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Why might the Babylonians want to tell and record their story of the creation of the world?

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Answer: myths of origin are crucial for maintaining social order. Society needs it - even in secular societies. Ancient peoples used myths as a way how to understand a world, universe, society. Myths of origin were necessary for the order of things. In Babylonian case as well ....many of these myths were of Akkadian and Sumerian origin.

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