The second nymph named Ida or Idaea was a female divinity from the Phrygian Mount Ida in Troad.
This nymph, called in the ancient literature the Idean Mother, was associated with the Mother Goddess, because she was deeply related to some local mythological events.
Such stories tried to connect these older local pre-Hellenic beliefs in nature divinities (which were identified with the mountains, the rivers, the trees and the springs) with the Greek Olympian religion and its basic myths.
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