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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;enochian, post: 1700503, member: 39576&quot;]A gem in the Museum of Castelvecchio (Verona) depicts the god Sandas of&nbsp; Tarsos with his terrible animal: the lion-goat. On the reverse side&nbsp; there is the inscription YOYO. The epigraphical and archaeological&nbsp; evidence from Anatolia, from Hittite to Hellenistic times, proves that&nbsp; Sandas was a underworld god protecting tombs and sending pestilences&nbsp; when angry. He was appeased by offerings to his terrible ministers, who&nbsp; were usually seven. Similarly Nergal or Erra (similar to Sandas) in&nbsp; Mesopotamia, and Sekhmet in Egypt had seven animal-headed terrible&nbsp; ministers, who were able to bring pestilences and death. A Hittite&nbsp; inscription mentions Yaya as Sandas&#039; female partner. Her name is very&nbsp; similar to the Yoyo on the Verona gem. Sandas was identified with&nbsp; Heracles because of his relations with the underworld realms and his&nbsp; warlike features. The lion-goat of Tarsus was the model of Greek&nbsp; Chimaera. In fact the myth of Bellerophon took its place in Lycia and&nbsp; Cilicia. In Hellenistic age the original form of this monster was better&nbsp; known and therefore we find its typical features in Hellenistic and&nbsp; Roman sculptures and reliefs.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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