Tradition

Tradition Long after these oral traditions developed, the spoken and sung were put into written form. The main reason for doing so was that they not be lost or altered, thereby losing or misrepresenting the whole past of a people. In written form, these traditions have provided the world with some of its greatest literary classics: the 'Epic of Gilgamesh' (see Babylonia and Assyria), written, traditions, form, testament, stories, oral, old, world, whole, variety, thereby, tales, sung, spoken, songs, riddles, reason, put, provided, proverbs, praise, portion, poetry, people, past, one, murder, much, misrepresenting, main, lyric, love, lost, losing, long, literary