NYT article about excavations at Mount Lykaion, in the region of Greece known as Arcadia. Digging in a sactuary to Zeus, archeologists have come across the remains of sacrifices estimated to date from around 3000 BCE, nearly a millenium before the arrival of the Greek-speaking peoples who established Zeus as the pre-eminent deity of the land.The article makes some interesting observations about how cultures adopt and transform pre-existing religious traditions as their own.
My favorite line: "We went from B.C. to B.Z., before Zeus."
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