The Mythology Pontic – Kaskas describes the myths, legends and stories of Pontic Anatolia.
The Gasgas (or Kaskas, Casqueans, or Kašku in cuneiform) are a people of northern Anatolia in the 2nd millennium BC. Nicknamed “linen weavers and pig breeders”, they settled in the valleys located between the northern border of the kingdom Hittite and the Black Sea, apparently having a semi-nomadic lifestyle. The Gasgas do not have a written language and do not build cities. They are not known by archaeology.
Our knowledge of this people comes above all from sources Hittites found in Hattusha, the capital of this kingdom, in particular royal chronicles and texts containing diplomatic agreements concluded with Gasga tribes.
Initially populated by Casqueans, the Pont saw colonies rise on its coast greek of Sinope, Amaseia, Cerasus and Trebizond in the sixth century BC. J.-C.
