Men (also known as Men Askaelos, Mensis) was a god worshipped in the western interior parts of Anatolia as the savior of poor, ill, defenceless people and as a god who gives health and favor by the mystic power of his symbol the crescent moon. The roots of the Men cult go back to Mesopotamia in the fourth millennium BC. Although ancient writers present the god as a local god of the Phrygians, they are not natives of Anatolia and in their motherland -- Thracia and Southeast Europe -- traces of this belief cannot be found.