There were several sites. At the summit on Mount Lykaion Pausanias saw the ash-pile altar to ZeusFor primitive ash mounds at sacrificial sites, see W. Kramer, "Prähistorische Brandopferplätze" Helvetica antiqua (1966) pp. 111-22, noted by Burkert 1983. but, as attending the rite was impossible, he was obliged to "let it be as it is and as it was from the beginning".Pausanias. Description of Greece, 8.38.7.
