March
14
/ 2020
In the Greek Peloponnese, high atop the summit on Arcadia’s Mount Lykaion (Wolf Mountain) lies an altar at one of the oldest and most revered of all primordial sanctuaries. Towering at nearly 5,000 feet (15 meters), with vistas of the entire Peloponnese peninsula below, it is easy to understand the intimacy the ancients must have felt towards the god of sky and thunder at this sacred site. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"71377","attributes":{"alt":"The Fall of the Titans by Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem (1596–1598) (Public Domain)","class":"media-image","height":"474","style":"width: 610px; height: 474px;","typeof":"foaf:Image","width":"610"}}]] The Fall of the Titans by Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem (1596–1598) ( Public Domain ) Weather God Zeus Purportedly Zeus’ birthplace, experts now believe that the altar may predate Zeus by over 1,000 years, originally paying homage
