The nymph, protectress of the island.
A very intseresting notion. Each city has a divine being connected to and interested in protecting it. Its also interesgting that its nkot called a god but only a nymph. What mighgt this mean? Maybe its less popular and universal in that its purview is a mere city vis a vis a god woukd effect some phenomenon over the entire world like the motion of the sun of falling of all rain.
Maybe too this is why the nymph doesnt have a name independant of the city.
i wonder if ift was thought that each nymph somehow begat the original inhabitants of their particular city. Like how athenians were thought to have arose from the onanism during a rape of one god against another. This seems likely by pindars appelation here of mother. This is a fun explanation of the origin of the species of men
