god's temple in a cart. That "Man"was Gord-Ias, a farmer, who dedicated the ox-cart in question, tied to its shaft with the Gord-Ian Knot.