Mount Lykeon was the most sacred mountain of the ancient Arcadians worshipped as the birthplace of Zeus. The findings arising from recent excavations date the first bethel to the Early Hellenic Period (3000 BC). There used to be a bethel of Zeus and Pan as well as a hippodrome, a theater and guest houses. Lykea is a race mounted annually in honor of Zeus. Haply, in the devotional rituals infants were sacrificed that were eaten later by the followers hidden among other foods. The believer, who would eat it, would turn into a wolf for 9 years and, then, turn back into his human form 9 years later if he hadn't eaten human flesh in the meanwhile. Otherwise, he remained a wolf for eternity. At the roots of the mountain, there was a town, Lykosoura, which was the first town, built in the world according to Pausanias. The altar of Zeus, the bethel of Pan, the stadium and the hippodrome, where Lykea took place, have been unearthed.