In the ancient ages, there was a lake called Salmakis which is known as Bardakçı Bay today. A beautiful fairy used to live at this lake and her name was the same as the lake, Salmakis.
One day, while she was bathing in the lake of Salmakis, she saw the son of Aphrodite and Hermes, Hermaphrodite whom she fell in love with instantly. However, Hermaphrodite refused her.
Salmakis, painfully, pleaded to the gods to unite them together.
The gods mercied her and united them in one body.
After that day, Salmakis and Hermaphrodite lived in one body that has two genders.