The name 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 (AR Zf 1 and 2, and KY Za 2), and may refer to mount Ida or to the mother goddess of Ida ( Ἰδαία μάτηρ). In Iliad (Iliad, 2.821), (Ida) means wooded hill, and reminds the mountain worship in the Minoan mother goddess religion. The name is related with the nymph Idaea, who according to Diodor was the mother of the ten Kuretes. 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). Proclus considered it as the mount of the Ideas, whence its etymology.