He was here 3,000 years ago. Who was he? He was the king of Pattina-Unqi, one of the post-Hittite Anatolian states and he lived in the place we call Antakya today. Our great-grandfather “ŞUP Pİ LU Lİ U MA”.
He told us:
It is fertile here, if you work hard, you will be rewarded; I have been holding this spike in my hand for 3000 years for nothing. Of course, if necessary, I am not afraid to fight for my home, my motherland, my shelter. I am not dependent on anyone, I both produce and fight. I put two lions snarling angrily at each other on my wrist to say that everything exists with its opposite.
But the bodies of the lions were one and they were more than brothers. So you have to fight with yourself before others, you have to find the enemy in your body, you have to know yourself. Don’t blame it all on the earthquake/fate. Here is my location, I have been here for thousands of years and in fact I have always been here.
If you don’t believe me, look at the spirals inside my big hat. I am not a straight line; I came from infinity and I am going to infinity.
True, this city has collapsed on me many times, but each time I overcame the obstacles with love, I was reborn, sometimes expanding from the inside out, sometimes from the outside in, returning to the essence. Yes, I was surprised, I blinked my eyes at the sight I saw. I had not left this city like this, but our hope, like us, comes from the infinite and expands outward, unstoppable.
We died again, but we are still here Hatay! We are in our essence, we are in the queen of the East and we will raise the light again with all its colors from the easternmost part of the Mediterranean.