Editing Mount Ida

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In [[Greek mythology]], two [[sacred mountain]]s are called '''Mount Ida''', the "Mountain of the Goddess": [[Mount Ida (Crete)|Mount Ida]] in [[Crete]], and [[Mount Ida (Turkey)|Mount Ida]] in the ancient [[Troad]] region of western [[Anatolia]] (in modern-day [[Turkey]]), which was also known as the ''[[Mount Ida (Turkey)|Phrygian Ida]]'' in classical antiquity and is mentioned in the ''[[Iliad]]'' of [[Homer]] and the ''[[Aeneid]]'' of [[Virgil]]. Both are associated with the [[mother goddess]] in the deepest layers of pre-Greek myth, in that Mount Ida in Anatolia was sacred to [[Cybele]], who is sometimes called ''Mater Idaea'' ("Idaean Mother"),<ref>Maarten Jozef Vermaseren and Eugene Lane. 1996 ''Cybele, Attis and Related Cults: Essays in Memory of M.J. Vermaseren'', (Leiden: Brill), {{ISBN|90-04-10196-9}}, {{ISBN|978-90-04-10196-8}}</ref> while  [[Rhea (mythology)|Rhea]], often identified with Cybele, put the infant [[Zeus]] to nurse with [[Amalthea (mythology)|Amaltheia]] at Mount Ida in Crete. Thereafter, his birthplace was sacred to Zeus, the king and father of Greek gods and goddesses.<ref>Homer ''Odyssey'' xix. 172; Plato, ''Laws'' i. 1; Diodorus Siculus, v. 70; Strabo x. p. 730; Cicero, ''De natura deorum'',  iii. 21</ref>

==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>

==Mount Ida, Crete==
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[[File:Idian-Cave-20070814-059834.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Mouth of Idaean Cave, Crete]]

[[Crete]]'s '''Mount Ida''' is the island's highest summit, sacred to the Goddess [[Rhea (mythology)|Rhea]], and wherein lies the legendary [[Cave of Zeus|Idaean cave]] ({{lang|grc|Ἰδαίον ἅντρον}})), in which baby [[Zeus]] was concealed from his father [[Cronus]]. It is one of a number of caves believed to have been the birthplace or hiding place of [[Zeus]].<ref>{{cite book|title=A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology|date=c. 1873|publisher=John Murray|url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0104%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DZ%3Aentry+group%3D2%3Aentry%3Dzeus-bio-1|editor=William Smith}}</ref> The [[Kouretes]], a band of mythical warriors, undertook to dance their wild, noisy war dances in front of the cave, so that the clamour would keep Cronus from hearing the infant's crying. On the flank of this mountain is the [[Amari Valley]], the site of expansion by the ancient settlement at [[Phaistos]].<ref>C.Michael Hogan. 2007. [http://themodernantiquarian.com/site/10857/phaistos.html#fieldnotes  ''Phaistos Fieldnotes'', The Modern Antiquarian]</ref> Its modern name is [[Psiloritis]]. The surrounding area and mountain used to be thickly wooded.

==Mount Ida, Anatolia==
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{{see also|Iliad|Aeneid|Sibylline Books|Cybele}}

From the Anatolian '''Mount Ida''', [[Zeus]] was said to have abducted [[Ganymede (mythology)|Ganymede]] to [[Mount Olympus|Olympus]]. The topmost peak is ''[[Gargarus]]'', mentioned in the ''[[Iliad]]''. Zeus was located in the Altar of Zeus (near Adatepe, [[Ayvacık, Çanakkale|Ayvacık]]) during the [[Trojan War]]. The modern [[Turkish language|Turkish]] name for Mount Ida, Turkey, is ''Kaz Dağı,'' pronounced {{IPA|tr|kaz daːɯ|}}. In the [[Aeneid]], a shooting star falls onto the mountain in answer to the prayer of [[Anchises]] to [[Jupiter (mythology)|Jupiter]] (the Roman equivalent of Zeus).

==See also==
* [[Sacred mountains]]

==Notes==
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==External links==
{{NSRW Poster|Ida, Mount|Mibora minima}}
*[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/ Perseus Website: Ida]

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