The name Idaea is toponymic, literally 'she who comes from Ida' or 'she who lives on Ida,' and is attached in the sources to multiple female figures rather than a single unified being (Source 1). Traditions recorded include: an Idaea who is a nymph mothered by or resident on Mount Ida and who by the river-god Scamander mothers King Teucer; an Idaea described as the daughter of Dardanus and the wife of Phineus who falsely accused her stepsons, causing their imprisonment and torture; an Idaea invoked as an epithet of Cybele, linking the great mother goddess to Phrygian Mount Ida; an Idaea who, by the shepherd Theodorus, is mother of the Erythraean Sibyl Herophile and gives birth in a grotto; and versions in which Idaea is mother of the Kuretes by an 'earlier Zeus' in Phrygian tradition, or mother of Cres or Asterion in other localized genealogies (Source 1). These accounts show the name functioning to localize maternal or cultic origins to Mount Ida (Cretan or Phrygian) and to anchor genealogies or cultic groups.
No consistent physical description or iconography for 'Idaea' as an individual appears in the cited materials; the sources do not preserve specific visual attributes for the various figures bearing the name (Source 1). Where Idaea functions as a nymph or as an epithet of Cybele, the textual record supplied names roles and localizations (births in grottoes, mountain sanctuaries) but does not provide detailed depictional material within the excerpts given (Source 1).
The sources do not attribute discrete supernatural powers (e.g., shapeshifting or possession) to a single, unified Idaea. Instead, the cited traditions record role-based behaviors: as a nymph or maternal toponymic figure she begets founders or ritual lineages (mother of Teucer; mother of the Kuretes; mother of sibyl Herophile); as the wife of Phineus she functions as an antagonistic stepmother who 'falsely accused her stepsons,' precipitating their imprisonment and torture; as an epithet of Cybele the name marks geographic cultic identity at Mount Ida rather than enumerating specific cultic powers (Source 1). These roles are generative, genealogical, or narrative rather than described as individual magical abilities in the provided sources.
Scamander
Scamander (Greek Σκάμανδρος), also called Skamandros or Xanthos, is the river-god of the river that flowed around Troy in Greek myth. A son of Oceanus and Tethys in Hesiod's genealogy (with an alternate account naming Zeus), he is both the divine personification of the river and an active agent in mythic narrative, most notably intervening on the side of the Trojans in the Trojan War.
Cybele
An Anatolian mother goddess (Phrygian Matar Kubileya) whose cult centers on mountains, city protection, fertility, and wild nature; adopted and reinterpreted by Greek and Roman religion where she became associated with ecstatic rites, a eunuch priesthood (the Galli), and the Roman Magna Mater cult.
*Perkʷūnos
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*Péh₂usōn (reconstructed)
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57 Mnemosyne
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Aba (disambiguation / name-form)
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Abaddon
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Aban Yasht
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Abarbarea
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Abas
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Abath
No corroborated folkloric entity named "Abath" is documented in the provided sources. The string appears in the supplied material only as a surname/personal name in Aruban/Dutch-Caribbean archival records and as an unrelated taxonomic or encyclopedic hit; no mythic attributes, origin stories, rituals, or apotropaic practices for an entity called Abath are present in the documents reviewed.
Abatur
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Abatwa (Twa / Batwa)
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Abderus
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- [1]Idaea (Wikipedia article). Wikipedia, 'Idaea' (summary of mythic figures, etymology, and variant traditions).wiki
- [2]Idaea (Wikidata entry). Wikidata entry noting homonymous usages and identifiers.wiki