Idaea (nymph)

Idaea (Ἰδαία) was according to Diodor the mother of the ten Kuretes .. The Kuretes or Kouretes (Κουρῆτες) were dancers who venerated the mother of the gods Rhea, the Cretan counterpart of Cybele.

The name is propably related with Mount Ida in Crete; and Mount Ida in the ancient Troad region of western Anatolia (in modern-day Turkey). In Iliad (Iliad, 2.821), Ἵδη (Ida) means wooded hill, and reminds the mountain worship in the Minoan mother goddess religion. Three inscriptions in Linear A, which represents the Minoan language , bear just the name i-da-ma-te (AR Zf 1 and 2, and KY Za 2). The inscriptions may refer to the mother goddess of Ida ( Ἰδαία μάτηρ) , however Linear A has not yet been deciphered.

Idaea was also an epithet of Cybele. Romans knew Cybele as Magna Mater ("Great Mother"), or as Magna Mater deorum Idaea ("great Idaean mother of the gods"), equivalent to the Greek title Meter Theon Idaia ("Mother of the Gods, from Mount Ida").

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