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Lycaeus




practiced on its summit. This seems to have involved a Human Sacrifice , and a
feast in which the man who received the portion of a human victim was changed to
a Wolf , as Lycaon had been after sacrificing a child. The altar of Zeus consists
of a great mound of ashes with a retaining wall. It was said that no shadows
fell within the precincts; and that any who entered it died within the year.