Mount Ida

Summary

• Two sacred mountains are called Mount Ida in Greek mythology, equally named "Mount of the Goddess." Both sites associated with the Mother Goddess in the deepest layers of pre-Greek myth, are the mountains associated with the Goddess, De (as in the "goddess-mother," De + meter), in an older form Da, "a female deity whose succor and assistance were evoked in archaic formulas by use of this syllable"

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Related Topics

• Greek mythology
• Mother goddess
• The Goddess
• The Mother

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