One thing that may reflect on this site (and the fact that it's buried) is that piece about Venus moon ~ an asteroid/comet captured in a 1:1 gravity duet ~ used to be that asteroid may have been locked on the Earth.
It seems that human beings may have seen this asteroid do some interesting things as it crossed Earth's orbit and made its first swing by/past/around Venus.
Recalling that Ishtar is Venus, and the early Babylonians (both the Sumerians and later the Semites) recorded movements of Venus and objects near or intersecting Venus carefully, this little guy may well have come along just in time for folks on Earth to have noticed its "tail" or "hair" and reported the intersecting event in the myth of Inky-do, Gilgamesh' big buddy in the sky. Inky-do, who was tamed by one of Ishtar's handmaidens (a temple prostitute) and brought in from playing with his wild friends (comets elsewhere in the sky), ended up being permanently trapped by Ishtar.
These myths are simply a way to remember the sequence of events and making them explainable to later generations.
One thought I've had is that Inky-do may have made several near passes of the Earth and actually traveled close enough to raise the Mediterranean sufficient for it to be pulled over into the Black Lake as an enormous tsunami. That'd give you a source for the mysterious "waters of the Earth rising to Heaven" in Genesis ~ as well as some of the later details in the stories about Noah ~ as well as an explanation of why the Noah/MaNu stories change structure as you move East toward China. There's less water, it lasts less time, and there's not all this business about water in the sky.
Eventually the orbit crossing comet/asteroid ends up further from Earth and gets linked up with Venus. It eventually disappears.
Now, back to the burial site of all the statuary in Turkey. It's close enough to the Black Sea to have been drowned by mudflows splashed up by the near miss with Inky-do!
Physical pole shift would explain some of the same actions. Actually, something passing close enough to the earth might have triggered a pole shift.
THAT is not something you really want to have happen again. At least not while anyone you love is still alive.
The Mayans also gave great importance to Venus with a calendar devoted especially to is revolution around the sun. I think 260 days. If I recall correctly, this was run concurrently with the solar calendar, with special ceremonies whenever they started on the same day. I think it was about every 50 years. I believe the Jewish Jubilee is also every 50 years. Perhaps they noticed the same phenomenon, or else borrowed it from earlier civilizations.