Editing Mount Ida (section)

==Etymology==
The term ''Ida'' (Ἴδη) is of unknown origin. Instances of ''i-da'' in [[Linear A]] probably refer to the mountain in Crete. Three inscriptions bear just the name ''i-da-ma-te'' ([[Arkalochori|AR]] Zf 1 and 2, and [[Kythera|KY]] Za 2), and may refer to ''mount Ida'' <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pinterest.com/pin/464222674075676971/|title=Pin on Minoan Linear A, Mycenaean Linear B, Arcado-Cypriot Linear C: Progressive Grammar and Vocabulary|website=Pinterest}}</ref> or to the ''mother goddess of Ida'' ( Ἰδαία μάτηρ). In [[Iliad]] (Iliad, 2.821),  ''{{lang|grc|Ἵδη}}'' (Ida) means "wooded hill", the name recalling the [[mountain worship]] which was a feature of the [[Minoan civilization|Minoan]] mother goddess religion.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Nagy|first=Gregory|title=Greek-Like Elements in Linear A|journal=Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies|issue=4|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=1963|pages=200|url=http://grbs.library.duke.edu/article/download/11991/4031}} p.200</ref> The name is related to that of the [[nymph]] [[Idaea]], who, according to [[Diodorus Siculus]], was the mother of the ten [[Kuretes]].<ref>F.Schachermeyer(1964) ''Die Minoische Kultur des alten Kreta''p. 266 . [[W. Kohlhammer]] Stuttgart</ref> [[Idaea]] was also an epithet of [[Cybele]]. The 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").<ref>Beard, p.168, following Livy 29, 10 - 14 for Pessinos (ancient Galatia) as the shrine from which she was brought.  Varro's  ''Lingua Latina'', 6.15 has [[Pergamum]]. Ovid Fasti 4.180-372 has it brought directly from Mt Ida. For discussion of problems attendant on such precise claims of origin, see Tacaks, in Lane, pp. 370 - 373.</ref>   [[Proclus]] considered it as the "mount of the [[Theory of Forms|Ideas]]", whence its etymology.<ref>Anne D. R. Sheppard, ''Studies on the 5th and 6th essays of Proclus' Commentary on the Republic'', Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht in Göttinger, 1980, [https://books.google.com/books?id=lt1O7nUYA1YC&pg=PA66 p. 66].</ref>