第六段里:For example, some early societies ceased to consider certain rites essential to their well-being and abandoned them , nevertheless, they retained as parts of their oral tradition the myths that had grown up around the rites and admired them for their artistic qualities rather than for their religious usefulness.
这里their oral tradition the myths that had 是怎么回事啊,中间是少了个标点符号吗?
不少哦 只是语序调换了一下 这个语序你应该比较习惯they retained the myths that had grown up around the rites as parts of their oral tradition and admired them for their artistic qualities rather than for their religious usefulness.