The Oldest Story Ever Told: Unraveling Orion

Jared Barlament
Interfaith Now
Published in
24 min readFeb 6, 2021

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The Magdalenian Mystery

We in today’s techy age tend to forget just how similar our ancestors were to modern men. It’s understandable, of course; the world we live in today is mind-bogglingly different than the world of just a century ago. To contemplate the world before the birth of civilization is beyond just about all of us. And still, so it seems, we can connect the same dots and think up of the same stories our hunter-gatherer ancestors. Seven sisters standing together for eternity. A crown in the north. A cross in the south. And…

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Jared Barlament
Interfaith Now

Author and essayist from Wisconsin studying anthropology and philosophy at Columbia University.